I discovered Twitter a few weeks ago.

It seems far easier and much quicker to keep updated, as (unlike with a blog) I don’t feel I have to write a long post about whatever it is I’m writing about - in fact it limits each "tweet" (the act of sending an update to Twitter) to 140 characters. If your friends/colleagues use Twitter as well, you can "follow" them, which puts all their "tweets" (as well as yours) on one central page for you to keep track of all of them at once.

There are also a vast amount of ways to "tweet" to Twitter - there are huge numbers of GUI clients for Windows, Mac OS (MoodBlast is a good one, and can also update various other sites/statuses at the same time) and Linux, as well as CLI clients for Mac and Linux, add-on/plugin clients for Firefox (my personal favourite is TwitterFox) and other similar apps, and iPhone/iPod Touch (I use Twinkle) applications too. You can also "tweet" on the actual Twitter website, or even using an SMS from your mobile phone!

I’ve added a link to my Twitter to the sidebar, and I may add a small widget to the sidebar as well to show my latest "tweets" at some point.

I’ve just finished upgrading to WordPress 2.5 - a very smooth and easy upgrade, thanks to SVN

The entire dashboard has been redesigned and is far easier to navigate, looks nicer, and is much less buggy or “quirky” than before. Ozh’s drop-down menu plugin is a nice addition to it though.

There are some pretty screenshots on the 2.5 Sneak Peak post on the official WordPress blog.

I have added a new Tags page, which shows which “tags” are the most and least popular using a variety of font sizes and colors. Clicking on a tag shows the post(s) tagged with that particular word.

Tags are essentially keywords for each post - for instance, a post about a visit to a park somewhere may have tags like “bird”, “animal”, “dog”, “tree”, “wildlife” etc. This allows various search engines, as well as other tagging tools or tag-supporting services (such as Flickr) to categorise and then later find your post.

I found out yeserday that Namecheap, my favourite domain name registrar, have a deal on at the moment where you can get a .info domain name for only $1.78. It also comes with a WhoisGuard subscription to hide your name, postal & email addresses and phone numbers from the Whois databases. Hurry, as this offer ends on August 17th!

Anyway, I bought myself one of the domains, as well as renewing my current is-l33t.org, and I might get another one if I can think of anything creative/funny/geeky in time with the remaining money I have in that account. My new domain is is-l33t.info, and is currently just a redirect to this page

- Fr3d

Well my blog has now reached the fine age of one year old today!

I have managed to keep posting (most of the time) this year, as I said I would try to this time last year.
Now I will have see if I manage it this next year too!