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...
Recent Posts
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.