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Recent Photos

Just had the chance to get some new photos up on my Flickr account. Here’s a view of the flooding we had in Llansantffraid earlier this month: This is St. Bridget’s church in the village (Llansantffraid means ‘Church of St. Bridget’), where Jnr Briggs performed spectacularly as Joseph in the crib service on Christmas Eve: … Keep reading

The Blog Train

Hugh McCleod: I am no longer interested in being a “professional blogger”, whatever that means. I like blogs, blogging and bloggers, but I think we’re in “post-revolution” times now. The train has already left the station. If you managed to get a seat on it, great. If not, it’s not that big a deal, either. … Keep reading

PfF/ScribeFire Review

I’ve been using Peformancing for FireFox, shortly to be rebranded as ScribeFire, for my last few posts on hyprtext, and my initial impressions are pretty good. It certainly fills the gap left when my switch to Ubuntu meant I could no longer use my beloved BlogJet. It works, as I am sure most people know, … Keep reading

Blogsmith Coming Soon?

It looks like there will soon be a new contender in the hosted blog platform sphere. Blogsmith, the engine which was designed to run Weblogs Inc, Jason Calacanis‘ early blog network which was subsequently bought up by AOL. WordPress seems to be the market leading platform at the moment, certainly among hardcore bloggers. It will … Keep reading