Tag: blogging

Try not to be amazed, confused and maybe a bit tearful, when you read my plans for 2014

24 January 2014

My first plan for 2014 is not to use upworthy-style headlines to drive people to my blog again, but since you're here, why not take a glance? Over the past few years, I've tried to make plans for the upcoming year. Read over some of my plans for the coming year from 2013, 2012, 2010, 2009 – all guaranteed to make me […]

How do you explain a blog post, as a medium, to someone who doesn't immediately understand what it is?

19 December 2012

I remember, when I was younger, my Grandfather telling me I should write something every day. "Ho ho", thought I, "Why would one ever want to do that?" Well come 2012, since I managed to seprate handwriting from writing, I do want to do that, but considering my Grandfather is, quite understandably (and sensibly) not […]

A Blog Post A Day: Looking Back

1 December 2012

31 days ago, I set out to write a blog post for every day in November. The low points: Posting various relatively poorly formatted, rushed or somewhat rambling posts that are probably below par. Rushing to midnight deadlines Desparately trying to push posts online at 11:50pm via GSM on a train! The high points: Completing various […]

I'm Tim and I suck at handwriting

11 November 2012

When people see my handwriting, they sometimes joke, "oh so that's why you work with computers" but reflecting on it, that probably does relate to it in some way. Throughout my school life, I sucked at handwriting. I mean really sucked. I was slow, it was scruffy, and generally larger than that of my peers. […]

Why do I bother writing this blog anyway? I mean who even reads it?

26 October 2012

As Clifford Stoll says in his very clever TED talk: "The first time you do something, it's science. The second time, it's engineering. The third time, it's just being a technician. I'm a scientist. Once I do something, I want to do something else." As I'm not an academic, I'm not a "scientist" per se, but I do share his desire to constantly do new things – […]

Here's a challenge…

28 January 2012

On the 1st of March, I will start my fifth year of blogging. It's had various incarnations over the years and I did have a website before that, but I thought this not-very-impressive birthday deserved a bit of a celebration. "Well Tim", you smugly point out, "shouldn't your Happy-Birthday-To-Me post be on the first of […]

Guess who's back!

5 September 2011

After, a year or more of sabbatical from "proper" blogging, I've decided it's high time to revamp my website and get blogging again! You can find content from my old blog here and it is searchable from here.