Archive for the 'Personal' Category

My 2012

This will be my 5th year review post – so I’m definitely in my tradition shoes now. At the end of each year, I round up what I’ve been up to personally and professionally and try to set my sights on the upcoming year. This post is primarily for me so I can look back [...]

My 2011

It’s now a bit of a tradition with a year end blog post (almost entirely so I can look back and actually remember myself!), so today I post my summary of 2011 and what’s happened for me both in my work and personally. In short, this year has still been hard after losing Tia in [...]

I like Instagram, but it’s not as open as I’d like it to be

So here’s how I got around that, and how I’m using Instagram today. I always held off installing Instagram because I felt it was another black hole to post my pictures to and friends and family viewing my pictures used Flickr. When I visited Portland earlier in 2011, Petra showed me indeed it could automatically [...]

Ellis Tennyson Sharp

September 29 2011, at 11:14am Ellis Tennyson Sharp graced us with his arrival and said hello to his mummy and daddy.

On changing my avatar

I joined twitter around early 2007 and during those early months I toyed with a number of different avatars. At some point I settled on the avatar I have now – just a quick snap of me in front of my desktop. However, as the years went on, I got chubbier, I usually sport a [...]

In memory of Tia

When Tia was born last year, through the pain of losing her, Julie and I promised ourselves that something good must come of this tragedy.

My Big Workshop Tour

Last year, a few months before Julie and I were due with Tia, I thought about running a workshop tour. Something where I could offer the web community training, whilst simultaneously seeing more of our grand postage stamp of a country. Here’s why and the plan, and I want your input.