26 January 2010 ~ 24 Comments

The Year of Living Dangerously

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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27 October 2009 ~ 7 Comments

Seduced by a flawed time suck called Tumblr

Seduced by a flawed time suck called Tumblr

I have been playing with Tumblr again (my page lives at jonbeckett.tumblr.com). I know I shouldn’t but I can’t leave it alone. It’s addictive. Imagine Twitter with images, videos, sound, quotes, and full blog posts. Imagine Facebook without family, and no walls – no borders.
Tumblr seems to be filled with creative people – photographers, artists, [...]

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26 September 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Ducks in a Row

Ducks in a Row

I have been meddling with the various places that I hold accounts on the internet this evening – trying to bring the same username into effect everywhere (as much as that might be possible, given the lack of planning that went into the mess I have singlehandedly created). While doing so, I thought it might [...]

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28 July 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Casting baited words into the passing crowd

Casting baited words into the passing crowd

I spent the greater part of yesterday evening visiting the various blogs I have listed on Google Reader, reading, commenting, and reminding myself what it is to take part in the community.
Perhaps it shouldn’t have come as a surprise, but I really enjoyed it. Submerging ones self into the blogosphere can be a very personal [...]

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16 July 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Back on the Air

Back on the Air

The photograph is of astronaut Steve Bowen. His expression pretty much sums up my feelings of being back online.
It’s been six months. Six long months since February when a shark internet company called PowerNet stole our telephone line from under us. This evening our line became ours again, new hardware was connected to it (courtesy [...]

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17 April 2009 ~ 0 Comments

12Seconds – this could get silly…

In the depths of last night, long after I should really have gone to bed, I took a look at 12 seconds on the internet…
playing with 12seconds on 12seconds.tv
You can use any webcam, and record straight into the site via Flash.
Go try it, and post me the URL. This could get very stupid indeed.

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10 March 2009 ~ 0 Comments

10 Favourite Personal Blogs

10 Favourite Personal Blogs

In the spirit of sharing, here is a list of ten personal blogs I like. If you’re not on the list, and you know I read your blog, worry not – I’ll do another one of these lists soon. The selection list wasn’t terrifically scientific either – pretty much a case of waving my finger [...]

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04 March 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Join me for some cheese and beans

Join me for some cheese and beans

I gone done and did it. Again. (and yes, I am quite aware of how many grammar rules the first sentence breaks. I also know this footnote should not have started with “and”).

Henceforth, my personal blog exists here;
www.cheeseandbeans.com
This will be the last time such a move takes place. After something like 8 years of [...]

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02 March 2009 ~ 0 Comments

To brand, or not to brand ?

Over the last eight or nine years I have “existed” in many forms on the internet – a member of Compuserve, a contributor to bulletin boards, a sometime usenet evangelist, a personal blogger, a professional blogger, and a member of countless social networks and instant messaging systems.
Throughout my online journey, I never considered the vehicle [...]

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04 October 2008 ~ 2 Comments

The Return of ThoughtCafe

The Return of ThoughtCafe

It’s coming back, and returning to it’s roots.
In 1994, ThoughtCafe was the first website I ever made. At the time it existed as a single page “concept” for an online magazine, or “e-zine” as they were called at the time. The web was in it’s infancy, dynamic sites didn’t exist, and it remained an “idea”, [...]

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