Everything in your past has succeeded in bringing you here today
You know, one of the things that occurred to me is that categorising content on this blog and then maintaining that categorisation is the wrong thing to do. Why? Because categorisation shows you the labels you apply to something you’ve … Read more …
So I decided to start 2015 with a new blog theme. A minimalist style, which is suiting me just nicely. I’m loving how it looks, and how it feels. It’s tidy. It relaxes me. Along with a new theme for … Read more …
Almost a month ago I wrote that I was suspending this blog while I experimented with writing exclusively on Facebook. Well, the suspension is over, and I’m back to write exclusively on my blog. Here’s a few things that I’ve learned … Read more …
You know me. I like to mix it up with different projects every now and again, to try new ways of doing things, and to see how they perform. My latest experiment is to temporarily shut down this blog and … Read more …
I’ve had a few people over the past few months tell me that I should write about dating and having relationships with Asian women, something that many white guys would probably be very interested in learning more about. I’m certainly … Read more …
There was a time when I would write every day, about things that were important to me or that I just wanted to share. I think I’ve taken a bit of a break with that! But it’s been on my … Read more …
As part of the importing of all the posts from my old blog, I spent some time today doing what’s called a ‘301 redirect’, which is a function enabled on the old site, that redirects all page requests to a new … Read more …
I started writing online back in 1998, and I’ve been writing ever since. Sometimes I’ve had a break for a few months, but it’s mostly been consistent. During the past 16 years I’ve written over 1,400 posts, which equates to about … Read more …
Are you a regular visitor? Do you keep coming back to see what I’m writing, maybe to see what’s happening with my life? Or maybe you’re just a new visitor, but you’re enjoying what you’ve been reading so far? I’d … Read more …
About a week ago I started moving a few of my websites – including this one – to a new website host here in Melbourne. I was moving away from my normal US host, because I’ve had a number of … Read more …
I started blogging back in late 1998, shortly after my birthday. Back then it was called ‘online journaling’, and ‘blogging’ didn’t come about until the early 2000’s. I remember thinking at the time that it was such a stupid name … Read more …
I found this awesome web-based app today called Hemingway. It allows you to write or edit an article (copy-pasted), and then it applies colours to the words, sentences or paragraphs. This helps you work out how to improve what you’re … Read more …
Some time ago I had some issues with Disqus as the commenting system. I ended up discovering it had nothing to do with Disqus, but with the background database, where there was a mismatch occurring between some comments and the … Read more …