Category: Diary
General posts about my life and the things I am doing
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After the hack
For years Gareth ran a handful of quiet, low-traffic WordPress sites for friends and community groups. Then a worm got in, and by 2024 he’d lost control of all of them. Two years on, he finally sits down to clear the wreckage and start again, smaller and simpler this time.
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Habit forming
A new habit is slowly forming. This morning I packed my things for work and took my ipods with me too. Wearing them makes it much easier to hear what is being said when I listen to podcasts and other spoken material in the car. It’s quicker and cheaper than going through the ratty old…
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Aspects
I am beginning to feel more like a ‘writer’. Sitting down with my macbook to write the day’s words, or settling in at the computer at home feel more like something I do rather than something I want to do or think about doing. My use of the keyboard isn’t a lot better, but it…
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Hurdles
It’s barely been a week and, oh no, I just had an accident of horrific proportions. This is a disaster. You see I was just about to say that after just a few days 500 words in and of themselves just isn’t very intimidating anymore. And then I left my Chinese keyboard on, so when…
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Temptation
Goodness is it tempting to get into bed and do this tomorrow. Mind you, that’s a first thought and as we all know first thoughts are not always the best thoughts. My second thought was that writing consistently is important to me and there are plenty of things to say too. I made my first…
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Probably healthy
It is late, I need to get to bed and get to the very serious business of sleeping, and yet I have not written a few hundred words, or studied much Chinese today. These are important goals and somehow they slip away unless I hold on very tight to them. I found time to play…