Blogging

A quick blogging update and a prospective new series

August 3, 2010

Blogging has been very light for the last ten days as I’ve been taking a break from pretty much everything, work included. I’ve written almost nothing and read comparatively few blogs. Mainly I’ve walked, window-shopped, read light trashy novels, watched vacuous TV and films, and caught up with some friends. I’m sorry, therefore, if I’ve [...]

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This blog’s first birthday – or last?

June 7, 2010

Today this blog is one year old. Oddly that anniversary coincides with: A certain ennui on my part, with an awareness that the blog has somewhat lost focus in the last few months. A post which has significantly increased in workload and responsibilities, while the voluntary ministries have also increased. A sense that what has [...]

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Was this an attempted hack?

June 4, 2010

Longer term readers will remember that not long after this blog got started it got hacked. I’m wondering if someone tried again this week. I had a very odd set of stats when in the space of a couple of hours a very high proportion of visits were registered, while at the same time no [...]

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Orange Digital Campaigning Awards (NOT) #orangedigitalawards (SORT OF)

May 31, 2010

I was tagged by the Church Mouse with Matt Wardman’s new meme-type gentle protest against the somewhat arbitrary process of the Orange Digital Campaign Awards. Matt is after some more grassroots ideas of good campaigns during the elections. Somewhat ironically this doesn’t (as I chased a number of the tagged people down) this doesn’t seem [...]

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Stupid comments, and simple house rules

May 3, 2010

I have very few house rules for comments Be relevant to the post. Be courteous to the poster and other commenters. Use a real name or established identity. I don’t mind a nickname if it links to a blog where I can see who you are. I don’t mind a pseudonym that links to a [...]

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A brief (and sad) links update

April 12, 2010

I’ve been forced to prune my weblinks. A very sad goodbye to the Beaker Folk of Husborne Crawley – one of the funniest satires on Church life and its trivia around. Tim Ricchuiti seems to have switched all his thoughts from Blogger to Twitter. And James Crossley seems simply to have given up blogging with [...]

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The joy of search – what did they want?

March 13, 2010

I took a look today in a lighter moment at some of the search terms people have been using lately. There were some real gems. To the person who searched for “how do you type actual faces”: you don’t – use a camera instead. If, however, you were looking for how to make smilies, then [...]

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An apology and a re-evaluation

March 13, 2010

My day job is changing – to the extent that with another colleague we’re having to pick up a departing colleague’s workload (she will not be replaced) and gain another parish as well. I’ve therefore been engaged in a fairly massive deck-clearing operation which has involved lots of shredding, throwing out of old material, a [...]

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A general apology and a delectation of blogs for your consideration

March 5, 2010

I’m sorry I haven’t been finding much time lately, not so much to blog, as to interact in one way or another with so many excellent blog posts around the place. I even failed to moderate a comment for over 12 hours today, so a particular apology to her archdruity for that. In the meantime, [...]

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Is this bad blogging manners or not?

January 28, 2010

There are all sorts of issues of netiquette that regularly come round for discussion, but I think I’ve found a new one. Michael Gorman posted a private password-protected class discussion on his blog today. Now, obviously, at one level it’s his blog, and he can do what he wants with it, without regard for any [...]

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