Use Linkedin as an online CV

For the time being I might get around to assembling some CV details on the hosted service Linkedin, which is good enough for the purpose.

https://www.linkedin.com/e/fps/4582108

If you know me, why not get yourself a Linkedin account and connect with me there.

See more progress on: create an online cv website

Meanwhile

I haven’t fixed the interface to the Wordpress blog yet, I’ll probably upgrade the whole thing to v2.0 when I get a chance, but at least I’ve managed to get back to the postion where I can blog from Flickr or 43things direct to my blogger blog again, which is useful. And this is proof of it.

See more progress on: Find out why xmlrpc.php isn't working on my Wordpress Blog

Worth it, but only just

Blogging every day for a period was worth it because:

• it got some stuff done which needed doing


• I learned a few things about tagging, and about what isn’t working


• it gets easier after a few days


• a couple of people told me they enjoyed reading it

On the other hand it wasn’t worth it because:

• no substantial new links were created


• time consuming


• After the period ended, I didn’t blog much and then left a gap of a whole week.

See more progress on: Blog every day

Placa Miracle del Mocadoret 2

Placa Miracle del Mocadoret 2
Originally uploaded by jovike.

photo by jovike

Continuous cruising licence

From a narrowboat live-aboarder on the Flickr canals groups

Reply to new member: "Dirt Water Fox posted a reply:

Hi Andyrob good to hear that you are a potential Boater :o) And yes the continuous cruising licence is indeed still going, though some regulations have been tightened up by british waterways ie, length of stay at any one place. In simple terms this means that one can moor at any place for up to 14 days only, after that you must move a distance of 14 lock miles. Confused ??? Good, cos we were too.:o)
14 lock miles means a distance of 14 miles or 14 locks, which ever comes first. For example if there are 14 locks in the first 2 mile stretch, then you need only move 2 miles, but if there are no locks then you need to travel the full 14 miles. And just to make it more difficult, you may not return to a previous mooring site for at least 45 days. Happy Boating...:-)"

Web 2.0 Wish for 2006 - Peer 2.0!

J. LeRoy puts his finger on something that has been irking me for three years now. All of these new web services, LMSs, blog tag facilitation, aggregators etc etc are just giving us back something we already had, but under somebody else's control instead of our own. It won't hold up in the long run though, because the physical network is primary and the services which run on it are secondary. So as long as the network is freely accessible, then some kind of grassroots peer to peer archicture will keep reappearing as the service of preference. And that's why people persist with blogging despite all of the difficulties.

Web 2.0 Wish for 2006 - Peer 2.0!: "It's a new year and many around the web are making predictions. I don't know if my Web 2.0 prediction for 2006 is an actual prediction or if it is wishful thinking. I do know I sincerely hope it will happen.

There will be a resurgence of Peer to Peer architectures.

Web 2.0's rhetoric is that it supports collaboration and communication - yet web 2.0's main architecture is centralized. It's all centralized.

The masses are rarely well served by central control.

Your site goes down and your mission critical information is lost. With well developed Peer to Peer application, there's always a backup. With well developed Peer to Peer, you aren't held hostage if your company goes down.

RSS, in fact, can be seen as trying to bridge the gap between the flatness of the web and the communication of peer to peer systems.