Ra ra ra right. In my everlasting quest to produce create produce create I sometimes feel the need to put something out there despite not having any particular burning topics to talk about. Sometimes I read a thing and it sounds deep and interesting, and maybe I won’t even understand it all, but I will [...]
Soon I’m running an Introduction to HTML workshop in Southampton – see my previous blog post if you’re interested! I saw recently a video by Google about “Project Glass”, their vision of the near-future in which augmented reality technology has graduated from that little box in your pocket and is now literally right in front [...]
At some point in the next couple of months I’ll be leading a workshop on How To Do HTML. The cost of the workshop will be £5 per person, and the date will be announced once I know three or four people are interested. The class will be small and informal, and will cover the [...]
Well now that I’m not really going to talk about personal development any more I’m not really sure what direction to push this blog in. The well of metaphors seems to have dried up and I’m out of inspiration. So the question falls to you: is there anything you’d like me to blog about? Things [...]
This is the second part of my story about my addiction to personal development blogs. In the first part of my story I developed an unhealthy interest in personal development blogs. Then life turned, I got a house I liked, had some good friends, found a job, and everything was fine. I did not need [...]
This is the story of my addiction to personal development blogs. In my final year at university I was struggling to balance my coursework with my hobbies – my favourite of which seemingly was to sit in my room staring into nothing and alternately thinking about and trying not to think about the essay on [...]
I don’t want to pretend that everything I did this year was a success, because it wasn’t. I’m only human and definitely prone to failure (something I’d like to actually do more often, if we’re honest). Things for other people There was a lot of stuff that I did last year not because I wanted [...]
Well 2012 I think is going to be a year of habits. Internet blogger Leo Babauta is a little bit of an inspiration to me. Bits of advice I picked up from his blog, Zen Habits, sort of helped me do a lot of the things I’ve done in the past couple of years, and [...]
So we’re coming to the end of 2011, and all of the blogs are starting to do that “what I did in the past 12 months” post. I’m going to do it slightly differently. Home sweet home I’m at my Dad’s house for Christmas this year. I sat down with my brother Adam today and [...]
Quit your job! Work from home! Be your own boss! What a load of bollocks. Step one: buy boat. If you want to cut loose from the moorings that keep you from drifting out to sea, make sure you’ve got a course planned first. Make sure you have a structure. This is different from um-ing [...]