Tag Archives: blogging

Quote of the day

By 6000 | 6000 | January 22, 2009

From the always-entertaining Brian Micklethwait on the dangers of writing blog entries in advance and then getting them to automatically post while you’re away on holiday: I’ve never really felt right with that.  What if an atom bomb goes off, and there I am still blogging about, basically, kittens?  (I know, the internet would not [...]

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“My most important reader is me”

By 6000 | 6000 | April 7, 2008

Why do we blog? It’s a question that many inferior bloggers attempt (and fail) to answer on an all too regular basis (along with an annoying tendency to use the word “musing” far too often). Brian Micklethwait* knows why he blogs: … every so often I have to remind you people that my most important reader [...]

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“The stress is crushing”

By 6000 | 6000 | January 9, 2008

It’s amazing what I put myself through for you guys. I think that if I wasn’t the model specimen of prime physical fitness which I obviously am, then I would surely be suffering some sort of health issue or other related to producing this literary Manna which you so enjoy optically devouring. I put it down to [...]

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What’s going on?

By 6000 | 6000 | December 10, 2007

It’s an excellent question. I haven’t got a clue. Basically, there were problems with Fasthosts – my hosting company – and they went a bit mental and scrambled everyone’s passwords before mailing them (in ye olde piece of paper in an envelope way) out. I got an email from their (and I kid you not) [...]

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