There is a terrible trend in technology, where by everyone automatically assumes that your fully familiar with every technological acronym ever conceived.  You were somehow  born with the knowledge of what a compiler is, how to debug  or deep link. All over this blog you will find  all kinds of links and  buttons, and at the very least I thought I should  explain what they are doing, and how you may want to use this blog.

 

Where this blog lives

Well as you may be able to  tell this  site  form part of MSDN – The Microsoft Developer Network, which is a forum that Microsoft has created to communicate with its developer network.  A Blog  contains articles that I write and post. However  one of the  abilities of the Internet is to separate  content from how content is displayed. Its better explained in this video here. In essence its very easy for me to change the style of the content your reading.

How is the blog written

I write this blog on my laptop using a free piece of software called Windows Liver Writer. Which can post blog entries into  many different kinds of blogs ( not just ones by Microsoft) . When  I submit my latest entry to appear on the site – I also tag it with key words – which appear in the top right of the blog, this allows you to click a word in that list and view articles pertaining only to the key word you have clicked.

 

On the right side

On the right side of the screen you can also see the  “blog roll” (no, really!)  where I can insert other references & links. So for example you can see a link to del.icio.us – this is where I keep all my bookmarks from my browser that I choose to share. Similarly you may also bookmark my content to your del.icio.us  collection.