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Gum, snack, meal
16, Jun 2009A Twitterer described their various online presences as so: Twitter was like chewing gum, Tumblr was a snack, and their blog was a meal.
Twitter is for short messages. Less than 140 characters, little mini brain freeps. Or, you, know, bringing down the Iranian government.
Tumblr, or the service I use, Posterous, is a middleweight tool for [...]
It’s a Big Wide World
9, Feb 2009I have set up a new blog called Big Wide World. Unlike this blog, which is a completely unfocussed compendium of my random brainfarts and rants, Big Wide World is about the environment, sustainability, technology and development. These are four separate but interrelated themes, central to my International Studies degree, topical, relevant, big, important, confusing, [...]
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- Tags: blog, development, environment, sustainability, technology
I heart Wordpress
11, Dec 2008Wordpress 2.7 is now available, and it is beautiful. What you’re reading now doesn’t look any different (well, for the time being), but the dashboard at the back end, what lets me write all this inconsequential drivel, has been radically altered. It looks more compact, softer, just beautiful, but also seems to look more like [...]
Oversharing
19, Oct 2008Every so often I write a blog entry so loaded with bile that I come back to it fifteen minutes later and delete it, feeling foolish that I wrote it. Sometimes, I write something harsh or sweary or just plain unfunny and I’m tempted to do the same, even get rid of the whole blog, [...]
New look, same tripe!
12, Aug 2008Because I’m not travelling at the moment, and because I had something else I should have been doing, I changed the name of the blog back to it’s pre-Carry On Up The Mekong name and gave it a new look. All the ill-informed rants, casual insults of religion, highly amusing videos of cats and the [...]
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