Chris Garrett’s Personal Blog

This is my second time writing this, bloody dodgy connection. I shouldn’t really complain, I am stealing the connection from some unsuspecting hotel guest. Chris’ top tip: the wifi point with the name “default” is usually a good bet as unsecured.
The hotel has got a funky power socket based network but the kit they gave [...]

My new digital camera and photography blog is up, please take a look. It’s called DSLRBlog.com and is a multiblog. This basically means me and a bunch of friends will blog on photography topics. We are all wannabe photographers so will be focussing on digital photography using SLR cameras and various lenses etc (hence “DSLR”).
Let [...]

Just been reading about Darrens bumper Amazon Associates Christmas. Ah that is a familiar experience this time of year, looking at affiliate accounts and seeing all time high figures. Christmas truly is the season for spending wads of cash!
Problem is, a couple of months ago all my sites got taken out. My web host was [...]

Just as we are about to jet off to sunny Calgary we start feeling the effects of the bug that has been making the rounds. We already had a couple of doses of this bugger, it must be mutating or there are several [...]

This tool is really taking shape, I look forward to everyone getting to use it.

This could well be very useful. I am trying out a super secret 007 blogging tool which even though is only a test version right now looks very neat!
So far so good :O)
  Obligatory Cat picture

You may have noticed I have been tweaking my template. I am reasonably pleased with it despite my meager design skillz.
One addition I am trying out is the little form in the top right (which is confusingly next to the search form, hmmm). This allows you to sign up and subscribe to my blog via [...]

Here is a few of my current favourite photographs found on Flickr. See if you can spot a theme ..

I have just been spending an enjoyable hour remotely visiting Calgary.
I started out earlier in the week seeking out the best flickr photographs I could find, found a few nice blogs (not nearly as many as I had hoped) and added some great folk to my contacts. Aren’t tags great? Also tried finding blogs [...]

Well I just found an old RSS feed for my blog and imported it. Wish I hadn’t, what a bloody waste of time that was, there are hardly any posts and what I have look like a dogs breakfast. Joy.