If photography’s to be a creative outlet and perhaps make money, what do I need to do? I suppose there’s the aspect of understanding that creativity and money making don’t always go hand in hand – often the money-making turns the creative activity instead into an assembly line. Consider the ides of making stock photos…
Facebook is not necessarily a force for good. I intend that this site have no FB tagging, cookies, web bugs or anything of the sort. FB should not know you’re here. The same goes for Google, and all the other companies that use and sell your data. My aim is to ween myself off FB,…
Hmm…. last week had a few entries taken from the spike. Is that the phrase? A pre-prepared story, wheeled out to fill a gap? Why? Because I was watching films – Battle Royale, and some Star Wars. This week? Well, here’s a Monday Meta post, but will I create content (what a phrase!), or continue…
This was while I was in my third year at university, some time in the first term. I was then (as now) not much for being with people. Not through lack of desire, but through lack of social ability and confidence. Actually, that’s a bit like now as well. I’d been asked round to dinner…
This is a very lazy post, it’s a cut and paste of one I made three years ago. Why am I saying/doing this? Because it shows how I felt *then*. Here goes: I am an enormous fan of the NHS. Why? A few examples of how I’ve personally benefited from the NHS: Both parents…
Here’s a small test of will. Yesterday I had a day off blog writing, instead I watched a film on the way to and from work and posted something I’d prepared before. Great film, by the way – and that’s the problem. I’d *like* to continue watching Battle Royale, and indeed the first thing I…
Someone I know had a minor rant about a vehicle owner leaving a used nappy on the ground in the car park. No, that’s not the crime. That’s part of the *irony*, as the vehicle was used for waste collection/recycling. The crime is that he then noted the number plate and checked the tax/MoT status,…
I’d been off work for a while. Actually, I’d not really had a proper job since leaving university, and while I was sort-of content to freeload at home, I also knew I needed to get on with getting a job. I was at a “Get Some Work” type of set of workshops set up by…
I’ve not drunk alcohol in over seven years now. I’ve a long and not entirely brilliant relationship with alcohol, but I’m incredibly glad I broke it off before it became actively harmful. I still have mild pangs, wishes to taste a really good hoppy beer, or a rich red wine, but no, it’s not something…
I remember my first analysis session, although I didn’t know what it was at the time. I was in the final year of middle school (so about ten?), and I was asked to take my desk drawer to a room near the school office. I think assumed I was in some sort of trouble, as…