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Category: Personal

All the news that’s fit to print

1st July 2005

With all this talk of logos, I’ve neglected to keep you informed of anything else. So, by way of apology, here’s a news bulletin featuring Steve Sharpe, Oasis, Black Convoy, Project Facade, Simplified Standards and 35,000 Mancunians.

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7 and a half questions for me!

23rd April 2005

In the latest of John Oxton‘s pub conversations that you can eavesdrop, the big man has decided to ask me seven and a half questions.

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Toys R Not What They Were

21st April 2005

I went to my Mam’s house the other day, and ended up in the attic trying to find some old tat she needed. In a corner of the roof I rediscovered, packaged carefully under dust sheets, all my old toys. Lots of Matchbox cars, a Big Trak, stupid cuddly toys and (yawn) board games.

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If I could scrunch up my screen…

26th February 2005

I need your advice again, dearest readers. I’m currently mid-way through writing my chapter for a forthcoming book about blogging. It’s the first time I’ve put together anything so lengthy to a definite publisher’s deadline, and it’s my first real attempt at combining XHTML, CSS, PHP, images and plain English in print. What’s more, I’m actually trying to make it interesting, light-hearted, and dare I say, funny.

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In my hallway, far, far away…

21st January 2005

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Colly’s end-of-year review

31st December 2004

Yes, it’s yet another end-of-year overview. Well, a selfish list. So, let me take a stroll through the year that was and try and make some sense of it from a work, play and culture viewpoint.

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A very Scottish christmas

23rd December 2004

Time to put the blog to sleep for the festive period. In a break from the usual sitting at home with the parents, watching endless soaps on TV and sweltering from a wave of central heating, Emma and I are spending Christmas in Scotland. We’ve bagged a beautiful cottage for a few days in Glensheil, just a few miles from the Isle of Skye.

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I’m still alive, just busy coding

12th November 2004

After the three day turnaround of version 1, we’ll be unveiling version 2 of our Libertines build in the next few days, full of new features, no frames, valid code, accessible forms and all hopefully before the band splits up.

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Suicide artwork was not interactive!

7th October 2004

Busy couple of weeks? Well, yeah. Not sure where to start really. There’s been controversy, hedonism, speculation, derision, joy, fatigue - the usual. I’ll share a little of this with you. Let’s start with our efforts to encourage suicide amongst emotionally fragile people.

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Gannin’ doon tah Cambridge, Pet

13th September 2004

Forgive the Northeast colloquialisms, but it was a most interesting weekend. Spent two days with some Geordies (people from Newcastle), Maccams (people from Sunderland) and - erm, people from Cambridge (don’t know what they’re called) in the grounds of Downing College. Considering the bitterly fierce rivalry between the Maccams and Geordies, everyone got on incredibly well.

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