Welcome to loonyblurb.net
Welcome to my new blogsite, loonyblurb.net, owned by me, loonytoons! This is the new home for all my random thoughts, ravings, rantings, ponderings and general cerebral wonderings so hopefully over...
View ArticleHappy 50th Birthday Mini
Well today is the 50th birthday of that wonderful old car, the mini! I just mention it here as I believe it should be celebrated, and it also gives me the chance to reminisce about my own first car, my...
View Article101 things in 1001 days
My 101 Things in 1001 days list: Start day – 01/06/2009 End day – 27/02/2012 – so clearly failed on most of these but I’ll try again with a new list Personal Improvement Read War and Peace Read Don...
View ArticleBlog Action Day – Climate Change
So today is blog action day, and this year the big drive is to get everyone talking about climate change. Now this is quite a big topic and one that I feel quite strongly about, among many other...
View ArticleIntermittent Posting
I’ve been feeling bad about not posting for a while, but I’ve just realised how long it’s been! All I can say is that it’s testament to how busy I’ve been recently. I take quite a bit of time tweaking...
View ArticleAda Lovelace Day 2010
So today is Ada Lovelace Day, a day organised to highlight the wide-ranging contributions and achievements of women in science and technology. Ada Lovelace While in general I try to stay away from the...
View ArticleRendili Web Writing Tips
As my blog has been relatively quiet recently, I thought I’d take this opportunity to let you know that an article I’ve written about how to write for the web has just been published on my company’s...
View ArticleStageFright – resources on public speaking
Background I’ve been to quite a few technical conferences now and at pretty much each event I got involved in discussions about public speaking and presentation techniques. This is partly because I’m...
View ArticleMy Tech Story
I was recently approached by a friend of mine about writing an article describing my career in tech for a new campaign that she was putting together, My Tech Story for The Tech Partnership. This is a...
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