I’ve been accused of being too technical in my blog posts, (mainly by nontechies though). Therefore I’ve considered splitting this blog into a techie/work related blog and a personal blog. However would you read one or the other,both, stop reading or even start reading? Comments please.

I did a search for absoblogginlutely on MSN Search this morning and on checking the results found that another blogger has used this blogs name as a category in her blog. Not sure why there is a category called that, but I guess imitation is the best form of flattery 🙂

I’m sure you’ve all heard that blogrolling has been brought out by Tucows, the repository of freeware and shareware. I must admit that I don’t tend to use Tucows as I tend to go to the authors directly, but when they are swamped with downloads then Tucows is a handy place to head to. Anyway, with nearly everyone’s blogging software providing rdf feeds, including the free blogger, is there really any need for a service like blogrolling? Ok, it provides a list on your page of which sites you read – but an opml list can do that, and it also gives a nice star or other symbol by sites that have recently updated (according to weblogs.com) but getting the news from the site direct will also give you that knowledge *including* the content…..So what else does blogrolling give us? I must admit that although I have the list on my page its not updated very often and I don’t use it now to keep up to date with sites that have changed, which I used to before I had a decent RSS reader. I know Iconoblog uses blogrolling, but I’m glad he’s not asked me to explain RSS usage yet 🙂

I’ve added a new blog to my MovableType installation – Absocachinlutely which will have details on Geocaching and everything related to this. This means everything will be in one place and will not clutter up this blog as much. The blog, as usual, has a RSS Feed so it will still be easy to keep up to date with it.

Just noticed that bloggar 3.03 was also released in December, and the author is talking about version 4, which I’ll be able to get on the beta as I’m a premium user (and I’ve now subbed to the rss feed of news so I should find out quicker.

The 2003 Blogging Survey results are in and make interesting reading even if they do focus on advertising a tad too much. I’ve posted a comment on the page too.

Simmons Consulting have a freebee addon,Zempt This to Internet Explorer that allows you to select text in IE (shame its ie only) and then right click and send the text through to zempt to publish.

I’m sure most of you know that blogrolling got hacked/corrupted over the weekend with every link on a blogroll pointing to Laura’s site. Unfortunately there were some sad people who attacked her personally, thinking she had done it. Anyway, looking on a lot of the blogging and comments about this issue, someone pointed out MySQLinks which looks like it does the same sort of thing as Blogrolling, but you host it on your own site using mysql and php includes (I guess). Looks like it will be something I need to take a look at in the near future….

tBLOG is a new site/service that provides you with hosting for a blog. It looks similar in style to blogger/blogspot but there are no adverts that I could see and they also provide RSS 1.0 feeds of the blogs. Looking at the front page I’m not sure how professional the service is as the comment “We know banners are a bother, but at tBLOG our traffic is your traffic, so deal with it.” doesn’t look very encouraging for helpful responses from technical support! From what I’ve seen doing a quick search of the blog there are a lot of female teenagers blogging on there – a completely different circle to the usual blogs that I read.