Geoff Jones

Inveterate dabbler in business, travel, gadgets & life

Author: Geoff

Latest cool web2.0 thingy

Just discovered LibraryThing. Fantastic site that allows you to enter all your books by ISBN number or author and title. First 200 books are free to enter (I’m now at 150) and I would say at least 300 more to go. The really cool thing is that you can generate clouds either by tag, author etc.

This is a tag cloud of my top 50 autors todate. It also generates a widget that you can put on your website that enables anyone to search my library. My widget is on my books page.

Other features let you see how many other users have the same books as you and suggestions based on your current profile.

As always the hardest part is working out what tags to use. Maybe after I have finished reading Ellee’s present “Women Fire, and Dangerous Things by George Lakoff” – What categories reveal about the mind. I might be wiser, although it has to be said its a seriously heavyweight book.

A pretty good take on the bomb scare….

As spoken by Britain’s outspoken Ex- Ambassador to the Central Asian Republic of Uzbekistan, Craig Murray:-

“None of the alleged terrorists had made a bomb. None had bought a plane
ticket. Many did not even have passports, which given the efficiency of
the UK Passport Agency would mean they couldn’t be a plane bomber for
quite some time.”

To me the whole episode smells and not of Acetone either, given that it all happened within 36hours of Tony leaving the country.

As Craig says about John Reid, Home Secretary “A hardened Stalinist with a long term reputation for personal
violence, at Stirling Univeristy he was the Communist Party’s
“Enforcer”,…..Reid was sent to beat up those who deviated from the Party line”

As Craig ends
– Be sceptical. Be very, very sceptical. and I most surely am.

More on it inplausibility here

Microsoft goodies..

Windows Live Writer seems to be getting some good reviews. I thought I would do a search for “Temporary Post Used For Style Detection” in Google, As this is a sign that a blogger has been using it. Today it gives 147 entries.

Here is the search window,  I inserted it merely by doing a paste after grabbing the screen with Alt & Print Scrn. Pretty nifty eh.

Looks as if Microsoft is getting its act together especially with news that they are releasing XNA studio express to enable folks to create their own Xbox games.

Where is Scoble on these two new products? not a peep so far, I guess he really has other things on his mind now. Especially when Maryam is doing posts like this one.

First post using Windows Live Writer

Thanks to Techmeme I’ve just learned about this great new tool from Microsoft, The Windows Live Writer. I just finished making a post to my WordPress blog at www.geoffjones.net. It worked like a dream, especially the easy integration of images. Ellee is just going to love this when she is back from her hols.

My 58th Birthday party (Last year :-()

Geoff 58th Birthday Party - Tunisia

Dead easy to add an image, Enabling easily to put text around the image.

 

 

 

 

Here is a pretty cool feature – drop a map into your blog.