Theme and tunes

Felt the blog needed a face-lift. Trawled through the spectrum of free themes before settling on a staggered sky scraper look. Wish the font was a little bigger though, and there was more red, but I’m sure my CSS-minded friends will be able to help me out – or any of my readers (yes, that’s where you lot come in).

Borrowing an idea from colleague and good friend Drunkengamer whereby people share their choices for songs across social networks – circa, #dailysong (feel free to join the movement on Twitter with a tweet featuring #dailysong) Mumford & Son with Little Lion Man captures the mood of the evening. If, if, if only I had paid more attention in school.

Podge-cast

Spent the evening creating a podcast with two of the guys I work with at Thirteen1 magazine. Both are on Twitter: @drunkengamer and @d_gow Its actuallly drunkengamer’s weekly podcast in which he recap’s a full week’s worth of dailysong’s. You will find dailysong on Facebook and to join in the twitter revolution just include #dailysong in your tweet. What we lack in discipline – its hard to stay on topic – we make up for with fun.

On the subject of dailysong, this was a previous weeks effort. Its raw and hilarious (I’m bias, sure) – http://www.drunken-gamer.com/personal/a-week-in-dailysongs-podcast-episode-7/ – and even features Angus the cat.

Momentum

If I’m honest, I’ve lost the blogging momentum of late. And I made such a promising start with 3 blog posts in consecutive days and then… nothing. My output dried up like a well under the sweltering African heat. But that’s all behind me. I’m back now, and I vow to adhere to at least 1 post a day from this key stroke onward.

Work has slipped into another gear of late as we look to schedule content for the December issue of our web games publication, Thirteen1 The November issue looks gorgeous – credit to Dan, Gow, Paddy and our network of freelancers. You can follow our activities on Twitter.

Thirteen1 Editor Dan and I will be traveling to London over the next week or so put the magazine on the radar of the media buyers. The magazine is now genuinely competing with its competition in print both in terms of volume of pages but also circulation/readership. All we need to happen is for the media buyers to acknowledge this. But like any business, organic growth is the order of the day, especially in such an unstable climate.

Not sure if you have been following by Facebook status, but our cat (Angus) chewed through the cable of my laptop charger. Thankfully, he didn’t get an electronic shock. I discovered this several minutes before a crucial meeting with a client. Maplins came to the rescue and Angus reveled in his 15 minutes of social noteriety.

Where has this week gone? Business planning is the order of the day tomorrow so a good nights sleep is in order. No doubt there will be some post-work socialising in Ye Old Hart. TGI Friday? Actually, no. I could do with an extra working day..

And to finish on a high, myself and wonderful girlfriend, Cheryl recently celebrated our 2 years anniversary as boy/girlfriend. Although I was caught out, if I’m being honest.  “Happy 2 ears” was what I *thought* Cheryl whispered to me on the walk to work. Naturally this confused me. So ‘ears to a lifetime of happiness.

Batter Up!

So after a few previous false starts this is my first serious effort at full-time blogging. However its not got off to the best start since I am full of cold and laid up in bed. In short, not much to report other than I’ve rekindled my love for fruit (Vitimin C). The quality of my entries will improve, you have my word. In the first instance, I want to get everything integrated with widgets (even though I thought widgets where what made my Dad’s tinnies froth up – joking) through to my Facebook and Twitter page. Today will be spent reading up whilst laid-up in bed coughing and spluttering.

Please keep the faith as you will be rewarded. That is a money back guarantee. I would offer a time-back guarantee but that is out of my hands at present.

1, 2, 3 I hit publish and you should experience my first serious blog entry. OK, the content isn’t exactly serious. But you get the picture.

PS – The Batter Up! reference will make no sense. My home town is Great Grimsby, a once thriving fishing port on the East Cost of the UK. Read the Wikipedia link and you will discover the meaning of the name Grimsby. But if you can’t be bothered, Grim was a Danish fisherman that settled in the ancient town. I’m confident there are some better, sorry, funnier, sites featuring Grimsby. If you know of any, please share them with me. I will link it to Facebook and share with other Grimbarians.

Back to the Batter Up! reference.. OK, you will need to make your grey matter do a bit of thinking but you’ll get there. Fish, batter.. See. Knew you would get there in the end. One final musing, I’ve never been fishing in my life.