Tweaks to Better Than Therapy
I am currently fighting the flu so I am a little behind with posting to the blog. But I just wanted to quickly fill you in on some of the new things that I have added to the blog. A lot of you may be reading my posts only from the RSS reader so I figured I should mention the new stuff to those people who don’t make a habit of visiting the site that often.
Twitter Updates - despite my initial opposition to Twitter and its “Big Brother” image (what are YOU doing right now?), I’ve decided to overcome my reluctance and give it a go. Part of the reason for the change of heart is that I started leaving status messages in my Facebook account and so I guess I have got used to the idea.
I also found that if I posted regular status messages, I would get less emails from people asking where I was and why I was suddenly silent. So starting from today, the front page of the blog will have a small box with a Twitter status message in it. Feel free to add me to your Twitter ID or subscribe to my Twitter feed.
Go to a random page on the blog - I found this plug-in on Wordpress and I thought it was quite a fun idea. By clicking on this link, you will taken at random to a blog post on this site. It may be one of the newer posts or one of the older posts but everytime you click on that link, you’ll be taken at random to another post. I guess it is the same principle as Stumbleupon. The only snag right now is that the blog is so new that I don’t have so many posts, so you will probably be taken to the same ones over and over. But there is a box with the link on the front page for when I have built up some more work.
This is an excellent feature for recycling old work and getting fresh sets of eyes on stuff you may have wrote a year or two ago.
Buy me a beer - some people may find this one a bit cheeky but I have put a Paypal payment button on the front page if anyone wants to send me the money for a beer. Blogging is thirsty work you know! 
Subscribe to the blog by email - I initially removed this feature when I moved the blog over to this domain. However, when I signed into my Feedburner account, I noticed I had quite a lot of email subscribers so I quickly put the feature back on the front page.
Subscribe to my Stumbles, Diggs and Del.icio.us links - I set up Feedburner links for my accounts on Stumbleupon, Digg and Del.icio.us. I bookmark quite a bit on Del.icio.us, a fair bit on Stumbleupon and as yet not so much on Digg (but I am planning to step this up). If you would like to keep up to speed with what I am stumbling, digging and linking to, subscibing to these feeds would be a good idea. RSS subscribers are currently getting my Del.icio.us links anyway through another Feedburner service but I plan to switch that off soon. So if you like getting those links, please sign up to the new Del.icio.us feed. All links on the front page.
I think that’s it for the moment.
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