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My name is Jonathan Beckett. I am a software and web developer, and quite possibly the biggest geek I know.

When not posting here, I can be found generating all manner of garbage across the interwebs.

I can usually be found at the following places online...

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May
26th
Mon
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Chocolate Cake for Tidying Up

I just dealt out the best form of punishment our younger children can grasp for not helping tidy up - the eldest won a chocolate cake for helping me.

The look on their face was priceless.

“Here’s your chocolate cake! - thankyou very much for tidying up.”

“Can we have some?”

“Nope.”

“Awww…. why not?”

“Because you didn’t help tidy up, at all, did you. And have you asked if you could play with your sister’s wand?”

“No…”

“You better give it back then…”

 These scenes play themselves out every day in our house. 

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Tiger by the Tail

I just walked past the lounge and caught one of our children pulling the cat backwards by his tail. Given that the cat is particularly adept at opening up human skin like a can opener, instant discipline was called for.

It’s quite interesting - asking a 4 year old why they were pulling the cat by it’s tail… all you get is a shrug as an answer. When you ask them what would have happened had the cat turned around and attacked them, you get another shrug.

All of our kids have scratches on their hands dealt out by the cat - and none of them have learned anything yet.

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Pirates of the Sea - the song that should have won the Eurovision Song Contest…
May
25th
Sun
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he would say that, wouldn’t he
— Mandy Rice Davies - at the trial of Stephen Ward
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Switching to Tumblr?

I have been pondering for the last few days about switching to Tumblr for my personal blog. I don’t write the huge posts I once did (I no longer have time to do so), and even if I do, it would seem that Tumblr is a far more suitable solution that Wordpress.

Perhaps I am wrong.

I’m not going to switch today, or tomorrow, but I may well do so soon.

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May
21st
Wed
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I’m surrounded by idiots
— Scar, The Lion King
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Playing with Tumblr

I’ve been playing with Tumblr this evening to evaluate it as a longer term blogging tool… it seems very simple - and yet perhaps simple is no bad thing.

 Allied with disqus, suddenly it’s a very viable blogging platform.

May
20th
Tue
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May
18th
Sun
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