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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 August [...]

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 post to [...]

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 light [...]

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.

2010: The Year I'll Never Forget

I've only managed to write up my thought on the previous years twice (2009, 2007), but this year was one of, if not the, most important year of my life.