Posted on April 21, 2008 by simonlitton
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 [...]
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Posted on February 18, 2008 by simonlitton
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 [...]
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Posted on February 14, 2008 by simonlitton
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, [...]
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Posted on February 11, 2008 by simonlitton
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…), [...]
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Posted on February 8, 2008 by simonlitton
Mr Nice Guy has un-retired.
This makes me happy.
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Posted on February 4, 2008 by simonlitton
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 [...]
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Posted on January 28, 2008 by simonlitton
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 [...]
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Posted on January 9, 2008 by simonlitton
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 [...]
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Posted on December 3, 2007 by simonlitton
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 [...]
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Posted on October 16, 2007 by simonlitton
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 [...]
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