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).
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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”, [...]
© Cheese and Beans. He has terrible tusks, and terrible claws, and terrible teeth in his terrible jaws.
