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• Guest Post - Deflate Gate

  Today we're featuring a guest post by Scotty Stackpole of goonyathoughts.com - thanks for the blog Scotty! -------------- Deflate Gate This year revenues for th... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2015 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• The 400th Post

  

  I wasn't sure what to blog about for this one. This is my 400th blog post published on thoggy.blogspot.com, which I started in August 2012, and I continue to... Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2015 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• The News Quiz

  

  BLOG HEALTH WARNING: This blog post contains satire aimed at the old fashioned "I wish to complain in the strongest possible terms" style complaint letter... Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2015 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Lunches at Conferences

  

  Photo courtesy of tpsdave via Pixabay - CC 0 Public Domain license Today I'm talking about conferences. And in particular, my favourite bit of conferences,... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2015 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• History is a Curious Thing

  

  Photo by RachelBostwick, licensed under CC0 Public Domain Let me start this post off with a health warning (in defense of myself) - I don't mind to be... Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2015 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Integral Pen Drives Are TOUGH

  

  I found a pen drive earlier. Thanks to Jeremy for the spam post on my blog yesterday, I particularly liked the Good Old Fashioned American Spam! In other news,... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2015 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• And Now a Message from Crow the SpamWow Guy

  

  Good Morning all you people out there in Bloggerville, this is Crow the SpamWow guy, and I am here to sell you something you don’t want, for a price that you... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2015 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Registrars

  (Warning: I slightly touch on some macabre things in this post.  If you don't like reading about mortality, perhaps it might be worth skipping today's post) We... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2015 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Now Then

  

  ! (If you're not familiar with the term, "now then" is a traditional Lincolnshire greeting - depending on the tone it can be friendly or quite aggressive) I've... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2015 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Do You Like Meat?

  So, I made a new video last week - let me ask you,do you still eat solid meat?!? No longer. Meet MEATYBANG!! Apart from managing the miss the top of my head... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2015 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Elections - 5 Things About Working in a Polling Station You Might Not Know

  

  Attribution: Alex Lee (originally posted to Flickr as Voting in Hackney) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons For... Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2015 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Mineral Water and Stuff

  

  Attribution: W.J.Pilsak at the German language Wikipedia [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0... Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2015 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Heroes of the Storm - First Impressions

  

  I've been fortunate enough to get hold of a beta key of the new Blizzard game, Heroes of the Storm. Blizzard calls it a "raucous team brawler". I don't really... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2015 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Don't Look With Your Mouth Open

  

  I was on an underground train the other day (go me), travelling from... King Cross to Pimlico I think, when I noticed a woman sat on the train struggling to rea... Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2015 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Recovering From A Shock

  

  Pardon me, but I'm recovering from a shock. Today I was in London for a meeting, to this end I had to take the train to get there (I could have walked, but... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2015 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Hull Internet Creatives

  

  Tonight was the inaugural meetup of Hull Internet Creatives! Aka three of us in a pub. I got beer. It was very nice (and not just because of being able to... Read more

  Posted on 21 April 2015 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Secure Catering

  

  I was at a conference a little while back. For those that may not have experienced the delight that is a conference, a typical conference is at a decent sized... Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2015 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Wanting to Travel

  

  I've recently watched Dara and Ed's Great Big Adventure, a three part TV show where two comedians, Dara O'Briain and Ed Byrne, drive along the Pan-American... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2015 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• It's All About the Plumber and the 2600

  Mike Raven did such a wonderful job dragging my blog kicking and screaming into the 21st century that I have decided to pay back the favor by dragging his blog... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2015 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Personal Qualities

  I got thinking about this after watching this video about coolness by Ant - it's interesting how different things are cool, depending on the person and the... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2015 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION