Dadnet

At the grand old age of 70-and-a-half my father has bought a computer and set up an internet connection. He’s made contact with a friendly IT-support-type and enrolled on a beginners’ course, so hopefully he won’t encounter too many problems.
Now all I need to do is scour my blog archives and delete all those “I hate [...]

Q & A

Just in case you can’t get enough of me here, Karen has posted her interview (part of the Great Interview Experiment) with me over there.
 Quote: “Turns out he’s as cool as his blog hints him to be”. You’re too kind, Karen…
EDIT: High on interactivity and audience participation, I’ve volunteered at Citizen of the Month to interview [...]

Simon interviews Tiffany

 I first became aware of Neil’s “Great Interview Experiment” through reading V-grrrl and Di’s efforts. Being the outgoing, sociable guy that I am, I decided to jump in and take part. The idea is simple - Neil’s point is that everyone is worthy of being interviewed, not just people with a book or movie to promote, [...]

I’ve given up giving up

You don’t get rid of me that easily.
I’d had a less-than-great week and was feeling sorry for myself. I wrote a silly, self-pitying draft blog suicide note. I didn’t mean it.
Then another blogger I like came out of self-imposed retirement (see previous post). Then I signed up for Neil’s Great Interview Experiment (watch this space…), [...]

Sometimes they come back

Mr Nice Guy has un-retired.
This makes me happy.

Pause

Things will go quiet here for a little while (how long remains to be seen) as I try to decide whether or not I want to do this any more.
I’ll let you know one way or the other sometime later this month.
In case anyone else is feeling similarly ambivalent about their own blog, I highly [...]

In the flesh

On Saturday night I met, for the first time, some people who I’d only previously known through their blogs. A stray comment on V-grrrl’s blog led to an invitation to her almost-birthday party in Antwerp, hosted by her friend, the lovely Di, and also attended by the charming Peter.
I am happy to report that everyone [...]

I know what I like

An article I found this morning via Utne (which also reminded me of something posted a while back at Smattery) got me thinking about my comfort zone. I try to vary my media diet as much as possible, yet I still easily slip into a routine of checking only certain sites, reading only certain magazines, lurking [...]

Social animal

Where do your friends come from?
School is an obvious starting place, although, as I noted previously, I’m no longer in contact with anyone I knew back then (unless university counts as “school”). People I know at work are friendly, but probably fall more into the category of “acquaintances”,(or well-wishers, in that they wish me no specific [...]

No comment

So, I took my wife’s advice (as I always do) and managed to transfer the comments from their old LiveJournal home over to here using a charmingly retro technique called “cut and paste”.
Ok, so the results aren’t exactly pretty, and some of the hyperlinks seem to have got lost, necessitating a little editing in order [...]