Your correspondent

“She was funny. Yet despite my feelings for her, I realised that I would have preferred a letter to her presence. Is this pathology due to the predominance of written correspondence in my life? Rare are those whose physical presence is preferable to one of their letters – assuming, of course, that they have a [...]

Meme-me

I haven’t done a meme post for a while, but I saw this one over at cheeseweb and thought I’d give it a go, mostly because it’s a thinly-veiled excuse to link back to posts from my own archive.   Your first post Well, it was a fairly dull “Ooh, look! I’ve got a blog!” [...]

Four more years!

This nonsense has been going on for four whole years now. To the day. Can you believe it? Five top posts, in terms of views, are: Maison et Confort Sarnie Party Fork Handles Theme tune The thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to Which is not to say that people have read them or [...]

IRL

I have about 40 blogs in my feed reader. Is that a lot? I have no idea. Then again, about half of them post pretty infrequently, so it’s not like I have to catch up with 40 people’s doings every day, or even every week. Of these: 4 are people I knew in real life [...]

Georgia on my mind

I’m sure you’ve all been there: someone you were at school with but haven’t heard from since then gets in touch via Facebook. You exchange pleasantries, a few reminisences, discover that you still have some things in common (an office job, marriage, kids, but probably not much else), and then it all goes quiet. But [...]

Sprung

Yes, I’ve changed my blog design/layout-thingy. I also plan to get my hair cut soon. It’s that time of year. Brussels is going through something of a…well, not a heatwave as such – more of a “springwave”.  I wasn’t quite ready for it – in fact I was more than a little resentful, and was [...]

Snap!

My blog has a built-in feature called “snapshots”, provided by a company called Snap. If you hover over a link,  up pops a small window with a preview of that site’s content, so you don’t even have to leave Simon Says (why would you, ever?) in order to see what I’m linking to. But it [...]

Keeping track

I like to plan ahead. I don’t mean that I want every minute of every day for the next twelve months mapped out, leaving no room for serendipity, chance, or mood swings. It’s more about the fact that I have a terrible memory so I need to write down upcoming events in order to keep track [...]

Twits

Today I started following Stephen Fry’s twitter account. What surprised me was that he immediately started following me too. After an exchange of sarcastic emails with a friend, I learnt that some people have their accounts set up so that they automatically start following anyone who follows them. In the case of someone as popular as [...]

Bloggers beware

I was asked at the last minute to sit in on a meeting this morning. I fully expected this legal briefing on Intellectual Property Rights to be an almighty snooze, and was counting on the coffee provided to keep me awake, but it proved to be unexpectedly interesting. One point in particular caught my attention: the legality [...]