Personal

Sep 01 08

The start of a new month seems like an appropriate time to address a few issues that have been bubbling away under the surface for a little while. As anyone who works for themselves will already know, it’s all too easy for deadlines to slip, for email to become unmanageable and, inevitably, for mistakes […]

Every blog needs a post like this

May 28 08

Ashley MorganPersonalNo Comments

Today I have the pleasure of being called as a witness in an ongoing court case. To cut a long story short, a friend of mine is suing his previous employer for breach of contract.
I witnessed a conversation between my friend and his previous employer where the contract was clearly breached. Much as I would […]

Witness

May 10 08

Ashley MorganPersonal10 Comments

No, I haven’t decided to whisk the family away for weekend break to Italy. In fact, the reverse is more accurate. Italy, it would seem, has come to me.
In the last few days my traffic logs have shown a huge increase in the amount of visitors from Italy. Upstart Blogger has always […]

Hello Italy

Feb 27 08

Ashley MorganPersonal2 Comments

At approximately 1.00 am this morning Upstart Blogger HQ was hit by an earthquake which according the the news this morning measured 5.2 on the Richter scale.
Earthquakes of that size are so rare that my first thought was that we had a poltergeist zooming around the house. Either that or some sort of skydiving […]

Earthquake

Feb 22 08

Ashley MorganBlogging Personal8 Comments

Despite the blogosphere’s rocket like growth over the last few years I’m convinced that we are still at the beginning of it’s development. My reasoning for this is based on the amount of people that I know in the offline world who are bloggers.
I know five bloggers in the real world.
Five. And that […]

How many bloggers do you know in the offline world?

Feb 17 08

Ashley MorganPersonal2 Comments

As weeks go the last seven days have been terrible. Viruses have attacked our health and miscreants have attacked our website. Thankfully, eight days later, things are a lot calmer.
I’ve got a lot of email to catch up on and plenty of comments that need approving and replying to. If you’ve sent […]

That was the week that was

Feb 16 08

Ashley MorganPersonal4 Comments

The astonishing work of art you see above is a hand made fully functional computer keyboard, turned out by Richard Nagy and proudly displayed on his website Data Mancer. Each keyboard is custom made for it’s owner and every one is absolutely unique. The one in the photograph is called Von Slatt, others […]