February 14, 2010 – 12:55 pm
How many dead blogs will it take to kill us all?
I watched a documentary the other night about the state of the blogiverse.
There are, apparently, 1.2 billion blogs out there of which 95% are ‘dead’ (ie no activity for 3 or more months). This doesn’t even take into account the non-English speaking blogs – there [...]
January 27, 2010 – 5:45 pm
…this blog has been a little bit podcasty recently and not so much bloggy. Not that I mind – for me it’s a fine line (of code) betwixt the two. But for those that hate electronica and thumpy, dancey musicy stuff then a few moments of calm may be required.
Let us take a minute to [...]
January 4, 2010 – 5:29 pm
…as Nina Simone once said “it’s a new dawn, it’s a new day, it’s a new life and I’m feeling somewhat flaccid and a tad bilious.”
Ever since the sinus explosion incident of 2008, the prospect of getting a head cold has been slightly more daunting than for most people – the congestion tends to crawl [...]
October 22, 2009 – 9:21 pm
…doesn’t mean I’m lazy*.
2009 is drawing to an end – the clouds keep rolling in and the chlorophyll is slowly draining from the deciduous trees across the valley. It’s been a strange summer – a constant battle with ‘awkward’ clients that ended somewhat sourly and abruptly at 4.25 on a Wednesday afternoon. I feel my [...]
September 26, 2009 – 7:24 pm
…and you may be surprised what you see.
You can read as many namby-pamby spiritualistic Dao-esque publications as you like, telling you to ‘live in the moment’ or ‘become one with you inner self’ but you’ll never reach enlightenment. You can ‘Om’ yourself into a state of nausea or stick crystals up your Chakras till the [...]
September 15, 2009 – 7:41 pm
…there was silence in the ether.
It was good.
A light blinked in the dead of night and the worldwideweb became a squirming mass of html tables and font tags brimming with vital information, allegedly instantaneous communication and vast amounts of exasperation. People spent their time filling databases with facts and figures, sharing beige tinted documents and [...]
People assume that life in the mountains of Portugal is somehow exotic and mysterious – a heady blend of cheap vinho, ambling donkeys and a stout woman called Mafalda wandering past with a basket of laundry on her head. Of course at times this may be true but for the most part it is just [...]
…I’m wasn’t entirely sure what the silver lining was when my Vaio failed to boot up earlier last week – even the cloud was fairly difficult to see at first. There was no fanfare, no explosion or fire. No error message or even a small fizzing noise. Just nothing…
I wiggled and tweaked, I thought laterally, [...]
…please send answers on a postcard to the ‘Penfold doesn’t know what to write about competition’.
Prizes may include:
A post dedicated to you.
A pair of DaddyP’s underpants (chemically cleaned by professionals).
A free subscription to Twitter.
Private surf lessons from Tango in a bikini.
Breast enhancement surgery from the Penfold carpentry workshop.
Of course several of the above answers may [...]
The majority of people cruising into middle-age might mark the transition with an instigation of a pension plan or buying some nice brown slacks. I realised today that I may be in the midst of some form of denial period of my life and although my cranial follicle count is dwindling on a daily basis [...]
