Chris Garrett’s Personal Blog

It doesn’t matter how many people tell me about Second Life, or who for that matter. I’m just not impressed.
Don’t get me wrong, the idea sounds great. I even think “virtual worlds” will succeed. More on that in a second. Here is why Second Life leaves me cold:

The experience sucks - slow, plodding, fiddly. And [...]

Aaron is running a WordPress Custom Fields Contest
The contest is simply: who can demonstrate the most effective use of custom fields on their WordPress blog.
I’m going to follow this with interest because while I am a big fan of the software, I never think of it as anything other than a straightforward blogging [...]

Many things in life seem complicated. I have a habit of complicating things even further. I’m sure you know someone like that, “over-thinkers”. Really when looked at objectively many challenges come down to one thing; facing your fears.
Here is an inspirational quote found on Makoviney.net
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience [...]

You can’t have missed the noise in the blogosphere lately about a prominent blogger feeling cheated out of a link. Boohoo, etc.
The thing is nobody deserves a link. Links are earned. And even when you do enough to earn a link, that doesn’t mean people will link you. On the one hand your great content [...]

Donald Crowdis, 93 year old Canadian blogger doesn’t want to “go” …
There are many reasons. For too long I have behaved as if I could postpone going indefinitely, and thus have so many things that I must do first. I don’t want my successors to find out how much I could have done that [...]

Tags have kind of become invisible to many of us. They are taken for granted. This article about Amazon though reminds me just how cool they really are.
What is Amazon going to do with all these tags? Well, to start with it already offers a search for product by tag, which is a nice feature [...]

Via: Don

We can’t afford it but we have booked another Canada trip anyway. It’s coming out of our “One Account” which is one of those bank accounts where all your finances are bundled together, so your savings if you have any is counted off your mortgage. Effectively we are overdrawn to the tune of our mortgage [...]

I was noisily reminded today that I promised blog critiques and didn’t deliver. Well stuff came up. Big gnarly stuff involving lots of hair pulling and sleepless nights and transatlantic phone calls to hosting support people who just want to get you off the phone and learned customer service from the Dogbert school. Anyways, they [...]

Of all the bloody languages …