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Inciting A Tumblr Exodus

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I posted to Tumblr earlier this evening, inviting people toswitch to WordPress. There has been a significant amount of discontent among the small community o...

The One Where I Fell Over

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Ifellover on my way home from the dinner with friends on Friday night. We were turning a corner in the dark on an unfamiliar road, and I walked out onto a gr...

Friday Five

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It’s been a while since I’ve done a post like this. I’m actually sitting at work, trying to kill the last half an hour while waiting for a server to sort it’...

My Doctor

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While reading an interview with Steven Moffaton the Radio Times website about the writing and production of the 50th anniversary episode of Doctor Who, “The ...

The Absence Of Time

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I have half an hour until I leave work for the day. Half an hour until I pull on my coat, bike helmet, and gloves, and do battle with the evening traffic in ...

Blue Origin

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It seems to have escaped the main-stream news because it’s obviously far more important for every news organisation on the planet to cover doom and gloom sto...

Annual Appraisal

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I had my “Annual Appraisal” at work today. It didn’t get off to the best of starts -I had been fire-fighting a server in a distant server-farm throughout the...

Moleskine

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The level of attachment I experience to such a seemingly trivial thing is a surpriseI can now understand why people become obsessive over notebooks, diaries,...

Filofax

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For longer than I can remember, I have carried a Filofax personal organiseraround with me. Back in the late 1980s they were quite the fashion accessorytoday ...

The Great Tumblr Exodus Is Gathering Momentum

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Ever since Tumblr appeared on the web back in 2007, people have wondered what to do with it. For many it was a life-streaming scrapbook of sortsa place to qu...