George Orwell’s 1984 is rightly a hugely famous novel of the twentieth century. His depiction of a totalitarian future was so griping and compelling that the words and phrases he coined in the creation of his vision have embedded themselves in popular language and culture. I wonder how many teenagers watching reality TV understand where [...]
Apparently I think of myself as some sort of web-type-person. Well, that’s a bit hard to maintain without my own home on the web. So, now I have one.
All my old blog posts have been brought across from the old Blogger blog. But also soon I’ll be using this to host some cute-slash-marginally useful applications [...]
When you’re a Twitter’er you will often be in a situation where someone follows you, and you’re wondering, ‘Who is this person? Do I know them?’ Well, I can’t answer that question for you. But, I have found that one thing that tells you about your new follower is who they follow that you also follow. Follow?
I want to [...]
Previously, I’ve been a Google Reader fan for my RSS news reading needs. Now that I’m a proper Apple fan boi with an iPhone and a MacBook Pro, I’ve switched to NetNewsWire. Waaay better. The Google Reader iPhone app was what really drove me away. I’m probably going to have to turn off my blog for this, but desktop [...]
Yes, this is one of those irritating posts. Where a blog that you thought had quietly retired suddenly reappears with a post. A post that says basically nothing. A very self-indulgent post just promising that there will actually be real work worth reading reappearing soon.
Why couldn’t the blogger just leave us all in peace? Why this attempt to appear [...]
I’ve stopped posting my photos on my blog, they go straight to my Flickr.com feed now. It’s just easier to post to and have the photos look reasonable. Sorry Google, but Picasa just isn’t there yet!
Anyway, here’s my feed: overwatering.
And here some recent sets of photos that I kind of liked. Follow the photos for [...]
You may have noticed a pattern in my posting over the last few months. There was a lengthy quiet period at the end of last year, followed by many posts so far this year. You may also have noticed that I’ve been clearing a large backlog of book reviews, but with each separated by a non-book review post.
Well, of [...]
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