Little Toy Robot

I use del.icio.us a lot. It’s a social bookmarking service. When I see a page I like, instead of bookmarking it in my browser, I activate a del.icio.us Firefox extension to add it to my del.icio.us page (which is del.icio.us/ltr). I can tag the page with descriptive words. Simple as pie!

There are a lot of cool, subtle things that can come out of this. You can subscribe to other peoples’ bookmarks. You can see what other people have bookmarked for a specific tag, like pirates. You can tag things to recommend them to other users. And a bunch of other things which are so simple but so great. I just wanted to point out that I added a little WordPress plugin to the ride side of my main page so you can see the 10 most recent things I’ve added to del.icio.us. It’s a good snapshot of what I’m interested in at any given point.

Click on “more” to go straight to my del.icio.us page, or “feed” to subscribe to my bookmarks as an RSS feed.

So, I’m using WordPress 2.0. WordPress is blogging software that is free. It’s an alternative to Blogger and Moveable Type. It can be used on your own domain, like littletoyrobot.com, or you can use it on the wordpress.com free hosting service, which is like TypePad (which isn’t free) or Blogger.

I had been using WordPress 1.5 so this was an upgrade. I followed the upgrading instructions here and it only took about 10 minutes. It would have been quicker but I had to get up to get myself a beverage. I was thirsty.

The WordPress 2.0 admin interface is much better. It’s slicker, quicker, more attractive, and it makes managing themes a snap. I’ll be playing around with it more in the next few days, but for now I can say that WordPress 2.0 has the official Little Toy Robot Seal of Approval.

This is a test post using the Perfomancing extension for Firefox.