2008 A Year In Pictures
I just skimmed through the many hundreds of photographs we took this year to pull out a few that I don’t mind sharing with the world at large - click on the ...
Posts from 2008
The Year Of The Netbook
I have been thinking back through the various technology news stories, gadgets, and industry events that have occurred in 2008 - trying to make sense of what...
I Am A Wii Bowling God
I just scored 240-something on Wii Bowling. Such is my delirium that I don’t know the exact score.
To Begin Again
As the new year approaches, an email has arrived inviting me to renew the hosting account for “The Enormous Waste of Webspace” - the site that has housed my ...
Were Still Standing
After spending our first Christmas with children, more toys than most toy shops, a house full of family, and numerous inter-continental webcam calls, we are ...
New Friends And Deep Thoughts
Stepping back into the world of LiveJournal shortly before Christmas has resulted in a number of unexpected new friendships that have renewed my faith somewh...
Jingle Bells Jingle Bells
Our house is now on the final run in towards Christmas - our first with children. It’s hard work, draining, and exciting all at the same time. While slogging...
Farewell London For Now
During my final hour this afternoon in the London office I have commuted to for the last two years, I handed in my security swipe card, my laptop, and shook ...
Memories Of London
While counting down the last couple of days working in London, I remembered to take a camera with me today to record some of the sights that have become so f...
What Light Through Yonder Window Breaks
What light through yonder window breaks ?
Counting The Days
At lunchtime today, two things happened that made me realise once again that I will be more than glad to get out of the city - to no longer have to ignore th...
Not Happy
In order to at least “be there” for our eldest’s swimming lesson, and the adopters end of year party, I am doped up to the eyeballs on headache tablets, soar...
Holy Flying Shoes Batman
Quite apart from being the most entertaining news story in ages, the shoe throwing attack on US President George Bush Jr is generating some of the funniest r...
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 Flick...
Artwork And Censorship
While surfing around the various communities on LiveJournal earlier today, I kept tripping over various art or photographic post labelled “NSFW” - “Not Safe ...
Aniston Be Thy Name
I know, I know… this post lowers the bar from the usual posts about programming, life, stress, gadgets and so on - but just look at her.
Fuji Finepix J10
The postman finally delivered our new camera earlier today - a tiny Fuji Finepix J10 - it replaces the small Sony W55 that I lost somewhere in Oxfordshire a ...
Powered By Chocolate
I have finally arrived at work this afternoon after attending our youngest child’s nativity play this morning, getting in trouble with HR for not updating my...
The End Of An Era
I confirmed this morning with my boss in London that I will definitely be finishing next Friday.
The London Odyssey Comes To An End
Two years ago I visited a client of my employer in central London for five days to hand over the codebase of a huge project myself and two colleagues had wor...
Revisiting Livejournal
Many moons ago I was a member of LiveJournal (and blogger, and wordpress, and twitter, and identi.ca, and MySpace, and Vox). Invariably the reason for joinin...
Participating In The Twitter Universe
Since Twitter first appeared on the internet, I have been a somewhat reluctant participant. I’ve somehow amassed over 200 followers, who probably don’t take ...
Fuji Finepix J10
I just put an order in with Amazon for a replacement for the camera I lost a while ago. After looking around for something small, inexpensive, and with decen...
Escaping For The Night
Following military style preparation and planning, we escaped our “family of five” status for a few hours last night, and went out to dinner with some friend...
And So It Starts
We retrieved our Christmas decorations from the attic tonight - with predictably violent hyperventilation, gasps, and vomit inducing excitement from the chil...
Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock
Quite apart from the quite brilliant extension to “Rock Paper Scissors”, I love the comment from Sheldon - “I am not going to watch the Clone Wars TV series ...
Blogcatalog A Community For Bloggers
After looking around for a blogging community for some time, I came across BlogCatalog a while ago - and have been impressed with it.
Amazon Mp3 Store Opens In The Uk
The Amazon MP3 store has finally opened in the UK with a raft of albums selling for 3 (about $5). I’m not quite sure how they are getting away with it, but t...
Sat On The Train
I’m heading home from work early today in order for my other half to become “Brown Owl” once again.
Big Bang Theory
While flicking through the TV channels late one night a few months ago, myself and W happened upon a sitcom filled with geeks, and found ourselves sucked in....
Whole World In His Pants
While little miss 4 years old was wandering around the house the other day, W overheard her singing
Procrastinating
After working for something in the region of 12 hours yesterday, and then commuting into London today on the usual 5am / 7pm schedule, I think I’ve earned th...
Early And Grumpy
It’s 7:35am on Sunday morning, and I am dressed and downstairs with the younger children. As per usual they were up before 7, and despite numerous instructio...
Us Reaches New Low Walmart Staff Killed In Sales Stampede
If ever there was proof that American society has taken capitalism too far, and should maybe take a long, hard look at itself, then the death of the guy work...
Busy Weekend Ahead
After a marathon week working on some of the most complex code I have written in years, the weekend has arrived, and there is going to be no let-up.
The Community Of Bloggers Opens
After receiving no feedback whatsoever, I took the slightly risky move last night of registering the domain name anyway because it was available - and once I...
The Community Of Bloggers
A couple of years ago I built a forum - mainly because people asked me to - for people who write blogs to create their own community. It never had it’s own d...
The Beatles And Itunes
The news broke today that the deal to put The Beatles catalogue of music onto iTunes has fallen through - after TWO YEARS of negotiations.
Old People In Corner Shops
I worked from home today - for two reasons; firstly the network at the office has been playing up again, and secondly I had a bad cold all weekend so didn’t ...
Old Friends In Dreams
I had a spectacular dream last night - the kind of dream where you wake up wondering just how powerful your brain is.
Returning To Myspace
It’s been tipping down with rain here today - and I’ve been sidelined with a rather nasty cold. Inbetween washing up, tidying up, and child wrangling, I’ve b...
Azor The King Of Shaves Razor
Some of the regular readers here will remember me talking about “King of Shaves” shaving gel a couple of years ago, and the impact it had on me. While walkin...
Writing A Chess Engine
Every few years, I find myself returning to a project I have had kicking around since leaving college - writing a “chess engine”. For those who are casual re...
Cloning Objects In C
I debated about writing this in a different place on the internet, but seeing as this blog has become a drop box for anything and everything that enters my h...
Pondering Exams
I am thinking about doing some Microsoft certification exams to attempt to stay current while commuting to and from my current employment in London. The idea...
One Messenger To Rule Them All
While waiting for the idiotically crap source code repository called PVCS to dribble files into my computer this afternoon, I caught up with one of my friend...
Getting Nowhere Fast
I was in the office this morning for a couple of hours. Today’s task was to extend the functionality of a pre-existing chunk of code - make it do something n...
Sleepy Morning Descends Into Farce
Yesterday (Sunday), the kids decided that 5am was a great time to be up and running around their bedroom, across the landing, and making as much noise as the...
Freelance Web Work Rocks
I’ve spent the afternoon drawing digital artwork for use as background for powerpoint slides. It’s good to have such diverse skills and experience.
Life Update
It’s been a while since I last wrote a proper blog post about “my life”, so perhaps a coffee break while sitting in London this morning is the perfect opport...
New Enterprise Has Star Trek Nerd Army Mobilized
I haven’t laughed so hard in ages. Here’s the new Star Trek “Enterprise” (from the forthcoming movie);
Cascading Failures
As a part of our final run-in towards getting the adoption done and finished, we have to prepare various documents for the courts - in triplicate.
Working From Home
An eventful day so far (and night).
Windows 7 Not A Re Write At All
And I quote from InfoWorld, who have been picking apart the beta of Windows 7…
More Wallpapers For The Asus Eee Pc 1000H 1024X600
Following my post of a few wallpapers specifically designed for the ASUS EEE PC 1000H a few weeks ago (click here to see them), here are a few more. Last tim...
Even More New Hardware
Late last night I purchased more new hardware to assist in talking to freelance clients. A couple of my colleagues will start laughing when they find out wha...
Wardrobe Replacement
I just put a huge order in on the internet for clothes. Part of the wardrobe replacement that I tend to do every year or so.
Pulling Out Of Nanowrimo
I’m pulling out of NaNoWriMo. I had no time yesterday to write anything, no time today to write anything, will have no time tomorrow to write anything, and n...
Chapter 7 Networking And A History Lesson
Networking the computers turned out to be both easier and more difficult than I had imagined. Windows for Workgroups 3.11 made it easier than I had perhaps t...
Chapter 6 The Newspaper Shop And Halleys Comet
One morning while wandering through the streets of Witney on my way to the office, something in my head told me to stop off at the newsagent in Corn Street.
Chapter 5 Inventing Damon
Sam neatened the paperwork in his hands by dropping it through his fingers onto the desk.
Chapter 4 The Salesmen Arrive
A little after ten oclock, while feeding the third stack of floppy disks into my tremendously exciting new computer, I heard Captain Hook’s laugh drift up th...
Chapter 3 Introductions
My arrival at my new employer could be described best as accidentally falling from a moving car, and landing completely unscathed, on your feet.
Chapter 2 First Day
The digital wail of an alarm clock rips into the remnants of the quite wonderful dream I was having about Jet from Gladiators, and I crack an eye open. A sil...
Chapter 1
I am going to post the various scribblings that contribute to my NaNoWriMo attempt into my blog. An hour this morning has seen the first 2000 words committed...
Nanowrimo Starts
It’s officially the 1st November. Over the next month, if all goes well, I will write my first novel.
Slight Disaster
Guess who was monkeying with his personal webspace at lunchtime and managed to wipe his blog from existence ?
Snotty Laptops And Strange Dreams
I’m writing from the train once again. It’s 7:37am at the time of writing. I was up just before 6 - a luxury afforded by half term, and the children not requ...
The Ignorati
I mentioned the term “Ignorati” in a post a few days ago - an inspired term to describe the nutters I typically have to put up with while commuting into and ...
New York Times In Trouble
Even though new media mouthpieces have been shouting for some time about the end of print newspapers, it still comes as quite a shock when perhaps the bigges...
Days From Nanowrimo
We are days away from the start of NaNoWriMo, and I have not given any thought at all to the story I am going to write. Am I worried? Yes and No.
The Haircut Experience
Yesterday morning, on the way to work I dropped into one of the local barbers to get my hair cut. Little did I know that I would get to meet perhaps the most...
Googles Latest Thing
Has it occurred to anybody else that Google seem to be really interested in whatever they are currently working on, and then lose interest as soon as somethi...
Free Memory Giveaway
I have upgraded my home laptop to 2Gb of memory - meaning I have a 1Gb stick kicking around.
An Implementation Of Gtd Or Getting Things Done
For the last several months I have been trying out various tools and techniques to help manage the various requirements placed upon me in the various roles m...
Taking The Eee Pc On The Train
Today marks the first day the new EEE PC has journeyed with me into London, and therefore resumption of the “Morning Post” that I sent so regularly last year...
Designing Wordpress Themes
Several things occurred to me recently;
Wallpapers For The Asus Eee Pc 1000H 1024X600
In the interest of making myself some half decent wallpapers for the EEE PC, I invaded the vaults of Interface Lift, and cropped some suitable images down to...
First Observations Of The Asus Eee Pc 1000H
Okay - 24 hours into owning an ASUS EEE PC 1000H, and I have a few observations worth recording.
Listening To Buzz Out Loud
It’s been a while since I talked about the stuff I’m listening to while commuting back and forth from London. Regular readers will know that mainstays includ...
Asus Eee Pc 1000H Unboxing
The ASUS EEE PC 1000H arrived today from Amazon (via Pixmania), so this evening I set about unboxing it and installing all the software I will typically be u...
The Beginning Of The End For Print Media
I read with interest this evening a post at ValleyWag about Forbes magazine, who have been running two operations for the last several years - both in Fifth ...
Steve Ballmer Exposed As Evil Microsoft Robot
In a stunning development early this morning, Steve Ballmer of the Microsoft Corporation has been exposed as an evil robot - the first of a robot army being ...
Software To Write A Novel With
With NaNoWriMo approaching, I have been wondering what to use to write my book. After a cursory search around the internet - looking at products such as yWri...
Reclaiming Sleep
I slept for 4 hours last night - dropping into bed at about 1am, and getting up when the alarm went off at 5. Somehow I am able to just “get up” - and always...
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 f...
Essential Utilities For An Asus 1000H Eee Pc Running Windows Xp Sp3
A shiny new ASUS 1000H EEE PC will arrive at our house at some point over the next few days, and I have been thinking about the list of software to install o...
4 Hours Sleep
I’m looking forward to probably 4 hours sleep tonight.
Sharing My Wordpress Theme
It struck me while looking at the latest version of the “Journalist” theme for WordPress that I actually like my theme (the one I hand crafted, and that you’...
Nanowrimo Meets Nakniswemo
No, I have not invented a new language.
Nanowrimo Approaches
It’s that time of year again. I’ve put my name down and expect to spectacularly fail once more in my bid to write a 50,000 word novel during November.
Just Ordered Asus Eee 1000H
I just ordered an ASUS EEE 1000H - a “netbook”. For those interested in what it is / what it can do, here’s the low-down;
Its Been A Long Time
A few weeks ago a face popped up on Facebook’s “people you might know” panel. Somebody I had not seen for at least 20 years, and that my main memory of is pr...
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…
Essential Wordpress Extensions
While talking to one of my colleagues at lunchtime, it occurred to me that I rely on a number of WordPress plugins to extend the basic functionality of WordP...
The Weekend That Wasnt
I’ve just had one of those weekends that didn’t really happen - and now find myself back at work on Monday morning, tired, and preparing to juggle complexity...
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 d...
Getting Things Done
For the past several months I have been trying out various tools to help me fight the disorganisation that follows when you have a day job, a freelance gig, ...
Asteroid On Collision Course With Earth
Just read over at Slashdot…
On Any Sunday
I’m not really sure why I titled this post “On Any Sunday” - especially given it’s provenance as the title of a famous movie starry Steve McQueen about Motoc...
The Return Of Thoughtcafe
It’s coming back, and returning to it’s roots.
The Cathedral And The Bazaar
Next on my commuting reading list while taking a break from fiction is “The Cathedral and the Bazaar”.
More Thoughts On Starting Something
You may recall a month or so ago I mentioned about “starting something” once more on the internet, and wondered if anybody else was interested in helping.
Hilarity On The Underground Again
While stood on the underground train this morning travelling east beneath London, we arrived at one of the stations and a young guy with a beard and headphon...
Compact Disc Failure Rates
Our eldest daughter asked if she could have some music on the other evening - and following a quick finger through the first few CDs in our rack, I pulled do...
Apple Threaten To Close Itunes
Yep. You read it right. Apple are threatening to close iTunes.
Everybody Is Ignorant On The Underground
Just had a typical journey on the London Underground. Thought I would share.
The Secret Features Of Windows 7
While skimming Ars Technica earlier this evening, I read with interest their piece about Microsoft going public with Windows 7 (read: successor to Vista) at ...
The Reality Of 3 Children
While recognising that it’s becoming increasingly rare for me to write about family, our children, or life in general, I thought it might be timely to make a...
Aaaarrgghhh
If you haven’t read my earlier post about the most simple tasks becoming more complicated, perhaps the last few minutes might be a good example.
Didnt Make It To Work
Today was one of those days that started badly, and got spectacularly worse - and it’s still only 11:20am.
Wii Finally Succumb To Nintendo
At some point tomorrow a nice man sent from Amazon will deliver a large box to our doorstep at home containing a Nintendo Wii, and several games for it. The ...
Simplification
As regular visitors will notice, I have gone back to the drastically simple look/feel that I put together a month or so ago for this blog.
Julia Allison
Until I picked up the August 2008 edition of Wired Magazine while commuting home from London, I had no idea who Julia Allison was. It would appear that withi...
Doing Something Nice
Following me breaking my backside for the last few weeks doing a day job and freelance work, a few of the projects have started to pay off - with money arriv...
Thinking Out Loud
I have been playing with Tumblr on the internet for the last few days, and it’s been liberating.
Building Something Insanely Great
I have been doing a little freelance work recently, and have been wondering about ploughing some of the money earned back into a new website. The obvious que...
Wordpress Tumblr Posterous And Twitter
Being the inquisitive sort of chap that I am, I often find myself trying out new things on the internet, and wondering how I might make use of them. While th...
Outrage On The Underground
I nearly spoke out on the Underground beneath London today.
Reflections On Three Weeks With An Iphone
I thought it might be of use for others searching and reading on the interwebs to record my thoughts after living with an iPhone for three weeks - enough tim...
Iphone Survives 21 Upgrade
Among the various scare stories abounding on the internet, I upgraded both iTunes and my iPhone this evening.
Crumpler Boomer
My new bag arrived through the post from Amazon earlier today - a Crumpler Boomer (apparently it’s a “medium” - they appear to make these bags in every dimen...
Finding Yet Another Bag
You may remember I was rather enthusiastic about the “Danger Rocks” bag I bought, and that has been accompanying me to and from London on the train of late. ...
Final Fantasy 4 On The Nintendo Ds
I picked up a copy of Final Fantasy 4 for the Nintendo DS at the weekend - it will be my travelling companion on the train over the next few weeks, and likel...
Asus Eee Pc Rocks With An External Monitor
It never occurred to me to try this before. The EEE PC has a VGA connector on the side of it. I have a spare flat screen. Lightbulb moment (with “ding” sound...
Thoughts On Vista
While having a break and a cup of coffee, I thought it might be interesting to relate the experience of a Windows Vista machine arriving at home - what I did...
Shiny New Ipod Fat Wide Nano
I’m guessing everybody has now seen the photos leaked onto the internet of the new iPod Nano that Apple will be announcing this afternoon.
Farenheit 451
Amazon’s website is suggesting that I should buy “Farenheit 451”. They know me too well.
Mamma Mia
I took our eldest to see Mamma Mia at the cinema this afternoon. Loaded down with drinks, popcorn and chocolate, we got great seats and enjoyed every minute ...
The Size Of The Photo Storage Problem
In preparation for our new computer arriving on Monday, I have been doing a chore that we’ve been avoiding for years - rationalising and sorting out our digi...
Evolution Of Delivery Services
You may recall that I bought a new computer for home the other day - who would have thought even ten years ago that the following information would be availa...
Posterous Finds Its Place As A Moblog
I have finally found a place for the wonderful “Posterous” service that I wrote about several days ago.
Sarah Palin On The Cover Of Vogue
Who would have dreamed that the words “Sarah Palin” would do better than “Britney Spears” to garner hits on the internet? Obviously Britney thinks so, becaus...
Looking Back A Meme I Just Invented
It’s time for a coffee break from the endless streams of source code I am spewing out at the moment, so I decided to invent a meme. It has no real title yet ...
New Computer
I just ordered a replacement for our venerable desktop computer at home. I could bore you with specifications, but I am not going to. Suffice to say it’s man...
Early Opinions Of Google Chrome
I have been playing with Google Chrome throughout most of today (while not fighting fires with C#, SQL Server and K2), and thought it might be worth recordin...
Back To School
Our eldest and youngest returned respectively to school and playgroup this morning after six long weeks off. The morning schedule resumed with a bump at 6:30...
Variations Of A Theme Of Posterous
I’m sat here wondering if I might be able to find a use for Posterous. Normally I write here at “The Enormous Waste of Webspace”, but Posterous is persuasive...
Generation X
While out for a walk at lunchtime in London, I picked up a copy of “Generation X” to read at last - the final well known book by Douglas Coupland that I have...
One Of Those Days
Today was one of those days when it doesn’t just feel like all you’ve done is tell the children off all day - you know it’s all you’ve done all day.
Working Environment
I’m spending more time than ever in our study - both doing freelance work of an evening, and often working from home in the daytime. Carving a half sensible ...
Being The Dependable One
The problem with being the predictable, dependable person that everybody knows, that everybody expects to remain the same, and that everybody expects a smile...
Remember The Milk
In a battle to somehow simplify and also organise my chaotic life somewhat, I have been trying out a task list thingy on the internet called “Remember the Mi...
Broken Glasses
This morning our youngest snapped the eldest’s glasses in two. This caused an inevitable derailing of the entire day that had been planned for the children.
Kick Starting The Words
If you write regularly, it is inevitable that you will run out of inspiration from time to time. A few movies have stayed with me over the years that leave m...
Junk In My Trunk
And low, I did massacre the theme of my personal blog, and pump it so full of sparkle that little girls swooned over it and wished they could help - with sti...
Waiting
I’m currently waiting for a virtual server to finish processing something intensely complicated. While doing so I cannot fiddle with any other code, so am re...
In Fits And Starts
Does the phrase “in fits and starts” exist outside of great britain? It describes the manner in which things happen sometimes at a trickle, and sometimes in ...
Absence Explained
If you have been wondering about my absence from the internet at large, wonder no longer. Last week we were on holiday at my parents in Cornwall, and this we...
Nightmares
All three of our children have been sick for the last few days - with various levels of fever, blocked noses, and sore throats - the product of a visit to a ...
Iphone Ticks The Boxes
I went out yesterday afternoon and bought an iPhone at last. I walked into the store, told them that I knew all about it, and all about the tarrifs, and plea...
Out With Highrise In With Sugarcrm
After a month playing with Highrise from 37Signals, I started to find failings, and set about evaluating the next option in my list - SugarCRM - the open sou...
Blackberry Or Iphone
My mobile phone contract comes up for renewal in a couple of months time - and I’m already looking at the various options open to me. The following devices a...
Plurk Yet Another Social Media Microblogging Application
I’m sure those of you who spend far too many hours on the internet will have looked at Plurk already. For those of you who have not, here’s what it looks lik...
Fantastic Idea Choose Your Own Adventure Story Website
While sitting down eating dinner at a chinese restaurant a couple of years ago with friends, everybody was trying to talk me into making a web based version ...
Burning The Candle
Have you ever heard the expression “burning the candle at both ends” ? It accurately describes my life at the moment.
Kung Fu Panda
I took the elder two kids to see “Kung Fu Panda” this morning at the cinema. For our 4 year old, it was her first ever visit. Never has such a big grin been ...
Anticipated Reactions
Do you ever disregard a notion to tell somebody they look great because you fear it will be misinterpreted by the unwashed masses as some kind of “pass” ?
Rude Old Hags On Trains
The annoying old bag did it again. She got on the train at Cookham, sat opposite me, and kicked my feet deliberately. I moved, and she said something about n...
Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince
Could this be a still from the forthcoming “Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince” movie ?
Currently Readingon The Road By Jack Kerouac
After hearing so much about “On The Road” over the years, I thought it was about time I read it - and while wandering around London at lunchtime I stumbled a...
Commuting Etiquette
While squashed onto an underground train beneath London this morning it struck me how many unwritten rules I abide by while travelling on trains and buses; t...
This Is How Webdesign Happens
For those not involved in web design, I thought it might be interesting for you to see how a site “comes about” - the first steps, if you will.
The Enduring Appeal Of Britney Spears
If you arrived at this blog post expecting to see a fan-boy posting about the enigma that is “Britney”, you’re going to be disappointed. This post is a cynic...
Headless Robots
You’re wondering why this post is titled “Headless Robots”. Wonder no more - head on over to “We The Robots” and identify with the message.
Moo Mini Card Unboxing
Continuing with the line of thought that I should farm out anything that I can to external services - allowing me to concentrate on only that which is import...
Lunchtime Observations
I think perhaps my invisibility field was in full effect today - walking into Liverpool Street to get some lunch just about everybody and their dog walking i...
Organising My Life With Backpack
For the next month or two, alongside Highrise and Basecamp, I am trying out Backpack for the full “37Signals” effect on my life.
The Urge To Tinker
I have been tinkering with the “Beckett Web Design” website here and there over the weekend (check out what happens when you click on the screenshots now), a...
Evaluating Highrise From 37Signals
In the middle of ordering funky business cards from Moo, and visiting my first client this evening, I have been looking around at “Client Relationship Manage...
Touting For Freelance Web Work
I’ve recently had several people asking me to help them build websites. Given that it’s kind of “what I do”, and that my employer only pricks their ears up i...
Enormous Waste Of Webspace Now Using Wordpress 26
Before leaving the house for my twice weekly trudge into London, I installed WordPress 2.6 on The Enormous Waste of Webspace. It’s a major upgrade, and has a...
Is This A Blogging Exodus
I have been sitting up here, on my fence, watching the blogosphere for the past few months, and I can’t help feeling that a change is happening. I can’t figu...
Iphone Misinformation
Somebody pointed me towards an article online about the iPhone, and I was so stunned at the poor research involved that I couldn’t let it pass without counte...
Iphone App Store The First Nail
Apple have finally unleashed the iPhone App Store on the world, and it’s looking very much like the first nail in the coffin of every other smart phone maker...
How Many Screens Is Too Many
It’s worth pointing out that in reality the only machines I am using are the Dell and Toshiba laptops for work. Everything else is there for the photo call b...
Country Music Lyrics
While working on some development work at home (a very boring .net web service), I have internet radio on in the background, filling the room with random mus...
Blog Receives New Coat Of Paint
I thought it about time that “The Enormous Waste of Webspace” received a fresh coat of paint, so have uploaded a new banner graphic. For those who are wonder...
Friendfeed One Service To Rule Them All
Over the past several weeks I have been using FriendFeed as a quick and convenient means of keeping track of what’s going on in the IT world. It strikes me t...
Working From Home
Due to continual virtual private network connection issues from the company offices, I am working from home unless needed. Thankfully I live 20 minutes by mo...
The Weekend Rolls To A Stop
I don’t really recall what weekends used to be like.
Happy 4Th July
To all of my friends and family in the United States of America, happy 4th July - “Independence Day”.
Has Anybody Tried Buzzword
I discovered something rather nice recently - a web based word processor called “BuzzWord”. It’s based on Flash, and was bought by Adobe to help combat Googl...
Body Language
I sat opposite a young couple on the train this morning. She leaned against the window as one might if sat next to somebody invading your personal space. He ...
Weekends Rule
We are approaching the end of a long weekend (I had Friday off), and yet I don’t really recall much about it - although I know it was packed with activities.
Mama Mia The Movie Of The Summer
Without a shadow of a doubt, I think it’s going to be the movie of the summer. Something about it reminds me of Grease. I just wonder if the movie studio kno...
Too Many Screens
How many screens on a desktop would you consider too many?
Underground Madness
I arrived at Paddington at 8:15 this morning. I walked into the office at 9:45. The intervening hour and a half were spent underneath London, riding the hila...
Life Changing Events
Today I talked to my employers about the effects my extended absence is having on the children. I voiced my concerns.
Our First Wedding
W’s Uncle Peter got married on Saturday to a wonderful lady called Janet. The horrendous weather miraculously stayed clear throughout the day, and provided o...
Ready For Checkout
It’s Friday morning, my bags are packed, and I’m ready to get out of here. Just the small matter of the rest of the day sat in a classroom before heading hom...
The Great Hotel Adventure Day Three
It’s 8:01am, and I’m sat in my room once more, checking email, watching breakfast television, and wondering how best to spend the next hour or so. As seems t...
The 5 Real Reasons To Use Firefox 3
Unless you have been living (a) under a stone, or (b) on a desert island for the last 6 months, you will be aware that Firefox 3 has slowly churned it’s way ...
Missing My Family
I can’t sleep, and I’ve realised why. I miss my family… a lot.
The Great Hotel Adventure Day One
At 7am my Palm organiser burst into life with a quiet electronic wailing that would perhaps have been quite loud for an ant. My ear - more accustomed to hear...
Temporary Home
This is my home for the next several nights. It comes complete with a bed, a window looking out over a greenhouse full of flowers, a nice bath, a wardrobe, a...
Heading North
No, I am not about to head off for Superman’s “Fortress of Solitude” - but in some ways you might argue that I am. At 4pm this afternoon I will leave home to...
Listing Books With Goodreads
I just discovered Goodreads while looking at the list of services integrated into FriendFeed.
Kaspersky Sucks Big Donkey Balls
After AVAST Antivirus announced several weeks ago that it’s license was about to run out on the Windows machine at home (which surprised me, because it was s...
Thinking About Programming
At 6:30am this morning I found myself sat at a computer with an instant messaging window open, debugging PHP code for a friend on the west coast of America. ...
Music For A Friend
While sat on an underground train early this morning half asleep with an iPod jammed into my ears, a song broke through the layers of idiocy and made me thin...
Imagining The Tree An Approach To Describing The Software Developmentmindset
A friend commented on the tree analogy I posted, so I thought it may be prescient to re-print the original article I wrote some years ago - describing the mi...
Pickpocketed On The London Underground
It had to happen at some point. This evening while travelling home I was pickpocketed on the London Underground. I didn’t realise until I got off the train a...
Carrying The World On My Shoulders
While walking through the bustling London streets to find something to eat this lunchtime, I felt exposed - alone. I’m not quite sure what’s causing it. In t...
Star Wars On The Nintendo Ds
I finally have a copy of Star Wars for the Nintendo DS - complete with swishy light sabre noises, and tinny but thunderous music.
New Iphone Arrives Today 5 Contain Golden Tickets
Apple will finally release the new iPhone later today - so I thought it might be fun to make a list of the rumours and speculated features that are buzzing a...
Ghost In The Shell
This evening I am having the last couple of hours of the weekend to myself watching the second Ghost in the Shell movie - “Innocence”. For those who have not...
Four Months With Children
I just realised - it’s now been four months since the end of our two year odyssey through the various hurdles and high jumps of the social services system. F...
Computer Attempts Meltdown
We have several computers in our house - “the laptop” (also known as a Macbook), “the desktop” (also known as an ancient Compaq Presario that lives in the in...
Books Ebooks And Podcasts
Due to the resumption in hostilities between myself and the British transport system that has been forced upon me by my employer for the next several months,...
Riding A Bicycle To Work
At present I am commuting into the city for three days each weekand for the remaining two days I live close enough to the office to ride a mountain bike to w...
Running Out Of Pockets
While attempting to organise myself before leaving the house this morning I ran out of pockets. While this normally wouldn’t be such a huge problem, if you’r...
Working In The City
The day started for me at 5:30am, stumbling through the morning routine with a raging headache and creeping out of the house into teaming rain. Four hours la...
The Enormous Waste Of Webspace Bursts Forth
After several days thought, and a couple of evenings picking away at a wordpress theme, I finally have “my own” blog once more. My own little corner of the i...
Still Trying Out Tumblr
I’m still trying Tumblr out - it’s an alternative blogging platform to WordPress, and when allied with the Disqus commenting platform it seems to work very w...
Holiday Crash And Burns
Its late (the day after), so I’m not going to spend a great deal of time writing the story up tonight - suffice to say our tent suffered structural failure, ...
Somewhere Safe
While filling various sports bags with clothes in readiness to go camping this afternoon, we glanced from the upstairs window and spied a certain little cat ...
Going Camping
We are off camping tomorrow - taking the children on their first experience of the great outdoors (well… as much of the outdoors as the westcountry can summo...
The Wisdom Of Children
While sat watching Superman Returns with the kids this morning, they came out with something that illustrates the workings of a child’s mind far better than ...
Flirting With Tumblr
I’m flirting with the idea of using Tumblr for a personal blog once again - given the shorter nature of my posts recently, it would seem like a more persuasi...
A Beginning Of Sorts
Get the trumpets out. Blow them pretty hard. With no further ado, no quarter spared, and a promise of no further clichd figures of speech, I bestow “The Enor...
Nothing To Report
If you are wondering why there have been few blog posts from Beckett Towers over the last few days, it will be because of a lack of news. Rather than followi...
Embracing The Internet
For those who were not aware, I am back working in London. This means getting up very early, spending several hours commuting each day, and returning very la...
Music To Live A Life By
This evening is filled with preparations for my return to London in the morning - preparations to get up at some ungodly hour, and join a two hour (each way)...
Weekend Screenshot
For the curious - applications are…
Asus Eee Pc Unboxing
The postman arrived at about 10:30am this morning with the package I ordered on Thursday night - an ASUS EEE PC. In the grand tradition of being a total geek...
Returning To London
It’s looking like I’m back off to London for a few days each week to work with the same people I worked with last year.
Asus Eee Pc
After finding out that I will be travelling into London again as of next week, I lashed out on a replacement for the Macbook (which has become a “family” com...
That One
Our youngest daughter - entering her 37th month on this earth - has reached a rather interesting stage in her attempts to communicate with the world around h...
Addicted To The World
If you, like me, find yourself reading blogs in [insert RSS reader here], looking at friend’s photos on Flickr, following Facebook, and messing around with T...
Running The Marlow 5
I did ithad promised each other - half jokingly - that neither of us would train for the race this year. We bumped into each other a couple of weeks ago at o...
Photo Journey From Work To Home
For the benefit of those who live in various other places around the world, I thought it might be fun to do a photo journey from the office to home, using my...
Drifting Along
For the last few days I’ve felt like I’m drifting along with the rest of the driftwood. Getting up in the morning, doing the morning routine with the kids, w...
Gameboy Advance Sp
While at a loose end a few nights ago I wandered towards E-Bay in a dangerous manner, and ended up buying a Gameboy Advance SP for myself.
Remembering John Denver
In the aftermath of one of the most memorable and enjoyable weekends for quite some time, this evening has been the inevitable return to earth with a bump - ...
When Will The Day End
Here’s what’s happened and/or what I’ve been up to so far today, in some kind of chronological order.
First Night Out
One of our good friends arrived after dinner last night to babysit - allowing us our first night out together since the girls arrived. It felt very odd indee...
Revenant Wings And L33T Sk1Llz
This evening W came to a complete and utter halt in “Revenant Wings” - otherwise known as “Final Fantasy 12” for the Nintendo DS. After witnessing a complete...
Finding Balance In The Force
It’s hard. I’m sat here, trying to concentrate while writing this blog post. W is watching “Waking the Dead” on the television, and my good headphones are at...
Wild Hogs
We had our weekly movie/pizza/beer night last night with some great friends who live a few minutes walk across town. In a fit of panic after realising we had...
Surrendering To Illness
I haven’t been well for a week or so - but had so far just kept going - got on with things - carried on. This morning I woke with very little voice (but a ve...
Emma Watson Hayden Panettiere And Gutter Media Culture
Now and again, something happens in the media that makes me angry, and I can’t keep my mouth shut about it. This is one of those times.
The Inverse Law Of Usenet Bandwidth
While eating my lunch, I began wondering - as you do - who the person was that first came up with the term “weblog”. A baguette and a chocolate bar later, an...
Rainy Wednesday Mornings
I got up at 7am, got the kids up, got them washed, dressed, through breakfast (cereal and toast), then myself through the bathroom - shower, shave - then dre...
Memories Of 1980
While digging around in some photos on the computer this evening, I stumbled upon a folder full of scanned photographs from my childhood that we acquired las...
Blogs Bloggers And Blogging
Over the past few days I have been thinking about my involvement in the internet - the blogs I write, the communities I participate in, and the blogs I read.
Traffic Figures
The above graph illustrates the recent readership figures for my little blog. I don’t know what it means in the wider scheme of things, and I don’t really ca...
Concealing Prejudice
While sat around the dinner table this evening relating the various stories of our day to each other, after a little coaxing our eldest daughter managed to r...
Bionic Children
It’s Sunday morning and I find myself surrounded by seemingly bionic children. They powered up at about 7:30am, and have not let up all morning so far. We ar...
The Case Of The Sisters Slippers
Picture the scene - eldest daughter is watching Superman on DVD (for the first time), younger two fell asleep within a few minutes of the start of the movie,...
Changing The Look
Yes, I have changed the look and feel of this blog yet again, and yes, I am expecting some people to say “ooh, I like this”, and others to say “I was just a ...
Surviving The Weekend
Our youngest was 3 years old yesterday.
Haircut
After months of attempting to get my hair cut, I finally made it at 9 this morning - in a tight time window between getting the kids up, and W heading out to...
Another Blog
Yes, the title of this post is quite correctI have begun writing another blog. I found myself caught between a virtual rock and a hard place. While this blog...
A Day In Dads Life
I’m going to write the blog post that you just don’t see on the internet.
Getting Through The Day
Just a short note to anybody who might read it - I am logged in to Google Talk, Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger (aka Windows Live Messenger), ICQ and AIM at s...
Stupidly Early
I took the above photo with my trusty Sony Ericsson K800i this morning while waiting for a train at a quite ridiculous hour. When I left the house it was sti...
Travelling With Work
I’m setting my alarm for 5am tomorrow morning. I’ll leave the house at 6, and with a little luck (subject to the railway and taxi gods), I’ll arrive on-site ...
Plodding On
I am at work, the cold I have been suffering with all weekend is worse, but I am plodding on. I guess this was the “reason to get out of bed” that we talked ...
Early Morning Snow
We woke this morning with a start as a crack of thunder rolled through the sky directly above our house. You might have thought we would open the curtains to...
Broken Toe
I somehow managed to break one of my toes last night while wandering around the house in my socks. I wasn’t sure if it was broken at the time because I could...
Flying Penguins
While making various packed lunches this morning, this news story caught my eye on the BBC breakfast news broadcast…
Stories From The Lost Generationthe Elfish Gene
On the whole, our local library is pretty pathetic, but while wandering around the isles in-between extricating our children from book destroying antics, I s...
Its Turtles All The Way Down
Have just been reading the O’Reilly C# book, and came across a story I have seen before, but it always makes me laugh, so I thought I would share it…
Hierophant
You are The Hierophant
Surviving The Evening
W went out for a well deserved night out this evening with her best friend - leaving me to cook dinner, bath the kids, and get them to bed.
This Still Makes Me Laugh
In the 70s an Australian appeared on British TV screens called Rod Hull, with a puppet called “Emu”. He famously attacked several well known television chat ...
Library Fines
I am about to walk into town with the kids to return their library books and DVDs… and pay fines again.
The Post You Have Been Waiting For
A close blogging friend remarked earlier that I had not written much about the children recently, and that I should - that she enjoyed reading about our expe...
Flirting With Vox
Over the last couple of evenings I have been flirting with Vox again - looking at it, at it’s ready built community, and wondering about stepping a little si...
Back At Work
I am back at work this morning, and it feels very weird indeed. Can’t write much - am busy clearing the backlog of emails, software updates and inquisitive c...
A Few Words
I received news today that one of my closest friends is climbing out of perhaps the bleakest time of their life.
Home
We are home.
Visiting The Seaside
We left the house at 6:30am on Friday morning. After waking up following repeated bouts of car sickness over the course of our 5 hour car marathon on Friday ...
Friends
Amongst the mayhem of preparing to return to work, and to visit my parents for the first time with the girls this weekend, we had perhaps my oldest friend co...
Worn Out But Happy
I have just got back from the school run. I did the whole routine myself this morning - got all three kids up, through breakfast, washed, teeth brushed, dres...
Hilarity In The Garden
Here’s what just happened in the garden - witnessed while I was washing up and glancing out of the window from time to time…
Ironing Little Clothes
We went shopping this morning with a store card filled by the people I work with (thankyou everybody - the girls will write a suitably embarrassing thank you...
Fox No Chickens
We got up this morning and found feathers all over the chicken run, and no sign of W’s chickens. Serves us right for not closing the door to the chicken run....
British Telecom Take No Notice Of The Telephone Preference Service
In the UK we have a national database called the “Telephone Preference Service” - if you are on the list it is illegal for anybody to try and cold-call you a...
The Amazing Disappearing Man
Since we have had the children, the weight has been falling off us. I am now lighter than I have been in years. Although I will not give W’s weight away (I m...
Danger Rocks Messenger Bag
cross-posted from PluggedOut
Cereal Toast Tiredness
The last few days have seemed like hard work - and I’m not really sure why. Perhaps it’s the added complication of toast on a morning (we decided to give the...
A Walk In The Woods
We spent this afternoon in the local woods, encouraging the girls to run riot. Given their background, it is hardly surprising that they don’t know what to d...
Filling The Day
W has gone on a school trip with our eldest daughter today - acting as a helper. I’m almost apprehensive about the state she will return in.
Petite Anglaise On Bbc Breakfast
In between packing lunchboxes, getting dressed, and fielding “can we…” requests from our younger children this morning, W shouted from the kitchen “Catherine...
Wondering About The Future Of This Blog
With the advent of services such as FriendFeed and Pownce, I am wondering if this personal blog may eventually die - or at least become stagnant. With friend...
Every Day Seems Like An Achievement
At the moment, every single day seems to be an achievement to be earned. We have still not survived a single day without a tantrum from one of the children; ...
35 Years Old
Here’s what I got for my birthday from Wend…
Visiting Family
Today was the girls first visit to W’s parents house. I’m pleased to say it went really well, and I don’t think we wrecked the place too much.
Experimenting With Pownce
I am experimenting with the Pownce messaging service as perhaps an alternative or addition to a regular blog. I have written about Pownce at PluggedOut if yo...
Riding A Bicycle
On monday evening our eldest returned home from school to find a “first bike” in our back garden - donated by a friend. Although the bike is a little small f...
The Girls Like Kylie Thank The Maker
While scratching around for some music to put on for the girls to dance to earlier, I had a brainwave. They had never seen Kylie Minogue before. They have no...
The Morning Routine
I didn’t get up until 7:10 this morning… it’s funny how those few minutes can cause such a rush later on. Part of the reason was because W banged her head ye...
Toy Kitchens
No apologies for the 1970s advert from YouTube above. Our younger kids have been given a play kitchen by our friends, and have spent all afternoon engrossed ...
Reflecting On The First Weeks
While taking a break from the mayhem that tends to unfold throughout our house between 7am and 7pm each day, I thought it might be worth looking back at our ...
One Thing After Another
Yesterday was a nightmare, and today isn’t looking any better so far.
Returning To The Office
I will be going to visit work tomorrow for an hour - the first time I have been back since leaving in late February to begin our adoption journey. It’s going...
Experimenting With Vox
Many moons ago I had an account at Vox - I was one of the beta testers when it was being developed too.
Waking Up Early
I have been awake since 5am when the youngest woke and started crying. I had no idea why, and neither did she - as soon as I walked in the bedroom door she w...
Observations From A Day Out
We took the children to the farm again today - to see (and feed) the animals, and to play on the adventure playground. We didn’t really give much thought to ...
Washing Up
Today I have been mostly washing up. Usually I switch off while washing things up, but this evening while drying the fourth sink full in a row, I became awar...
Planting Things
This morning was occupied with the children’s first experience of planting things. We are all growing Sun Flowers in a competition of sorts to see who does t...
Another Friday
It is 9:35am. I have already been up for nearly 4 hours. That’s all I want to say about that.
10 Random Facts
My oldest and most close internet friend carefully avoided including me in a “tagged” blog meme, so I am replying to the request anyway. I have no idea what ...
How To Begin Valentines Day
… by getting up at 4am to tell the children to go back to bed, and then getting back up at 6:45am to wash one of them after she had another very messy accide...
The First Accident
I woke suddenly to the sound of crying this morning, and ran into the bathroom - hastily tying my robe on the way.
Resuming Normal Blogging Service
After a couple of weeks writing each evening with the various adventures and dramas surrounding us, I am returning to normal blogging service today. We are n...
Day Fourteen Meeting Nan And Grandad
Today started at 7am with the sounds of laughter and little people shouting instructions to each other across the landing. I got up and made my way down for ...
Day Thirteen Winning And Losing
Today was a very up and down day. Highs and lows.
Day Twelve A Walk In The Woods
We took the kids out for a walk in a nearby meadow today. Several square miles of open land with no roads, and very few people. We encouraged them to explore...
Day Eleven The Food Fight Starts
Okay - we finally have something to think about.
Day Ten Turning The Schedule Around
We turned the children’s schedule around today, and made life very much easier for ourselves.
Day Nine Not Taking Them Back
The alarm clock went off at 7:30am, as it has for the past several weeks. It did not wake us - we had been awake since about 5am, tossing and turning. Althou...
Day Eight Ends And Beginnings
We met with the social services staff this morning to review our first few days with the children, and decide if to extend the introductions period. We thoug...
Day Seven The Eve Of Yet Another Decision
I am finding it difficult to find subjects to write about - not because I am shielding any great confidences, but because normality seems to have descended t...
Day Six Slowing Everything Down
After perhaps the most difficult day yesterday we were determined to take a step back today and slow everything down.
Day Five Discovering The New House
At about 10:30 this morning there was a knock on our front door, which opened to show several smiling little faces, followed by their foster carer who also h...
Day Four Rainy Day Indoors
Today had originally been planned as our first day out with the children - but due to our already having done that, and torrential rain throughout the day, w...
Day Three A Trip To The Farm
We were thrown in at the deep end today. What had been planned as a day with the foster carer turned into us taking the children out for the first time on ou...
Day Two Were Still Standing
Observation of day two? Probably that it’s all getting a lot easier.
Learning To Be Called Daddy
We survived. We have now met our children, who called us “Mummy and Daddy” straight off the bat. Very, very weird - but not the biggy.
The Weekend Continues With New Friends
Following our marathon week of evenings out, and dinners with friends, we are rolling towards the end of the tracks today with perhaps the most interesting m...
Stairgates And Coffee
I have spent the greater part of the day constructing stair gates for the door between the kitchen and the lounge, the base of the stairs, and the upstairs l...
Wrestling With Privacy Concerns
At the moment this blog is very candid indeed - and always has been. While this isn’t a problem for us at the moment, it does raise concerns for the near fut...
The Adventure Starts Here
I finished work this evening, and don’t go back for 2 months. During the coming weeks I have to learn how to be a Dad to several small children.
Last Day Of Work
The wonderful lady in the photo above is attending her last day of work today. For nearly 20 years she has been pursuing a career in accounting, and for the ...
Wednesday Night Is Curry Night
Three days to go after today, and we found ourselves visiting our friends for a takeaway curry (and several bottles of wine, and to offload some of the eggs ...
Single Digits Counting The Days Until We Meet Our Future Children
I wanted to clear something up - it would appear many of those who have commented seem to think that we have a few days left until our house is populated wit...
Night Out With Friends
To mark the start of our “farewell tour”, we went out for dinner at W’s favourite restaurant last night with our friends.
Since You Left College
This is my answer to a meme I thought up at lunchtime. The general idea is to state how many years it has been since you were in education, and then answer e...
How Many Years Since I Left College
While talking to one of my colleagues earlier, I realised it has been 17 years since I left college - and nearly 20 years since I left school. I am in a stat...
When Fellow Bloggers Collide
Do you ever wonder if somebody will tap you on the shoulder in the street, and whisper “I read your blog” ? I do. I can’t really call it a fear as such, more...
Time For A Confession
I just bought the components to prolongue the life of the desktop computer at home.
The One Where I Dont Upgrade The Computer
Our computer (the Windows XP desktop) at home started to disintegrate this morning in noisy fashion. Following the school of thought that says “you should ne...
Meet The Chickens
Sunday morning in a mud filled garden - meet Teagan and Morwenna. There is another chicken (Demelza) somewhere in the garden - probably following W in the ho...
Guess Who Left His Phone At Work And Then Found It
I left my mobile phone at work. I feel like I’m cut off from the world… it’s very, very weird indeed.
Building Furniture And Writing Code
I built two IKEA units today - a huge chest of drawers for our bedroom (to hopefully solve the problem of piles of clothes everywhere), and a full-height she...
Work Ikea Tired Soaked And Aching
I am soaked to the skin once again (through my waterproofs) after cycling to work through the great deluge. Predictably it has stopped raining now. I’m start...
Bobby Fischer The Anti Hero Has Died
Robert James Fischer, perhaps the most gifted chess player the world has ever seen, has died in Iceland aged 64.
Needful Things That I Wont Be Getting Any Time Soon
As we roll ever faster into 2008, and huge changes in our home and family life approach, I somehow feel compelled to make a list of the things I would very m...
Freedom Feels Very Strange
It feels very strange, having a personal blog again. While it’s liberating to think “I can write about whatever I like”, it also causes the question “what th...
Answering Important Questions For Our Time
In the previous post, I invited people to ask me random questions, and promised to answer them. After spendingoh, secondspicking which ones to answer, here a...
Tired And Soaked To The Skin
I have just got off my bike after cycling to work (and no, the photo is not of me). The weather outside was just what I needed after having Flu throughout Ch...
Refueling The Children With A Dvd
Over the past several days we have been carrying a video camera around with us and recording as many normal activities as possible, in preparation to make a ...
Pixars New Baby Wall E
I have just been watching the trailer for the new Pixar movie “Wall E”…
A Trip Into Town And A Chicken Encounter
Videos recorded to as part of a DVD for our future children to help them get through the next couple of weeks while waiting for the adoption introductions to...
A Departure From Pluggedout
Following a completely unexpected change of track at PluggedOut where I have posted under the category “geekery” almost exclusively since Christmas, I have d...
The Great Windows Re Install
Following our purchase of a shiny new multi-function printer/scanner as reported yesterday, and the prospect of installing the drivers and using Photoshop a ...
The Musical Horoscope Meme
I saw this first here, and then here, and thought “I have to try that”here are the rules, and the results
Making Your Blog Search Engine Friendly
I have cross posted this from it’s original place at the “Community of Bloggers” - an open forum for discussion of all things related to writing and running ...
Internet Commenter Business Meeting
Have you ever wondered what would happen if a business meeting evolved in the same manner as a posting on Facebook, Digg, Slashdot, or Reddit? Wonder no more...
The One Where I Talk About Books
After reading Quarter Rest earlier, I realised it might be an idea to have a page here at PluggedOut about the books I am either reading, or have recently re...
Telling The Children
Our future children were told of our existence today - told that they have a new Mummy and Daddy. Their foster carer broke the news early this afternoon arme...
10 Websites To Get You Through The Day
I thought it might be interesting for others, and maybe helpful to share the websites I frequent on a regular basis. I spent inordinate amounts of time campe...