My Web Tools

I don’t spend a great deal of time online. Most of my computing is done between me, and an IDE that churns out compiled C++, C# or Java. So my rather mediocre set of tools is as follows.

For general communication, I'm still on email. I don’t Twitter and I don’t use text messaging much except with my sister in the UK (and more recently with my younger daughter who just got a phone). Speaking of phones, I don’t use that much either. I much prefer to send/receive email that I can process off line.

I do use MSN/Windows Messenger for IM at work and occasionally at home. Once again this is mostly a link to my sister in the UK but I've used it to keep up with the latest school scandals etc.

My web development tools are rather dated. I use MS FrontPage to build my web site which I do infrequently and WordPress for my blog. I didn't choose WordPress - it came free from my ISP and I decided to give it a go.

I most recently tried Google's Reader which accumulates RSS feeds quite well and I tried Twitter which is completely pointless and time wasting as far as I can tell. I also tried Flickr while we were in the residency but I doubt I'll use it again.

I have posted some images on Google Earth (via Panoramio) but again this was pretty much a one-time deal.

I'm not very creative and have pretty much no art skills so I tend to use the tools as they come configured. This means that I end up with the boring looking web site but at least it works and I don't have to spend any time tinkering with it.

So on the Internet tools scale which goes from zero at the John McCain end to 10 and the Dr. C end I'd say I was about a 3.