It’s all change again for my personal blog – gone with the minimalist theme, and in with the loud, in your face theme. I would like to say this was all planned, but of course it wasn’t. During a fit of “what can I do next” last night, I ended up looking at the free themes over at WooThemes, and came away with this one – it’s called “Mainstream” if you are insterested in slapping it on your wordpress install.
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).
If you’re wondering what on earth is going on with my WordPress blog, you’re not wondering in vain. I’m experimenting with the “P2″ template from Automattic (the guys that make WordPress). The main thing about P2 is that all comments are visible – so (as a reader) you can see any conversation. P2 also appeals [...]
Anybody who has read my personal blog recently will be aware that I have ditched the iPhone in favour of a Blackberry. The Blackberry is somewhat better at one key thing than the iPhone was previously; communication. It's existence about my person this weekend has resulted in several far flung friends finally being able [...]
While catching up on the various thoughts of those I follow on Facebook, LiveJournal, Wordpress, Posterous and Tumblr early this morning (yes, I am mad), I chanced upon a really interesting post on Tumblr.
The basic premise; that as you get older, not only do you have fewer friends, but that this is both natural and [...]
It's Christmas Eve, and I am finally home for more than a couple of days after several months spent in a hotel with work. I had anticipated being at work today, but a list went around the company email system yesterday detailing who was going to be in and on-call. My absence from the list [...]
While watching our children talk to their grandparents in Cornwall on Skype this evening, I got the first real sense so far that Christmas is coming. Lunatic levels of excitement were in evidence (followed by all manner of threats at bedtime to bring them back down to earth again).
This year I have been absent from [...]
It’s Monday evening, and I’m in the Hilton again (I wonder if Paris Hilton’s boyfriend says that? Does she have boyfriends for longer than a week?)
Work is going well. It’s one of the only things I have control over, meaning I can force what I am doing to succeed. Anybody who knows the hours I [...]
I’m finally home this evening after four days away with work. After ringing the doorbell, I heard excited shouts from two little girls who had been allowed to stay up late to see me. Our youngest ran back into the house on-sight shouting “Daddys home!”, except of course there was nobody to hear her. Perhaps [...]
I’m starting to get the hang of this – not living in a hotel – I’m starting to get the hang of expecting failure. Don’t get me wrong – this hotel room is nice, but there are little things that could so easily have been right. It’s a big Hilton, if that means anything.
Let’s start [...]
© Cheese and Beans. He has terrible tusks, and terrible claws, and terrible teeth in his terrible jaws.
