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Today’s Photohunt theme is “shadow”.
This is my charcoal grey laptop called Shadow. My other laptop is called Sexy Beast, my iPhone is Pippin (geddit?) and my camera’s name is Niko. Is this weird¿ What do you call your gadgets, cars, etc?
15 Saturday Jan 2011
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Today’s Photohunt theme is “shadow”.
This is my charcoal grey laptop called Shadow. My other laptop is called Sexy Beast, my iPhone is Pippin (geddit?) and my camera’s name is Niko. Is this weird¿ What do you call your gadgets, cars, etc?
10 Monday Jan 2011

How many of you have had stalkers since becoming online “personalities”? I’ve had a few over the years, especially on h2g2, but I thought this was mostly behind me and hoped that any weirdos who felt like stalking me these days would at least do it privately so that I wouldn’t know they were there. But there is one that keeps showing up, over and over again. This is a person who unceremoniously dumped me as a friend by email several months back, saying they were fed up with me, then said “thanks for all the fish” and that was that. Or so I thought. But no, comments galore started showing up here, which at first I just deleted hoping this someone would take the hint, but later I was forced to mark them as spam so the unwanted comments went directly there. And then the other day they left a “comment” for me on my three words.me post, describing me unkindly, then yesterday another comment in my spam… seriously, wtf?
Does this person not have a life, do they not know how to move on? Especially as – they dumped me! And told me in no uncertain terms that I was no longer considered a friend. And well, this was and is totally fine by me. So why on earth would they keep stalking me and leaving comments here? I have found myself wondering of late “what would Raincoaster do?” but hope this person decides to do the decent thing and bugger off before I have to ask Rain for advice…
How do you deal with stalkers, trolls, flamers, etc?
04 Tuesday Jan 2011
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Have you ever had to describe yourself in three words? You know what a daunting challenge that can be. What about if you wanted someone else to describe you in three words? ThreeWords.me is a site that lets people do just that.
I suppose this could turn out horribly wrong or otherwise embarrassing, but so far it’s just a bit of fun. Seems everyone turns up as Anonymous, so you can leave a comment to identify yourself if you like. And link here to your own three words.me page!
19 Sunday Dec 2010
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A few months ago on Twitter I saw someone mention that they’s just reserved their URL with about.me and, curious, I went to check it out. And then I reserved two URLs – one for azahar and the other for SevillaTapas. And then I forgot all about it (much like when I first signed up for Twitter) until I started seeing that people were creating their new about.me pages. So yesterday I finally created my two custom “splash pages”, which also come with a personal analytics dashboard. Still not quite sure what to do with them, but I think they look quite cool and they tell people at a glance where to find me online.

26 Friday Nov 2010
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Final deadline for my SimonSeeks job (the first one was in October) was today, but I got an extension until Monday. So it’s going to be busy, busy, busy all weekend. Most of the writing is done, but there are still some photos missing and a bit of polishing and fact-finding needs to be done over the next three days. Have a look and let me know how you think I’m doing (not all the headings are showing yet)…