Happy birthday to my blog and a Happy Christmas to you
It is that time of the year to remind everybody that I was clearly destined to be a journalist with a journalist attitude to deadlines, because my vow in the middle of 2002 that by Xmas 2002 I would have…
52 things some other guy learned this year is always worth reading
Horseback raves, a programming language called Tabloid, the alphabetic order of your surname depressing your academic grades, and the ability to buy genuine human teeth if you so wish, you will find all of these things in Tom Whitwell’s always…
Happy birthday to my blog and a Happy Christmas to you
My first ever blog post was on Christmas Eve in 2002 which means this website is now old enough to drink in the US. I used to write prolifically about my work, politics, the internet and pop culture etc, but…
Happy 20th anniversary to my blog – and a merry Xmas to you
Journalists are notorious for leaving deadlines to the very last moment, and that is how, having set myself the target in 2002 of “have your own Movable Type server up and running with your own blog by Christmas” I ended…
The strange comfort of being future isotypes
I went to see OMD last night and they played Isotype, which is one of my favourites of their post-reformation output. I’ve written about it before, because it was part of a #TimsTwitterListeningParty just after Dan Martin and Seb Patrick…
Bug Brain Check-Out?
I felt a real pang of sadness the other day when I went to a corner of the internet I’ve visited intermittently for two decades to find that it had disappeared. It has stirred up a complicated bundle of emotions….
Happy birthday to my blog and a Merry Xmas to you
It always makes me laugh that the very first post on the very first version of this website went up on 24 December 2002 because I’d set myself the deadline of “Setting up and running my own blog by Christmas”…
Do you remember the Trackbacks?
I like blogging again. There’s a slight concern that the way I’ve been able to balance working from home, looking after the kids, making loads of new music and re-start blogging and the newsletter suggests a brain in the hyper-fizzy…
A screenshot blast from the past
I was literally just scrabbling around looking for any old USB memory stick, and came across one which contained a screenshot of my old blog from a mere 12-and-a-half years ago. Yep, some long-time readers might just dimly remember when…
