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Part One draws to a close November 12th, 2005

Today, Part One of my blogging journey officially comes to a close.

It’s been an interesting 18 months.

Now is the time to move the focus and concentrate on new areas.

Thank you to everyone who has read and partipated so far.

This blog will be archived - feel free to browse through its almost 500 articles.

As a celebration of part one, I’ve produced an E-Book containing 67 of my favourite articles re-categorised.

It’s available for just GBP£5 and can be paid for using PayPal.

The book will be emailed to you within 48 hours of order receipt.

Articles Included:

  • Internet, Computing and Technology
  • Attractive fruit - but it’s not an Apple
  • Finding out something new about a friend
  • Peer-to-peer is not illegal
  • Contacts can be your worst spam enemies
  • Fascination with ring tones
  • Fasthosts timewasters
  • Companies: where are your emailing lists and news feeds?
  • Blogging
  • Perception of Bloggers
  • Mind Blogging: Could it happen and what consequences?
  • There’s mud over on the bad blogging mountain
  • Observational blogging
  • Brands
  • Coke launch a new drink - sound familiar?
  • Drowning in Cola
  • Moben Kitchens - setting the record straight
  • Please give some customer feedback
  • Want someone to swear outside your house?
  • Media
  • Sun’s Denial of Service Attack
  • Oi Kosminsky, is three times not enough?
  • iTax - legitimising piracy and hurting legitimate users
  • The Sun at it again: Breaking Geneva Convention?
  • Celebrity
  • Tracy’s “outrage” at smoky jokes
  • What did Phil Collins ever do to you?
  • Tony Blackburn suspended from Classic Gold
  • People
  • An Original Argument
  • Look darling, I bought some porn
  • New Commuter
  • Watching the obnoxious man and his long-suffering daughter
  • Personal
  • Summer Illnesses
  • Reminiscing: Childhood Days
  • Pillow Fight
  • Officially a coffee snob
  • What is a pastoral activist?
  • Health
  • Too much water!
  • Encouraging stress
  • Riding the Tube in hot weather
  • Business
  • Staying local and building community
  • If you’re selling toast: Business contingency
  • Home Issues
  • Strike
  • F4J Rights or Responsibilities?
  • Discreet Fathers 4 Justice?
  • BBC Strike; Tube strike; public services strike; the public suffer most
  • Innocence lost: child violence and murder
  • London shaken by explosions on Tube and bus
  • London shaken by terrorist attacks
  • Two weeks on: innocent evacuations or worse?
  • Defiance, bravery, stupidity
  • Man shot dead: Still Terrorism
  • The terrorist actions of the Animal Liberation Front
  • World Issues
  • Trophies of War?
  • Morally Speaking
  • First Iraq, now Afghanistan
  • Boycotting USA
  • Trials on British soldiers for alleged Iraqi abuses
  • Attitudes
  • Homosexuality: Responding with love not statistics
  • Prejudging motives and never giving money
  • The “Chav” Haters
  • Funny
  • Blended Car
  • This photocopier is destined to break down
  • Rants, Dislikes and Stupidity
  • It’s my station and I’ll be quiet if I want to
  • Hoax Central - Disseminating Disinformation
  • Neanderthals on the Tube
  • Commuters, clumsiness and silence
  • Scoble throws a wobbly tantrum about RSS feeds
  • The British drinking culture and exclusions
  • Last time for Formula One in USA?
  • Denton and Calacanis - who cares?
  • Getting personal on reality talent shows

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Under surveillance? November 9th, 2005

Since I wrote my article about a ficticious award which I then gave to B****u v*n D***, I think I have been put under surveillance, in case my incredibly subversive comments about web standards escalate into, errr, comments about, hmmm, PHP? Databases?

Anyway…

The good people who “won” the award have visited me at least 6 times in the past day:

9th November 2005

  • 10.21am - direct link (bookmark?) - 1 page view
  • 11.10am - direct link - 2 page views
  • 11.56am - direct link - 2 page views
  • 11.57am - direct link - 4 page views
  • 12.45pm - searched Google for web idiots award (it’s not real!) -1 page view
  • 12.52pm - searched Google again for the same phrase -5 page views
  • 2.48pm - searched Google yet again!
  • 3.10pm - 1 page views
  • 3.46pm - 3 page views
  • 3.46pm -2 page views
  • 4.14pm - 1 page view
  • 4.29pm - 1 page view
  • 5.22pm - 23 page views
  • 5.27pm - 14 page views
  • 5.37pm - 11 page views
  • 6.05pm - 5 page views
  • 6.09pm - 1 page view
  • 6.18pm - 3 page views
  • 6.26pm - 3 page views
  • 6.57pm - 9 page views
  • 7.53pm - 1 page view

I’m really not keeping a diary about your company. I only responded to the comment of one of your employees/directors. It’s not worth observing me!

Honest!

I’ll be back to Microsoft before you know it…

Update

It seems I’ve attained some form of notoriety at BvD, because people have been saving the original web page on their hard disk. Yes, really!

How can I tell? Because they then think “Wow, this is a cool site” (hmm, maybe not) and click through to a live Internet page, leaving a referral trace on my web log.

This is not cracking by the way, this is publicly-available information. “Andromeda” seems particularly interested in my work,

I am also on their E drive, which I am guessing is a network drive. Hmm, am I on their Intranet, too?

Really, honestly, truly, it’s not that exciting!

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Alive and busy November 4th, 2005

Just to let you know that I am still alive, well and very busy. This site has been a bit quiet of late due to work commitments, other online activities, Blue Fish Network support, and general life.

I’m currently assessing the direction and aims of this site, so there might be some changes coming… then again there might not. I haven’t any firm plans as yet.

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