Monthly Archives: February 2005

WordPress All Updated

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I’ve finally updated the last of the WordPress blogs I man­age to ver­sion 1.5: this one.
I have, once again, man­aged to keep (almost) all my cus­tom­isa­tions and themes. As I did for the other blogs: Jamie’s The Cat’s Paw and Jan’s Fam­ily His­tree. Plus one other, not yet pub­lic.
I have to thank Podz for hisUpgrad­ing 1.2 to 1.5 page. Lots of use­ful info on there.
I need a new theme now it’s so easy to play about with them, and some more plug ins. Oh! And some more time too.
Note: You may need to refresh your browser to get the stylesheet from the new location.

GeoURL Re-launched

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It looks like Daniel Schaller has re-launched the old GeoURL ser­vice. I say ‘re-launched’ but to be accur­ate he didn’t launch it in the first place. That was Joshua Schachter, who is extremely busy with the very won­der­ful del.icio.us at the moment.

The ori­ginal GeoURL.org has been down for renov­a­tions for over 9 months now. Daniel decided to do some­thing about that and thus GeoURL.info was born.

The ser­vice seems to be off to a slow start; just 108 sign-ups in a month. I’ve signed up to the new ser­vice now and updated my links in the left column. If you want to do the same be aware that the find my neigh­bours url has a slightly dif­fer­ent format. You now have to provide your lat and long in the URL rather than just your registered site name. Here is mine: find my neigh­bours. I’ve set the dis­tance quite high for now as there are so few on it.

Update: Daniel has imple­men­ted the old way of query­ing; by using your site url. See his comment.

UPA North

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I went to the inaug­ural meet­ing of the Usab­il­ity Pro­fes­sion­als Asso­ci­ation — North of Eng­land (UPA North) tonight.

It was a great meet­ing. Andy Swartz and David Hawdale organ­ized and presided. There was a detailed demo of eye track­ing tech­no­lo­gies from Ian James of Eye­Tracker and some good dis­cus­sion from a group of inter­est­ing people.

I caught up with some old friends and met a bunch of new people.
As David poin­ted out, the people who atten­ded had quite a diverse cross-section of job titles and skills, with dif­fer­ent interests and from dif­fer­ent fields. It illus­trated just how all embra­cing the concept of usab­il­ity is. There are a lot of people who have a legit­im­ate interest in mak­ing their products more usable.

We hope to have another get together soon. I’m look­ing for­ward to it.