Journal
Longer-form writing. Things I’ve maybe been mulling over for a while. There is no pre-determined topic — I could end up writing about anything really.
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100 Days : Day Five (96)
I think I may be addicted to playing Bitcoin Billionaire. It’s annoying because I know it’s a waste of time and yet I still find myself tapping away like a mad person. Discovered a new album through some random listens today — Sex Dreams and Denim Jeans by Uffie. From the first song on this…
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100 Days : Day Four (97)
Slept in till 10:40. In the early afternoon we went for a run around Kingsbury Water Park. A load of the water’s-edge trees have been cut down, not sure why though. When we got there it was nice to see that the car park was pretty empty – no masses of people to avoid when…
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100 Days : Day Three (98)
Today I saw possibly the worst film of my life – Dirty Grampa – at Vue, Star City. I think in parts the humour actually offended me. I couldn’t believe this was the same guy I’d seen in Jackie Brown. On a more positive note, me and Liz did go for a nice meal at…
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100 Days : Day Two (99)
My fish and chips have just arrived. Currently sat in Sainsbury’s cafe once again. My nectar points are gonna be through the roof by Christmas. I’m thinking about restarting the ecommerce CMS I started for my last 100 days attempt. Except this time not part of the 100 days. Cant help thinking it’s a waste…
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100 Days : Day One (100)
Mid last year I heard about the idea of the 100 days project. In a nutshell, you pick some form of creative pursuit — no matter how simple or complex — and commit to performing that action every day for 100 days. I put the idea to some co workers. One person out of a…
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On writing my album reviews
Three weeks ago I launched a new website side-project. This was a purely creative outlet for me, doing something I’ve wanted to do for a while — write album reviews. Well, they’re not specifically reviews; more like recommendations. When I hear albums I want to share with people, I now try to write a little…
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Inner critics and just getting on with it
I have just written this post and then lost it without saving. I am annoyed. That said, I’ll try and rewrite without rushing too much. I’m always tinkering around with this website. As a result I tend to sometimes get bored with it. I feel the design just looks dull and uninspired, and find that…
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What Is The IndieWeb And Why We Need It
Facebook, Twitter, Google plus – all places that help you to publish easily – and for free – on the web. But guess what, the web is already free – or at least it should be – and many people’s only notion of publishing on the web is through one of these, or other, third…
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Implementing Jams
Jams were a type of content popularized by the website This is my jam. This is my jam has since gone into read-only archive mode. This is such a great way of closing a website — especially one whose content is mostly community-created. I started to use the site at the end of last year…
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On rethinking my database structure
I’ve been using Laravel for my personal website for about eight months now and haven’t looked back since. This huge advantage to my rebuilding it in that way — from its original WordPress foundations — was that I had a crash course in using Laravel as well as learning some best practices as well. Now…
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Facebook is a cancer on the web
I commute into Birmingham each day to work and see people on there phones and tablets passing the time. I’m a bit of a nosy git, so I can’t help but take a glance at what they’re looking at. I’m always disheartened when I see — most of the time — it ends up being…
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100 days 2015 – 10 days in
For the past ten days I have been doing the 100 day challenge. I decided to have a go at building my own e-commerce CMS. I don’t have a big passion for e-commerce. In fact most of the time I work with e-commerce it frustrates me. But then I always remember hearing the old saying:…