I can list several indictors as proof of this post’s importance: I’ve been drafting it in my head for days, and then in a Word document (as opposed to straight into the WordPress dashboard), which I’ve kept revisiting, sitting down and looking over these words. Towards the end of last year, and I’ve touched on…
I was listening to Chris Guillebeau speak at a blogging conference last year when he said something that struck me quite hard. He was talking about his life before his blogging really hit its straps; the phrase he used was “convergence”. He lacked it, therefore things felt quite orbital, haphazard. However, when his goals and…
In an effort to properly finish the posts I mark ‘Saved for Later’ in Feedly, I regularly feature the best, most interesting, weird, disturbing, compelling or important of these to share with you. Here is a first person account of the events of the infamous 1938 The War of the Worlds broadcast, adapted by Orson…
Until almost two weeks ago, I was trying to be more consistent when it comes to running in an effort to shift some winter weight and see how easily I can make it fit into my regular routine. News flash: it’s hard. Then I did my sacroiliac joint and those plans went belly up while I…
In reverse order: 6. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone It goes to show the bounty and generosity of Rowling’s imagination (not to mention skill) that she can make room in her epic fantastical world for the Hogwarts annual Hallowe’en Feast, such as she does in this book (and a couple of the others). If…
Look, I’m just going to admit straight away, hands up, I surrender, that I have compulsive tendencies. Thanks, anxiety. You’re swell. I might tell myself the iron is turned off 99 times, but I won’t believe it until that 100th go. And only then that’s because I went and checked the damn thing. So how…
As a great many people have been queuing up to buy the latest release iPhone 5s or 5c, or updating to iOS 7, I thought it would be a good time to share some of my favourite apps that I use for blogging. I’ve not upgraded to iOS 7 yet, but Adam has, and the…
In an effort to properly finish the posts I mark ‘Saved for Later’ in Feedly, I regularly feature the best, most interesting, weird, disturbing, compelling, important or all of the above to share with you. Please don’t try to turn the Star Trek movies into Deep Space 9 appeared over at io9. Lauren Davis begins:…
In preparing for writing my novel again, I’ve been listening to a lot of the music I was listening to as a teenager. It’s actually been quite an emotional, even somewhat cathartic, exercise. I might write more in-depth about it at some point, but today I thought I would cobble together some ‘noteworthy’ mentions. These…
