Out of the Gaming Wilderness

It’s got to have been at least three months since I was able to play on my Xbox. I’d had a few solid days playing Star Wars: TFU before the dreaded red ring of death struck and put an end to my Xbox related fun.
Since I managed to get my hands on an iPhone, I’ve [...]

The Book(s)

For the past few years I’ve had a ideas floating around for a book, or more precisely, a series of them. Before NaNoWriMo started in November, I had planned to write at least one of those books and even got as far as planning everything but as the days towards deadline whittle down to zero, [...]

New Year Resolutions

This year has been one of extremes. From the pure joy of seeing Sophie born to the pain of losing my Dad in the space of a few weeks and before that the amazing time I spent in France with Michelle and her parents. It’s taught me how quickly emotions can dramatically change in the [...]

Lack of updates

I’m kind of failing at the regular postings right now, so I thought I’d throw one out there for you.
Hoping to get something sorted in terms of furthering my career soon, which will be good going forward.
It’s just a case of getting my head down and taking opportunities when they come my way. I owe [...]

A rainy Sunday in Birmingham

We’re off to the German market in Birmingham today. It’s going to be the second year that Aimee has been and I’m hoping this year she’ll enjoy it even more than last time.
She’s turning into her own person more and more every day, so it’ll be good to see how far she’s actually come in [...]

I found where TalkTalk hid their Customer Service

After my slight rant about TalkTalk a couple of days ago, I decided to take the advice of a long suffering customer who has just started using their forum to see if it really was possible for a company to redeem themselves.
Interested in uncapping my speed up to 24mbps for £4 a month, I decided [...]

Four days of family

At 15:00 today, I finished work until 14:00 next Monday. That’s four whole days (and a bit) of me, Michelle, Sophie-Rose and Aimee.

What's happened to customer service?

Free broadband. Sounds good, doesn’t it? After a series of bad experiences with broadband over the past few years, I decided to go with TalkTalk. It meant leaving BT, perhaps the worst customer service I’ve ever experienced and just having to pay for the line rental and the calls we make.

NaNoWriMo = FAIL

I had a feeling I would have to succumb to the fact that I simply don’t have enough time to contribute to NaNoWriMo this year. The fact that Sophie-Rose was born just as I was gearing up for it has put me far too behind to catch up.
I’ve made a start, at least, and intend [...]

A Revisit to Podcasting

I’ve been podcasting since 2005, whatever people say. It started as an experiment and moved on to semi-big things when I joined up with PodShow and started to promote PodFest in 2006 and, although I enjoyed it, there was always something missing especially considering how much time I was putting in to editing, publishing and promoting the shows.