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Warning Overload Warning Overload

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For the last week or so I have been working on a pretty significant software development project for the future. It didn’t start out that complicated - what ...

The Other Stuff

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I thought this might make a good topic for a post - the “other things” that are in your bag. Just to make it a bit more interesting, I figured out if I could...

Lunchtime Ruminations On Blogging

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Inbetween writing swathes of programming, I have been wondering about the place my efforts should be concentrated online. Over the last few years I have ende...

How To Seo Optimize Tumblr

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I was looking at my Tumblr stats in Google Analytics the other evening, and wondered why they are so poor - why very little traffic finds it’s way to my tumb...

The Desk Of Holding

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I saw the meme “TMI Tuesday” earlier on somebody elses Tumblog, and it neatly solved the question of “what pointless garbage can I share with the tumblr comm...

Deathly Hallows

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I finally escaped this evening to watch the latest Harry Potter movie on the big screen, accompanied by a wonderful friend and fellow fan of the books.

The Cart Before The Horse

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I have been wondering recently how I have managed to write online for 7 years, and - perhaps more amazingly - how I’ve managed to keep hold of the majority o...

In Search Of 50 Amazing People

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Unofficial quest for the next few weeks find another 50 great people to follow on Tumblr - in a rather random crusade to follow as many people as are followi...

11 More Awesome Tumblrs

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In the spirit of reaching out a little further (read: extending the desperate death grip), and doing things by the example of the guitarist in Spinal Tap, I’...

Unfollowing

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I had to unfollow somebody today. I didn’t do it lightly, and I’m still wondering about it now.