For those of you who’ve emailed to ask why there’s been no link-dumps for the last two days (and anyone else who was curious), it turns out a rogue plug-in problem was squelching the connection from del.icio.us - this has now been fixed, and so we should be back to normal.

OK, so I decided it was high time I tested the waters with Facebook. Many of you will know my stance on social networks being a time-suck that I cannot justify in my life as it stands, but I’ve heard enough well-reasoned contrary viewpoints that I’ve decided to give it a try for a month and see how it goes.

So, make me feel wanted - friend requests to Paul Graham Raven, please!

Actually, my motives are two-fold - this evening I’ve been upgrading my install of Wordpress to the latest iteration (always a lengthy and slightly nerve-wracking process, no matter how many times I do it without a hitch), and while I was waiting for the backups to download, I discovered Wordbook - a plug-in that will allegedly feed my VCTB posts directly into my Facebook profile.

This is a feature that I would have liked to have for MySpazz, but their API is locked up tighter than an emo-kid’s trousers, so little chance of that. But Wordbook promises to let me keep Facebook updated without having to actually, you know, update Facebook. Sounds like a plan. I’m a lazy bugger.

So, the plugin is activated and the accounts are set up - I guess we’re about to discover whether it works or not.

That said, there will probably be no more content apart from links here for a few days - I’ve written three articles and four CD reviews over the last two days, and the thought of writing anything more makes me want to cry …

… but if it works, all those people who can’t bear the thought of clicking on a link that will take them outside of MySpace, and who complain they never know what I’m up to, should be able to read the same material I post at Velcro City. Fingers crossed, eh?

[edit - well, that plainly didn't work. On the plus side, it didn't kill my Wordpress install either, which was always a possible risk with a two year old unsupported plugin. Nothing ventured, and all that.]

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