So, assuming anyone’s still reading this blog after the criminal neglect of the last month or so, I’ve been doing some tinkering.

See, in the real world, I’m a Javascript programmer, mostly making user interface dongles for web pages and that sort of thing. I thought it was about time that I gave my blog some love.

In the sidebar you’ll notice a new Twitter gadget that I’ve written. It pulls in stuff I’ve done tweeted and stuff wot other people have twutted at me. This way people can follow the sort of inane conversations that take place, because, you know, that’s what we do in the Web 2.0 world apparently. It’s been tested in Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Internet Explorer 7 and on Mac and PC . If you’re using something else then I’ve basically got my fingers crossed. Let me know if you spot anything weird.

For the technical people who read this blog (everyone else look away now!), it works using WordPress Cron, which pulls in my twitter and mentions feeds every ten minutes and stores them on my server. When someone visits this blog, those feeds are pulled in by the browser, then the HTML is generated automatically by the Javascript in the web page. It makes use of my own custom animation & javascript library – no jQuery – so the whole thing weighs just 4k.

I am, as always, available for third party contracting.