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Congratulations to my Kevin

August 17, 2006

I'm chuffed as a small horse to announce that Kevin, my T'Other, has a new job working as Head of Blogging and Interaction for The Guardian. We are both delighted about this as it's going to be a fantastic opportunity for him to really get his teeth into blogging and community projects, moreso than he's [...]

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Blood, Sweat & Tea

August 8, 2006

I had a little package turn up in the post this morning – a copy of Tom Reynolds' new book, Blood, Sweat & Tea. I was on my way out to give a presentation, so I took it with me to open on the Tube. Like Euan Semple, despite being a reader of Tom's for [...]

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Happy Blogday!

July 12, 2006

Happy First Blogday to Steve! Glad you're still with us after all this time.

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The guilt of forbidden love

June 30, 2006

If this photo doesn't rend your heart with pity, nothing will. (Ta Kevin.)

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Blog-City killed my old blog

May 8, 2006

Blog-City, the blog host I used for the second incarnation of Chocolate and Vodka (after Blogger went all crap) have summarily killed my archives. I have the data, but no way to import it into Blogware, or to make it publicly available, so I am a bit peeved that a chunk of my online past [...]

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A fairly complete update

May 1, 2006

If you've been wondering what I've been doing, workwise, of the last few months, and want a fairly full and comprehensive update, then I've put it over on Blogiculum Vitae, my portfolio blog.

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Four things (for Tom)

January 27, 2006

I just read this in my aggregator, and from the opening syllables realised I could steal it. Almost verbatim. Including the disclaimer at the top. Then I got to the bottom and realised I was supposed to. Possibly apart from the disclaimer at the top. I'm doing this for Heather Tom and for anyone who [...]

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Back to the beginning

January 10, 2006

When I first started reading blogs, I only read a few. A handful. Then I found through those few blogs a whole host of others. More and more and more. Wonderful, intelligent, amusing, interesting… A world of fascination. Then I got work. Now I hardly have time to read all the blogs that are in [...]

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Is he cute or is he British?

November 21, 2005

This is just too funny not to pass on: The Morning News, Is He Cute Or Is He British? I once spent a happy, drunken evening with my English friend Debs and our Welsh friend Aaron, sitting in Debs' lounge in Trefor, north Wales, making Aaron repeat the words 'guarantee', 'Llanrwst', and the phrase 'it's [...]

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I never knew!

November 11, 2005

And here was me, thinking my friend Joi was a bloke… and all this time she was just leading me on and disguising her true nature: 8. Joi Ito of Technorati (http://joi.ito.com ) has her hands in a lot of Web 2.0 companies, some you might not even know about yet. This makes her damn [...]

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Podcasting Network survey

November 10, 2005

As you might know, I sometimes co-host The Movie Show on The Podcast Network. If you've never listened to it, my basic role in the show is to have the piss taken out of me by my darling friend Cam, and to giggle a lot. Yes, I too can see a bright future ahead of [...]

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In which I manage not to throw up on anyone's shoes

November 8, 2005

I was going to open this post with a direct quote from a website that gathers salacious gossip about the stars, but which says about Neil Gaiman nothing more than, and here I paraphrase, “However lovely you think Neil Gaiman is, he's actually lovelier”. Sadly, I can't find the link, so you'll have to take [...]

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The only time you'll see me in pink

November 5, 2005

The Financial Times ran a piece today called Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad Blog?. It was in their paper and everything. Those famous pink pages. And it quotes me. Wow. It's not every day you get to be in the Financial Times. I've even managed to impress myself on this one.

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The post mortem

October 2, 2005

OK, so Radio Five Live went fairly well I think. I've never done live radio before, so yes, I was nervous, but more because I wasn't sure what the procedure was rather than because I felt I wouldn't know what to say. (Let's face it, the number of times I've been lost for words can [...]

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Fuckwit marketers at it again

September 30, 2005

Every now and again I come across a piece of marketing which is just so clueless as to be astonishing. Usually it involves blogs and some idiot at an agency somewhere thinking that they can 'leverage' the 'power' of blogs to 'virally market' their wares and 'increase brand awareness'. Usually, I just take the piss. [...]

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