From the monthly archives:

March 2008

If you happened to be near Salisbury Cathedral on Saturday, there was something more inspiring than the towering spire. It was raining teddy bears from the skies. Along with a lot of actual rain. It was part of a charity campaign, and my youngest son (who loves teddy bears) had his make two jumps (because [...]

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This one’s for David Krane — promised him I’d finally get this posted. Remember that business about Microsoft wanting to buy Yahoo? It made the news here in the UK, Sky News. Watching the news that night (after a long day of writing about the story myself), I about spit out my Diet Coke when [...]

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I figured it was time for an update on the Big Move Back To California. Before I start, let’s have a movie! Check out the clip below (sorry, I can’t get it to stop playing automatically), and you’ll understand some of the pain I’ve had in front of me the past few months: var so [...]

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Richard Branson, where are you? Do you even care about the mess your formerly good airline, Virgin Atlantic, has become. Are you so content praise from the Virgin America fanboys that what happens on your flagship carrier matters not, anymore? I guess they’ll learn, as things degrade over there as well. Here’s a little rant [...]

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Last week, I did my own personal account of how it felt to have left newspapers behind to do blogging and the perceived rivalries but also support between them. Guess there’s a meme going around. Today, the New Yorker has a nice article looking at the seeming coming death of newspapers and how blogs like [...]

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Way back in June 2006, I blogged about Doing The Blogger Diet. Lots of bloggers were trying to lose weight and being public about it. I thought that would be a good motivator. For the past three days, I’ve been below my original goal weight of 11 1/2 stones, or 160 pounds. I finally get [...]

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I’ve had a Gmail account since the day they were first offered, back in April 2004. Then at the end of 2006, I opened up a new Google-hosted mail account under my own domain name using Google Apps, which I highly recommend. It provided me with all the great archiving and spam filtering that made [...]

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There’s been noise this week about the rivalry between competing blogs as well as the rivalry between blogs and the mainstream media. I found myself reflecting on all of this from the perspective of someone who has worked in both places, who has a great love of online reporting but also deeply appreciates the in-depth [...]

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With my desktop out of action, I’m currently on my new MacBook Pro as I’ve written, making use of its internal screen to run things on the Mac side and one of my external screens to run Windows apps. It annoys me that my two other monitors as you can see in the picture above [...]

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It’s been just over a week since we decided to make the move back to Orange County from Britain, and I thought I’d keep blogging about how it is all going. So far, the big relief is that the kids are totally on board. Like they want to be there now. It’s kind of fun, [...]

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