• 12:54 The grommet manufacturing industry congratulates Barack Obama on his inauguration today, which heralds a bright future for grommet retail #
• 20:31 GRRRR! My bloody gmail account has been hacked and sending everyone spam. #

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Apologies if you've had spam from my gmail address. Some maladaptive swamp-dwelling pissflap has hacked the account and sent spam to everyone I've ever mailed.

• 15:26 www.rentadateforcharity.com is looking for PHP help (for free, but will advertise you) - DM me for more info #

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• 10:12 Fans of #cycling might be interested in a new blog by an entertaining and erudite chum of mine: realcycling.blogspot.com #

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• 17:10 Retweeting from @tomd - share ideas for alternatives to Heathrow runway 3 at qurl.com/heathrow #

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• 09:20 WiFiFoFum! Woo hoo! #
• 19:06 @ Jazza_UK :) I've been trying it from the Oxford Tube (somewhat superfluously I guess). #

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• 15:45 Phew! Just finished a huge feature about the 1911 Census, which had to be written today - as it only launched today, right on press deadline #

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• 17:02 @ brighty do calm down dear #

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Get writing, flist: it turns out that Twitter posts are eligible for the Hugo sf awards...

Today is an important occasion for me: it’s 10 years since I went self-employed. I’m dead chuffed that somehow I’ve blundered through all these years, slightly anxious about the year ahead (two clients falling off, one affecting some readers of this as they’ll know, the other alas my most lucrative in terms of pay-per-work; though in happier news ( Read more... )