07 March 2010 ~ 3 Comments

Being a busy idiot

This is original – a hand written blog post.

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26 January 2010 ~ 24 Comments

The Year of Living Dangerously

Today marks the beginning of a real, proper blog. The beginning of an effort to regularly expound words of interest to the passing crowd from a platform built of the best virtual boxwood (in reality it’s built on Apache, PHP, MySQL and Wordpress, but that doesn’t have the same ring to it).

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25 January 2010 ~ 9 Comments

Considering doing this whole blogging lark properly

The next sentence is going to cause a number of people to slap their own foreheads with their hands – perhaps the entire readership – you know, all six of you. I’m just warning you in advance so you don’t try and blame me for personal injury.
I’m considering buying a domain name and webspace to [...]

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20 January 2010 ~ 2 Comments

Nothing to see here

Nothing to see here

While talking with my cousin earlier, I realised a blog had not left a computer by my hand for several days. I'm not suggesting that some great wrong might occur somewhere in the universe in response to my inaction, but I don't really want to tempt fate either.

Blogging is of course serious [...]

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09 November 2009 ~ 10 Comments

I've done it again, haven't I…

My blog is back at Wordpress – hosted by their good selves rather than me. I haven’t so much gone “full circle”, as started another lap. Hopefully this will be the last.
After thinking about it all afternoon, and much of the evening, a few things occurred to me;

Why am I paying for blog posting ?
Why [...]

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19 October 2009 ~ 6 Comments

Taking Part in NaBloWriMo Again

I will be taking part in NaBloWriMo again this year (also known as “National Blog Writing Month”) – the annual challenge to write a blog post on every day throughout November. It sounds easy, but I can assure you from years gone by – it’s not.
The first few days are great fun – writing about [...]

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17 August 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Pondering Reclusion

I’ve been wondering for some time about the relevance of a personal blog on the internet.
I began writing a public journal online about 8 years ago, around the same time that the term “blogging” was coined. In many ways the early days were a time of innocence – blogs were diverse, interesting, honest, open, and [...]

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29 July 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Five New Blogs to Follow

While re-acquainting myself over the last few days with the various online communities I used to call home, I stumbled upon some excellent personal blogs that I had either forgotten about, or not seen before. In the spirit of sharing such discoveries, here they are;
 
Wonderland or Not

A wonderfully written collection of thoughts, observations, and experiences [...]

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03 March 2009 ~ 0 Comments

A New Wordpress Theme…

It’s not actually a “theme” as such yet – just an HTML and CSS file sat on my hard drive that I came up with over lunch. You can click on the image to see the full size one in Flickr…

I will neither confirm or deny that this will take over from my personal blog [...]

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10 February 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Change is good right?

I know, I know… I changed the look of this blog again (if you’re reading this through an RSS reader, you’ll need to click on the title to see the wonderous boringness of the Wordpress stock theme I have chosen).
I got bored. I was going to wait until Wordpress released some more free themes, and [...]

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