I Ain’t Dead
This site has been quiet and sporadically updated for a while. It’s partly down to sheer damn busyness work-wise, and partly down to the strange blogging hiatus that seems to strike most my fellow inmates at Headshift - there’s something about working with social software professionally that seems to suppress the blogging urge personally. Which is strange, because it’s not like I’m any shorter on opinions than I’ve ever been before. Maybe a 21st century manifestation of the old saw about cobblers’ children.
Originally a lot of the content here came from various “professional” incarnations of the blog, and my original “personal” blog was kept separate. Then that personal blog disappeared when I rationalised my domain names. I came across a SQL backup at the weekend and found myself thinking “why not put that lot back online?” - not that it will be of any interest to anyone other than me, but the last few years have been quite busy to put it mildly, and it’s kind of interesting to plough back through my archives and see what I was up to. Plus I’ve been browsing through the bios of fellow LIFT ‘08 participants and feeling very inadequate on the blog front.
The downside is that things are now messy - the archives are all over the place, some of the content is personal and some of the content is written from a “we” point of view as it was talking about company-related stuff. Not that this means it makes a lot more sense than usual, but it’s probably even less likely to be stumbled across than it ever was before.
The template has changed, too - I’ve lost the frog for a while and I’m back to a stock template which will get tweaked a bit over time. But only when inspiration strikes, so it might be a while.
Filed under General | Comment (0)Ming the clam is ‘oldest animal’
I can’t help thinking that there’s a certain irony here:
Scientists said the mollusc, an ocean quahog clam, was aged between 405 and 410 years and could offer insights into the secrets of longevity.
Researchers from Bangor University in north Wales said they calculated its age by counting rings on its shell.
Of course we only know this because the clam’s been dredged up and, er, killed.
Filed under General | Comment (0)September 15th
Apparently I share my birthday with the 72nd anniversary of the Nuremburg Laws, the 23rd birthday of celebrity-Nazi-armband-wearing freeloader HRH Prince Harry Hewitt of Wales - and the 10th birthday of Google…
Filed under General | Comment (0)Oh, woe, we’ll have to walk
“Millions of commuters in London are enduring rush-hour misery as Tube workers continue a 72-hour walkout over pensions and jobs” bleats BBC News, in a sorry-to-the-Daily-Mail-for-stealing-your-subediting-standards kind of way. Which is a prime example of grade inflation in the news world - “misery” is starvation, warfare and clinical depression. “Inconvenience” and “annoyance” is a 72-hour tube strike. I lost patience with my fellow lumpen-commutariat when I heard an indignant woman complaining on her mobile last night - “he said, like, if the tubes weren’t running I had to, like, walk to work, and it’s like, a mile actually. I was just, like, whatever”…
Filed under General | Comment (0)If Richard Rogers made toys…
If Richard Rogers was a toymaker…
…they’d look something like this.
Filed under General | Comment (0)Testing Mobiblogr
This is a test post from Mobiblogr, a Windows Mobile blog client…
- Posted by MobiBlogr from mobile phone.
Filed under General | Comment (0)Should I feel insulted?
Just before I left for Reboot, I got a confirmation email that I’d been “accepted” for the BBC archive trial. Then I went to Reboot, and everybody I talked to had been rejected. And now I’m not sure whether I should be flattered to be accepted, or insulted that I’m clearly so completely ungeeky and old that I hit their target demographic!
Filed under General | Comment (0)RSS in Plain English
