May 27

linkhandy

linkhandy.com is my personal homepage. It began back in 2003 as foolhandy.sc and had less than ten links. It was originally designed as a one-place-stop for me to access useful sites whilst travelling. Since then it has grown to be either  an incredibly useful place for me to access often-used sites or ‘headache inducing’ depending on your point of view!

The exact position of links changes over time depending on what I’m using the internet for (for example, whilst recently looking to buy a car the car review & sales links were all moved to near th and many links have been deleted due to lack of use, but the basic format has remained the same. Indeed, although I have largely moved onto more modern web-authoring tools linkhandy.com is still updated using FrontPage!

It’s an anachronism in many ways but it’s also the site I use more than any other and the ‘linkwall’ has over the years proved popular with friends and family – I’ve adapted the basic idea for www.alfiewb.com. Some have pointed out that delicious.com is easier to update and manage but…to my eyes it’s not as pretty, and as much to the point it’s not mine.

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Oct 23

Completely unrelated to this post, the first test of the House Kitty Cannon Series took place yesterday.

Often spoken about in hushed, reverent tones I finally played it and now I’m one up after avoiding the venus cat-traps with the scores at 9-9. Updates on the next 6 tests in the best-of-seven series will be posted here.

Possibly.

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Jul 08

OK, so earlier in the week I was wondering why I’d joined Facebook and questioning what its point was as a site. And yet today I sign up to Twitter and with the help of a very useful blog post have added it (as I wish it to be) to this site. I even tweaked the code a little which impressed me in my own simple way. What I do quite like about Twitter is that I can update it from my mobile for the cost of a text, which on my plan essentially means free. With LJ & (the hapless) Vox it had to be MMS messages which cost extra. I’m not sure why I need to be able to update my blog (or a part of it) from anywhere at anytime, but I like the idea that I can…

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