We Live In Public
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This is going to be really interesting…
Website traffic – a nice problem to have
I received an email from the hosts of Cheese and Beans earlier today, notifying me that on the 12th of the month, I have already over-run the bandwidth limits of my hosting account. In laymans terms, that means “you’ve got too many damn people reading your blog!”
Of course there is no such thing as “too [...]
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 [...]
Microsoft Certified Technical Specialist (MCTS) – Web Developer
After several years working with the Microsoft .NET platform, I have finally been afforded time at the beginning of this year to sit down with the books, study, and hit the exam trail. After taking two exams in the past couple of weeks (detailed below), I am now officially a “Microsoft Certified Technical Specialist”.
Here’s the [...]
Changing Themes, Developing Themes and Getting Organised
If you’re wondering why I changed back to “The Journalist” theme on my personal blog, it’s purely because it’s easy to read, and it doesn’t get in your way – not that I write anything worth reading, but there you go. Oh – quick reminder – if you have a bookmark or link pointing [...]
Time to Leave Flickr?
Yahoo have ended the employment of George Oates – the guy who designed the Flickr interface, and along with Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield, made Flickr what it was before Yahoo bought it out, and started meddling.
George was the main reason Flickr looks the way it does, and works the way it does.
This is probably [...]
Trashy News Travels Fast
While reading various news stories this morning, it struck me how a story will break in one place, and spread quickly through related news sources over the following minutes. Somebody will get the scoop, and then the geek army seems to descend – quickly followed by the unwashed masses.
Nowhere is this more true than within the [...]
ThoughtCafe Rides Again
It’s back. Granted, it’s not complete (a long way from it actually), but ThoughtCafe exists on the interwebs once more…
I worked on it late last night, and added a few more bits and pieces at lunchtime. The list of contributors (read:columnists) is growing each day, so hopefully we should have a busy, thriving site in [...]
Order from Chaos – in pursuit of a Task List
I have a lot of stuff going on in my life at the moment. In an effort to somehow organise and structure the various requirements placed upon me from day to day, I have been looking at a number of task list applications.
The longer I look, play, fiddle and poke around the various “popular” options, [...]
Thinking Out Loud
I have been playing with Tumblr on the internet for the last few days, and it’s been liberating.
I think perhaps the secret to Tumblr is that it doesn’t support comments by default. Sure, you can add them (via Disqus, for example), but the lack of feedback turns out to be important. Or at least, it’s [...]
