I have a convert! Ali has come around to my way of thinking about twitter!:) curates-egg.blogspot.com/2009/05/unavoidable-blockage. Just as long as I haven’t made him twice a son of hell as I am!! … and I really should get around to implementing comments on here. If it wasn’t for spammers and hackers it’d be up and […]

Well, completed the upgrade to FC9. Wasn’t that painful actually – but I can now run Firefox 3, Adobe Air, and all that malarkey. The painful bits were shifting from IMAPD to Dovecot (had to translate all my mail from MBX to mbox format – thank you “mailutils”), and I haven’t got to grips with […]

After a friend blogged about not liking Twitter so much, I thought I’d blog why I do! I think that starting from (say) Facebook is the wrong place to understand Twitter. For me, Twitter is not really social networking, but more like a blog, so starting from blogspot is probably closer to the mark. In […]

In general I’m a fan of convergence, but I’ve recently realised that I use various ‘social’ websites in different ways, and it is appropriate for them to remain distinct. Take Facebook – it’s the way I keep a connection with friends and family who I don’t see much, but also to mess around with some […]

Went to the Leeds Wall with a friend from Church at the weekend. His boys are in the climbing club there, so he gets to climb for free while they have their lesson. Anyway, he invited me along to be a belay partner. My climbing background is principally traversing. I got the bug doing a […]

Let’s face it, I’m unlikely to finishing tweeting the stag do, and seeing as it’s the wedding tomorrow, I’m just going to go for it here instead. That said, I am going to post the tweets I did make, and I’ll see what’s left to say at the end! Off to a stag do in […]

Well, here we are again at another Lent. Going for the slightly boring route of “biscuits/snacks” for my Lent this year. Puddings and starters are allowed, it’s just those extra biccies at work/home/church/youth group which are getting the chop. To give up puddings and cakes would be a bit sad, as our wedding anniversary and […]

I’m just getting into Twitter (as you’ll have noticed if you know me on Facebook, or have looked at my homepage), and so far I like it. It feels a bit like coming full circle – when I first started blogging, it was a mini-jotter for any random one-line thought I had, and kinda grew […]

Don’t normally got for these meme thingies – but why not, eh?! Apparently the BBC reckons most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. Instructions: Look at the list and put an ‘x’ after those you have read. Add a ‘+’ to the ones you LOVE. Star (*) those you plan […]

Sigh – just broke the blogging part of my website, which means the long and elegant prose which I spent the last hour composing is now lost forever. I think it’s fixed, but I can’t really muster the enthusiasm to write it all in again, especially as I’ve got just about enough time to watch […]