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Radio silence

March 18th 2010

Don’t worry dearest readers, the radio silence is just a by product of being a bit freakin’ busy.  I’ve joined a new company, moved city (Monday through Friday), and started eating porridge, walking to work and coding day to day again.  Good times! Possibly Related Posts: A twitter inspired wedding cake A year in books [...]

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A twitter inspired wedding cake

January 31st 2010

I saw this at the weekend in the window of a wedding cake shop.  To me it clearly looks twitter inspired, I wonder what the story behind it is? Possibly Related Posts: Radio silence A year in books A little routine Sometime your realise… This week I shall mostly be…

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A year in books

December 26th 2009

I do enjoy poking through the books I’ve read each year, its a good indicator of what sort of year it has been.  Thanks for the magic power of LibraryThing, it’s easy to find them all too.  So in reverse order, and with the odd note *d… A Cook’s Tour: In Search of the Perfect [...]

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A little routine

June 16th 2009

This will be the most boring post on here, period, and it will seem like the most obvious, but it will help de-stress your life, I promise. I used to run at very high stress levels most of the time.  I worked like a trojan, I cleared shit at a good rate, and I punched [...]

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Sometime your realise…

May 31st 2009

This year started badly.  Two funerals , a shitty time at work and not enough hours in the day to fix the problems.  February licked hairy balls. This afternoon I was driving up the A1 and Lou Armstrong’s Wonderful World came on radio2.  It followed a bit about Satchmo aparently having business cards with him on the loo and “Satchmo [...]

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This week I shall mostly be…

May 13th 2009

At Thinking Digital, and then at BarCampNE2 (sponsored by Hedgehog Lab and BBC Backstage*).  Should you wish to meet me in person then come on down, look for the 7 foot chap in a big hat.  He’s not me, but he is easy to spot.  I shall be there somewhere, modeling a t-shirt from Threadless [...]

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You are not “big players”, you are fish in a stream

June 12th 2008

Image via Wikipedia London is such a funny place sometimes.  I love visiting here, but have absolutely no intentions of living here again ever.  Walking into work this morning past Bank station was like being Neo in the first Matrix film, in the scene on the busy street, where he eventually is distracted by the [...]

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Destress you life …

May 7th 2008

…by stopping thing annoy you. Learn to drink your coffee and black or white and cold or hot, and life gets a little bit less irritating.  Learning to drink your beer warm and flat is a step too far however. Possibly Related Posts: Radio silence A twitter inspired wedding cake A year in books A [...]

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Having defined “connected time”

April 30th 2008

Well, I was goign to post about Seth Godin’s interestin Signal V’s Noise post (which is nothing to do with the excellent Signal V’s Noise blog) but then realised that I had nothing more to add to it.  He’s right, spam is drowning the world (and totally and completely ineffecive for legal transactions), and with [...]

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Starting the day

April 17th 2008

I’m trying to get into a new routine in the morning.  I am traditionally a night owl and slug-a-bed, but I’m trying to affect a change.  Gone are the days (erm, nights) of staying up until 2 am buggering about with stuff followed by dragging my grumpy bum out of bed at 8am to struggle [...]

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