“Just keep your eyes open and your mouth shut”
“I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you’re afraid to the point where you censor yourself.”
[Tim Robbins ]
“I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you’re afraid to the point where you censor yourself.”
[Tim Robbins ]
Over the past few days I’ve been reading a great many posts on the subject of blogging, from how to grow a young blog to finding topics for regular posts. It’s been an eye-opening experience for me to see just how many sites are out there, solely dedicated to helping bloggers when they are both [...]
*the making-a-name-for-yourself kind, not the stick-a-hot-poker-on-yourself kind
I’ve been reading tonight about personal branding: how you can create an online persona and ‘brand’ for yourself, be it through the kind of web content you offer, or the style of it. And I’ve come to the realisation that even those of us who don’t actively consider our [...]
This is an old Body Shop tote bag that I bought years ago. It’s been serving as a pegbag now for I don’t know how long, and is grubby with age. The quote still holds true, though:
Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. [...]
Oscar the cat is both comfort and warning. When he curls up beside a patient in the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, the nurses know to contact the patient’s relatives, for their loved one will pass away within the next four hours. Oscar is uncannily accurate, predicting 25 deaths so far, and meowing and [...]
The words of a friend, on her blog, in reference to the imminent release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
I’m afraid I must disagree with her. It’s much more than a book. A whole generation has grown up with Harry Potter. He was there with them at school, he was there when they got [...]
Petition seeks extra Potter books (BBC)
Harry Potter fans are being urged to sign a petition set up by a book shop chain begging author JK Rowling to write further novels in the series [...] Waterstone’s is hoping to gather a million signatures for its Save Harry campaign to change the author’s mind [...] Mr Winstone, [...]
I’m trying out a new program for this post. Blogdesk is a client that allows posting to multiple blogging platforms, such as Wordpress and Movable Type. One of the banes of hosting more than one blog (I have several: one for this identity, one for my professional identity, plus another travel blog and a general [...]
I took this photo last night, just around midnight. The sky looked amazing, and when I loaded the picture into PSP, the moon was so bright that it looked like the sun. I’m rather pleased with the way it turned out.