LJ Posting Test

Posted over at http://www.houlden.org/wp-blog/. *waves* at LJ, if it gets through.

Getting Started

So, this site now has WordPress installed. I have a few different blogs, on Live Journal, Blogger and WordPress.com, but I want to consolidate them on a site that I own. Surname.com or surname.org domains don’t come up very often so I grabbed mine before it got nicked by a cybersquatter company. I know personal… Continue reading Getting Started

Wibble

Still here, but mostly in read only mode. Did we all have a good Christmas then?

Life & stuff

So, how are we all doing? I know updates here have been pretty non-existent this year, but I’m pretty active elsewhere, and the longer you leave it, the harder it gets (fnarr). Probably safe to say the last 18 months or so haven’t been the easiest for me but I want to get things back… Continue reading Life & stuff

Not dead yet!

These days I spend so much more time on Facebook and Twitter that I know I haven’t updated here for months. I’ve been trying to write about the odious public sector “reforms” but I only get so far before I get bored and stop. If I did get into political blogging I wonder if Blogspot… Continue reading Not dead yet!

Past Present

People following my Facebook feed may have noticed that I did quite a big presentation for work this week. I work for a large and pretty well known telecoms company. Like most big corporates it does a lot of things and has quite a few programmes to stop staff getting too bored. One of these… Continue reading Past Present

Lookalikes #notw

With the News of the World hacking scandal getting even more interesting I noticed the similarities between this pair of rogues. One is a puppet who acts on the direct orders of a shadowy boss whose only interest is power, and the other is a character in a Harry Potter film.