Culling 1

Posted: Tue 19 October, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: D4D™, Domestic | 1 Comment »

The observant readers of D4D™ may have noticed a bit of a cull in the blogrolls over there ?

Basically, I went through and got rid of a load of blogs that either no longer exist, or that I no longer read. It was a bit of a Night of the Long Knives, but it’s cleaned things up quite a lot.

The thing is, a number of the blogs I no longer go to via D4D™ anyway – I use the Google Reader RSS Feeder, and get everything there. There are some who I go to direct as well, but the majority are primarily via RSS now.

Missed Dates

Posted: Mon 11 October, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: D4D™, Domestic, Geeky | Leave a comment »

In having lots of other stuff on my mind last week and over the weekend, I missed out on some date fun.

I missed yesterday’s 10:10:10 on 10/10/10 .

I meant to do a post, but other stuff came up instead.

Bum.

D4D is Eight

Posted: Mon 9 August, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: D4D™ | 2 Comments »

Somehow, D4D has managed now to be being written for eight years.

I am simultaneously pleased that it’s gone on so long, and gobsmacked that it’s gone on so long.

So, So Tired

Posted: Thu 5 August, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: D4D™, Domestic | 1 Comment »

I don’t know why, but this week I am just so tired.

Some of it is down to the usual suspects – bad sleep, disturbed sleep, poxy animals, the usual.

Anyway, today is where I’ve hit the limit. Hence, very little in the way of updates etc. A head full of rubbish and fluff.

See you later.

Upgraded

Posted: Fri 18 June, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: D4D™, WordPress | Leave a comment »

D4D™ is now running on WordPress 3.0.

The upgrade process was remarkably simple – a couple of mouse clicks once I’d backed everything up – and job done.

Consider me impressed.

Blog/Tweet Meet

Posted: Sat 12 June, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: D4D™, People, Sociable, Travel | Leave a comment »

While I was down in London this time, I organised to meet up with some long-standing friends, most of whom I hadn’t seen in far too long.

I’ve known Lori and Topper since before the first Mancunian Blogmeet (October 2003, fact fiends) , known Pix since I met her at Karen and Pete’s place in Wokingham in around 2004 (I’ve looked back in the archives and can’t find that one mentioned at all – how strange) and Sevitz since Mancuian Blogmeet 2 or 3, I think.

Since then we’ve all met on occasion – and I was able to meet Lori and Sevitz last time I was in London too – but it’s always good to do so again. We do all get on really well, and we really should meet up much more often I think – the time always seems to fly past (and so does the beer) while we all gas and put the world to rights (again).

As Lori says in her own post on it, it’s also interesting to see the way the technology has changed for organising these things. Where it used to be all done via blog and comments, this time it was initially done by email, with final decisions done by email, Twitter and texts on mobile phones/smartphones.

Anyway, it was (again) a really great evening with a dollop of beer consumed as well as some gin and wine (on the part of Lori and Pix) as well as meeting Carl, Pix’s fiancée, which was a joy too.

Hopefully we’ll organise another one within the year!

iPhone + D4D

Posted: Wed 9 June, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: D4D™, Geeky, iPhone, Photography, Thoughts | 2 Comments »

Since getting the iPhone a couple of months back, one development has surprised me more than any other. And that’s been the difference in how I use the phone and how D4D™ has changed since I got it.

Despite it’s comparatively crappy camera (bearing in mind that the previous phone had an 8Mp camera compared to this one’s 3Mp-ish) I’m using the camera part of the phone far more than on any other mobile I’ve had, and that has really surprised me. Some of it is, I suppose, the ease of taking photos off it – I primarily just email them to myself, and it’s a painless process, as opposed to that on the previous Sony-Ericsson phones. I don’t really know what the rest of the reasoning is, but whatever it is, it looks like D4D™ is becoming more photographic in nature.

That’s no bad thing of course. It’s just surprising (to me, anyway) that I’ve gone from pretty much all-written to having a noticeable portion of the posts having photos in them.  Strange the way things work out, isn’t it?  I don’t plan for D4D to turn into a full-on photoblog – I’ve got other plans on that score, thanks – but it’s just another change in the evolution of D4D™, I think.

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