// archive
Category: Personal
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Braindump June 2013
Where exactly did June 2013 go?
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Braindump May 2013
Not for the first time i’ve found myself stepping back from Twitter most of this month, and when I got drawn in, I got very frustrated…
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Braindump March 2013
There seems to be a trend for free services shutting down recently – following the recent-ish announcements that Posterous (a kind of blog service with strong…
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Learning to touch type properly
So, one of my goals for this year was to learn to touch type. I pretty much ignored this goal until last week, when I opened…
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Analysis of my social media usage
Over the last couple of years i’ve tried to rationalise the way I use various social media sites, and I realised that how I use a…
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Mobile Claustrophobia
Just before xmas I installed the Path app out of curiosity, as I had noticed that a few of my friends were using it. It’s a…
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The life of a software engineer
I can’t remember where I saw this (twitter probably) a few weeks ago, but I can’t help laughing about this whenever I start a new project…
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Tell us about the browser wars grandpa!
After recently reading this blog post, I was reminiscing about the circuitous route that got me into web development. I’ve given a brief account of this…
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Keeping my developer mojo
I think it’s fair to say I lost my developer mojo for a while earlier this year. I don’t think it was any one particular thing,…
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Social media withdrawl tools part 1
I have occasional periods where for one reason or another I want to distance myself from social media for a bit. One of the things that…
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My Idea of March – a decentralised microblogging/ chat system
Chris Shiflett has suggested a blog revival, and i’m having one of those days, trapped between sorting out domestic chores and procrastination, and not being entirely…
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Signal and Noise
One of my goals for this year was to get back into playing bass and making music, and I have been doing just that – it’s…