10 More Awesome Tumblrs
The most recent results of my expeditionary attempts to discover the interesting, thought provoking, and original within the Tumblrsphere. The following were...
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Thinking About Ditching Wordpress For Tumblr
I’ve been thinking about doing this for some time. I’ve been writing a blog online since 2003 - first on my own script, and latterly on whichever blog platfo...
Thank The Maker Its Friday
Do you ever have days where you can’t really concentrate on anything? Where everything seems just a bit too much like hard work to make any progress - or eve...
Originality
The suckage amazes me. I just spent the best part of half an hour digging through random tags at the tumblweed website, checking ten blogs at a time to see i...
It Is Done
I just put the notice up on the front of jonbeckett.wordpress.com. I guess this means I’m “officially” a citizen of Tumblr now which I guess also means I nee...
Firework
While cycling in to work this morning, Katy Perry’s “Firework” was blasting into my ears, and I thought about a friend who mentioned the church he goes to sa...
Apparently Im A Born Teacher
Astronomy night with the brownies went well. So well in fact that our 7 year old said this on the way home;
Why Do I Do This To Myself
I just ordered some New Balance running shoes. I’m also going to send in the entry form for our local 5 mile running race - it takes place in May, so it will...
Uk Crime Statistics
The police in the UK launched a website yesterday showing up-to-date instances of crime right down to street level. Interesting to see that there’s one hotsp...
The One Where Google Charge Me For A Domain I Dont Own Any More
A couple of years ago I maintained a technical blog called “Bag of Spanners”. It served as a notebook of bits and pieces of code I had figured out, and that ...