Having just discovered that someone reads this, I’ve spent an hour or so working out how to put in that little XML button in the sidebar, so that his Trillian Pro can show him new posts without him needing to waste a browser window. Have to say I’m intrigued: there are an awful lot of RSS feeds on clever Lib Dem websites like the PRAI flock that could be useful to watch with something like Trill. Not sure I can afford to upgrade to Pro this month, however.

It’s amazing how much technology is coming together in these blogs. Setting one up is reasonably simple, editing templates is something anyone with a bit of HTML experience can do without a problem. Setting up an RSS feed is also easily possible using www.feedburner.com.

And all of these good websites are offering their services for free. Blogging wouldn’t work without blogger.com, provided free by the Google people. Feedburner is more than happy to take my feed and work wonders with it, for free, and then give me a little button to use to promote myself. Feedburner can’t be getting all that many click-throughs, either, because most users of the feed will be using software that doesn’t show the route the feed takes, just the content.

I’m a little concerned about what would happen if any of these services decided they needed a little more revenue, and that handy service we’ve been having so far now needs to be chargeable.

>sigh<

Have just filled in insurance claim form, and earlier today I took my driving documents to the police station for confirmation. Everything was in order, it would appear, and the policewoman who took the details down (laboriously, by hand, on a carbon copying book) was every bit as helpful and friendly as the policeman who helped on the side of the motorway.

Some of Paul’s friends from his course came around this evening for a drink, starting off here, then popping to Sneinton’s Lord Nelson pub. I sat in the front room being anti-social with my laptop whilst esoteric person-centred debate raged around me.