ThePickards
standards, accessibility, and ranting and general stuff by the web chemist

…no, this isn’t the cue for some sort of set of racist jokes about how “all them foreigners talk funny, don’t they”, it’s an idea for a blog post.
Basically, the idea is to write a blog post for Sunday 1st June — about whatever it is I would fancy writing about in a particular day […]

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Once again, back is the incredible
The rhyme animal
The incredible JackP, public enemy number oneAlmost Public Enemy’s “Bring The Noise”
Okay, I’ve been away for nine days or suchlike. Bizarrely, I’ve not actually been away as such, I’ve just been completely and utterly shagged out is I think the appropriate term.
The GLW has been poorly, the kids […]

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I do most humbly beseech your apologies, one and all, because… well… that’s really the point isn’t it. I humbly beseech the apologies of most of you, but definitely not all.
I am afraid that I have switched off by default the feature on my blog that allows it to recognise pings and trackbacks and treat […]

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As the more astute amongst you may have noticed, I have upgraded my ‘blogging engine’ to Wordpress 2.5.
I’d been keen to upgrade for a number of reasons.
Partly because I’m a techie, and being a techie I feel obliged to try and upgrade to the latest versions of stuff as soon as is practical (but ideally […]

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Garfield Minus Garfield. Appropriate credit for the spot must be given to Thea, as this is simply genius. A journey into the tortured mind of an isolated young everyman, the question is what Jon Arbuckle’s world is like if Garfield didn’t actually exist…
Next we have Ewan McIntosh’s Edublogs. I came across Ewan at the Web […]

Read: Recent Discoveries »

I just noticed the other day that according to my Wordpress stats, I’d written 512 posts, or 29 posts.
Now that’s not entirely accurate, as I was blogging with Blogger prior to Wordpress, and I didn’t copy all of my posts over, but just taking that as a marker, that means that since my first […]

Read: Pickards to the power 9 »

It’s an interesting question, and it’s one that is going to be asked more and more often in the coming years.
What happens when the boundaries between personal and professional identity start to blur?
On this site — and indeed in other locations — I tend not to mention who I work for, other than that it’s […]

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Many people I know — generally a bunch of relatively well educated and IT literate people look down somewhat on “social networking applications” such as MySpace, Facebook, Bebo and all that sort of stuff. The Blognescenti would rather carefully craft their own posts through some blogging engine (ideally not blogger) and serve them up to […]

Read: Facebook vs Web Snobbery »

It occurred to me today that I regularly read about fifteen blogs. And that regularly I find interesting posts on other blogs that I’m pointed at (normally if someone’s made an interesting comment on my site or on a site I read). But I probably don’t go back to them often enough.
Some — like Escape […]

Read: Blog Exploration Meme »

Apparently it’s ten years since the word “weblog” was coined. It was as this sort of time in 1997 that people actually started to maintain online diaries (even if at the time they were frequently just lists of other interesting sites). It then took another two years for “we” to be dropped from the front, […]

Read: Blogs Are 10 »