Photo taken this week by mike138. Used under licence. Photos for my Delicious postings like this will be taken from Flickr’s ‘interesting feed’ for the day concerned. Seemed like a good idea.

Postalicious
One of the reasons I stopped posting my Del.icio.us links to this blog was the unpleasant way that it rendered, and the lack of any control I had with regard to timing. This hopefully fixes this.

Meet Mr. TechCrunch UK - ScobleShow
In the latest of my “let’s mention Robert Scoble because he normally adds your mention to his linkblog”, a serious one - Robert interviews the excellent Mike Butcher, who’s looking very well in this video. I last saw Mike a good eight months ago.

Ubuntu
Recently added it to my normal workhorse laptop (an HP Compaq tc4200). I wouldn’t say it worked totally instantly out of the box, but after a little tinkering, it’s doing everything I want except print, which is a good start, and I’ve still Windows on the machine if I need it.

The UCC Journalism Society Conference 2008 (my speaking events)
Delighted to be speaking on “the place of traditional media in the Web 2.0 world” at this conference for University College Cork: under the auspices of my Media UK work.

An ego blog-search
I wanted to see who was blogging about me, but I had problems with Google Blog Search returning my own blog entries. I’ve worked out how to stop that with -blogurl, like so: “James Cridland” -blogurl:james.cridland.net -blogurl:www.flickr.com

v-moda “Vibe Duo” headphones for the iPhone
My Christmas present to myself was an iPhone: and these are just excellent headphones - way better sound than the original crappy ones, and with a headset mike, so I can still use it as a phone. Mind, damn expensive.

ShinyRed - 10 blogs to read in 2008
Nine blogs you might actually want to read; and one ridiculous suggestion. But it’s very nice of them, so thank you, ShinyRed.

Apologies for the radio silence (radio silence! hah!) recently.

I’ve a good excuse - I’ve been on holiday. See above for a clue where.

I’d have posted this before I went on holiday, but BT have broken my broadband at home. At least, this is according to Demon Internet, a company for which “customer service” means putting thick-accented Indians on the end of an 0845 number who tell customers such gems as “the 0208 exchange is currently being worked on by BT”. (Not got a problem with overseas outsourcing, by the way; I am a happy customer of many companies that use it. Demon’s product is great; their customer service, however, isn’t).

Anyway. Hopefully by the time I get home (I’m typing this through a free internet connection somewhere in Australia), all will be well again. I will be blogging about beer, as well as radio in Australia; and might even write some of the blog entries on the plane if I’ve any access to power.

In other news: I’ve switched off my del.icio.us link feed to this blog. I’d prefer my sparkling editorial to be read by visitors (ummm) and not my quick del.icio.us links. If you’d like to continue using my del.icio.us links, you can use this RSS feed in your RSS reader. (It’s also Atom capable).