Blogging
Largely older posts, mini blog entries and memes from the past… a vault of dusty nonsense.
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25 Years
25 years A long, long time agoI can still remember how that musicUsed to make me smileAnd I knew if I had my chanceThat I could make those people danceAnd maybe they’d be happy for a while American Pie by Don McLean I can sing many songs (badly) word for word, the full version of…
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Hello 2024
Woke up, got out of bed, dragged a comb across my head. Well, I would’ve but for one thing I’m not in a Beatles song, and more pertinently I have no hair on my head, something my 2 year old son recently confirmed to me when, upon being asked if Daddy had hair on his…
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It’s that time of year again
When bloggers start to compile lists, pulling their worldly-wise thoughts together into recaps, looking ahead at the looming calendar change and all that it brings with it (or not if that’s what floats your boat). I don’t get much time to write these days as the bulk of the content I create is for my…
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And the keys go clack
Blocked. Stuck. Static. Nothing. OK, that’s four very similar words, that’s a start. Let’s build on that. There must be something I can write about. Somewhere. Come on brain, let’s do this. There is something in there somewhere. You know how this works. Starting writing. The words will come. Won’t they? I read an article…
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21 years
On the 2nd of June, 1999, I wrote about Sunglasses. Once I’d written it I opened an HTML page template I had created by hand, pasted the text in, formatted it using the few HTML tags I had available, updated all the site links to include the new post (I had a sidebar back then…
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The Recap: March 2020
Safe to say that March will be memorable for one thing and one thing only. Coronavirus and lockdown. It’s meant adjusting routines, and whilst I’m working the hours are dropping. We remain in good spirits though and if nothing else it’s given me time to crack on with some other things, including a revisit of…