Bring Back Bob Willerton! You might have noticed on Twitter and Facebook my mentions about Bob, a much-loved College lecturer from my old workplace, Barnsley College, being given the boot, a boot he did not really deserve.
Read more about it (and sign the petition please) at JusticeForBob
He has now embraced the intertubes and put this little YouTube together, and as well as an update on news, he gives his top tips for avoiding the shaft. If you are at risk of vindictive and political management, might do you well to take heed.
I am just putting the finishing touches to Whites Recycling and Waste Management Solutions website and it makes me realize I have probably past an interesting (in a very geeky way) milestone.
Out of all the platforms and technologies I have ever used, I have probably created more websites using WordPress now. Anyone who uses WordPress is probably not surprised, but it is still quite a shock to me, when you consider a large part of my career was built around Microsoft technologies and until recently I was a Microsoft MVP for ASP/ASP.NET.
Another shocker is the fact only a few years ago a site with these capabilities would have cost tens of thousands of pounds.
If you were wondering about my absence lately, well wonder no more.
I was off with the family camping.
Or, rather, being flooded out of a tent.
The smell of stagnant water is still clinging to my nostrils, half the gear is still damp or muddy, and the experience of wet dog arse in my face at 5:30am will stick with me forever.
So the other day I asked for suggestions for my birthday, both here and on twitter. As always you didn’t let me down and I got lots of ideas.
I don’t know what the day will hold yet, but I did roll up some of the recommendations into the post you see over at my proper blog. You didn’t think this was my proper blog did you? Nah, this is just some silliness, a brain-fluff delivery system ;)
So thanks for all the ideas, and I will keep you posted how the day actually turns out :)
It’s my birthday next tuesday and my family is getting increasingly impatient with me for present ideas.
What do you get the man who has everything?
As my friend Damian would say “a box to put it all in”. Unfortunately while mildly amusing it doesn’t help.
I really am stuck for ideas.
We thought we had a solution, I would get vouchers to finish off my snowboarding lessons, but Clare and Amy want to do skiing instead and Damian is watching his finances. I’m not sure I want to do it alone.
Camera stuff and gadgets would be an idea but I really can’t think of anything I need, other than a backdrop to do some video blogging stuff and a shoot-through brolly or two (David the reluctant photography guru now recommends them rather than the reflective type I have). They are more work stuff than birthday though, right?
I love theme park rides (proper ones, not those that pop up during the night and leave as quickly), but according to The Sun
Any parent seen tapping on a PDA will have it confiscated by special wardens at Alton Towers.
This seems as good a reason as any to save my money and keep my portable computing device safe. WTF are they thinking? What if you are not there with kids but still a parent, do you get your gadget stolen then? If one parent receives an urgent message while the other parent is observing do they snatch it or leave you be? Is there any right of appeal?
I am hoping Sun journalists have got this wrong, wouldn’t be the first time.
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