Getting your WordPress.com Blog verified by Google Webmaster Tools

If you are looking to get your wordpress.com blog verified by Google Webmaster Tools, be sure to pick the “meta tag” method. Then copy the whole of the string shown (left angle bracket to right-angle bracket, inclusive), go to your wordpress.com dashboard, select tools and paste the complete string into the Google Webmaster Tools verification [...]

Windows Live Writer

I’ve just discovered Windows Live Writer. It seems to work well with WordPress and certainly made it easy to format the tables in the last blog post on Mobile Data Access in Spain. I was struggling with tables in Office Word 2007, which also publishes direct to WordPress, but Word Blog Publishing seems to have [...]

Here we go …

Well, I needed a place to post the occasionally useful (and the not so useful) stuff and since I can’t be bothered to publish my own site right now (and deal with all the spam), I thought I’d try out WordPress and see if it meets my needs.