A few days ago, I read on the BBC that Twitter was now enjoying the tweet smell of success. Use of Twitter, the mobile phone-based micro-blogging service, rocketed nearly 1,000% in the UK over the past year, according to industry analysts HitWise. For the first time, the site has seen more visits than “social bookmarking” [...]

News of high-achieving children, exotic holidays and pay rises are being dropped through letter-boxes across the nation, tucked inside a Christmas card. But is the annual round-robin letter a welcome way for busy people to stay in touch, or an unsolicited irritationBBC Magazine I have to admit, I’m not a fan of these round robin [...]

Well, I finally got around to upgrading wordpress to the latest version. I have not generally kept updated with the ultra latest, ultra up-to-date version, and generally find that I’ve had the wordpress ‘nag’ visible on the dashboard, but there was a very specific reason for upgrading to this version. Firstly was the new customisability: [...]

As (kind of) suggested by Christophe, here is a run down on the meme’s I’ve taken part in during 2008. More Memey Ness (February 25th) Six Word Memoir (March 3rd) Nerd-dom Meme (March 17th) Music IQ Meme (April 25th) Films I’ve Not Seeny Memey (June 26th) The Most Random List Of Favourites You’ll Ever See [...]

I have been awarded the legendary Blog Nog award for having an intoxicating blog that Chartroose has enjoyed reading, laughing at, and discussing in the previous year. What can I say? Obviously it’s a great honour to receive such an award, but it’s important to remember that this award is not just for me, but [...]

Someone asked me the other day “how many people read your blog?”. As I felt my answer (“er… I dunno, really”) lacked that certain something, I decided that it was worth having a poke around in my site statistics to see what I can find out. My site statistics program was defaulting to show all [...]

I took an online personality test, primarily because Rachel had done it. I wasn’t that impressed with it: I thought it was drawing an awful lot of inferences from quite a short set of questions. So I decided not to post about that. Instead, Rachel pointed out that there is also another quiz on there [...]

Do you have difficulty sustaining an election? This is part ‘election blog’ and part ‘how long can I stay awake blog’. I won’t be publishing it immediately either, on the basis that I don’t imagine people will be coming here to try and find the results of the US Election, and that as I get [...]

No, it’s not some kind of mis-spelled Mork and Mindy reference. No, it’s that I’m taking part in NaNoWriMo and NaBloPoMo. As Steve points out (a fellow NaBloPoMo participant), these sound like sections of Judoon dialogue. However, they are in fact writing challenges. I’ll start with the simplest. This is NaBloPoMo, which I am taking [...]

I came across a site the other day that allows you to apparently determine what rating your blog would have if it was a film. Obviously, it just scans through what it can find on your home page, rather than looking at the in-depth content, but apparently I qualify for parental guidance. This rating was [...]