Another year, another post

September 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment

I can’t quite believe it, but this blog, in all its various incarnations is 8 years old today!

What I also can’t believe is that the word blog is not recognised by my spell-checker.

What I can believe is the scarcity of my posts over the 8 year period. At times I have posted fairly regularly and yet, at other times, my words / opinions / thoughts / mutterings* have almost dried up. A lot of it has been down to a lack of motivation and at times boredom. However, one major factor has been the increase of other social media platforms.

The growth of facebook and twitter has coincided with a reduction of posts. It is also easier to talk about a book I’ve just read on goodreads and share a photo on instagram or flickr. In other words social media has made me a little lazy when it comes to pulling things together and sharing them here, but then that is nature of the medium.

Cheers, happy blogday!

So what does the next year of this blog have in store? I’m not sure but I do feel that there may be post with a little more regularity. I enjoy writing here, and to be honest, the current crop of social media platforms aren’t really exciting me at the moment. I wonder what the next big thing will be?

In the meantime, I’m celebrating this blog’s 8th birthday.

*delete as appropriate

Filed Under: Digital, Personal, This site

A change is as good as a rest

April 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment

I thought it was high time I gave a little love to this blog of mine. I have used it to record my bible through the year exploits and the odd other snippets of insignificant opinion regarding publishing and digital bits and pieces. And it has been running a good few years now. But I wanted to show it some love and pep things up a little. So…

  • we have a new theme
  • we have a simplified structure
  • we will post with more regularity

Now whilst all the above are very good and worthy, it does mean that some bits and pieces are a little broken. I will endeavour to sort those out in the next few days. In the meantime things may look a little weird, there may be one or two images that are a little out of place, and some links may be a little temperamental. Apart from that all other issues will be with yourself and not this site.

Filed Under: This site Tagged With: ,

Now we are six

September 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment

But now I am Six,
I’m as clever as clever,
So I think I’ll be six now for ever and ever.

Now we are six
A A Milne

It is time to sing happy birthday again. In 2004 I began to blog. Originally on blogger and then onto my own self-hosted wordpress install. I haven’t been too regular over the years and I still haven’t found the blogging equivalent of prune juice.

Still to break tradition I thought I’d give you a present. Below is a video of a song I really like and one that sums up a lot of what is current in popular culture today. Everything is a copy, of a copy, of a copy to quote one of my favourite books.

The song is a cover version.
The video is a mash-up of a french classic movie and the song.
And if you reblog on tumblr, then this could become a reblog, of a reblog, of a reblog.

Filed Under: This site Tagged With:
«Older Posts