Another blast from the VHS past: here's a clip from a 1992 episode of Kilroy, featuring me in my student union activist days, opining about graduate unemployment:
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Something a little different for Friday evening. I've been digitising some old VHS videos from Mum's house, and this is an extract from the school video shot by one of my teachers at school, back in my final year, 1989. Can you spot my 17-year old self?
Dollar Academy Civvies Day 1989 from Adam Tinworth on Vimeo.
I shudder to think how much the video camera must have cost, and how poor the quality is compared to a cheapo Flip today...
Dollar Academy Civvies Day 1989 from Adam Tinworth on Vimeo.
I shudder to think how much the video camera must have cost, and how poor the quality is compared to a cheapo Flip today...
So, snow has hit London and the city has ground to a halt. There's no easy way for me to get my car off the snowy hill it's parked on, and the chances of both the trains I need to get to Sutton being running are next to nothing. I'm working from home.
But the interesting thing I've noted over the last 18 hours or so is that I've got the vast majority of my news about the snow from Twitter. As Alan noted, it's much like having dozens of reporters all over London (and further afield) reporting in briefly on conditions. I've yet to feel the need to turn to any mainstream news sites for information - because everything I needed to know was pushed to me. It's really cool, but it does make you rather nervous about the future of our industry...
UPDATE: One of the Computer Weekly staff videos his commute and the Farmers Weekly team are compiling a gallery of snow pics.
Crawling across London at between 10mph and 15mph is less fun than you think. And that small skid in Deptford was quite hair-raising.
London, it's fair to say, is not equipped for snow...
For those of you who think that life as a digital journalism evangelist is all tech and no paper, here's my morning workspace from earlier today:
My first proper holiday in 14 months...
...and I manage to go away when it's so cold that even waterfalls are starting to freeze up.
I'm loving it.
I'm just back from an evening singing carols around the wards at St George's hospital in Tooting.
I've spent an awful lot of time in and around hospital wards this year, and much of that time hasn't been very happy. So it was really great to spend some time bringing a little bit of festive cheer into the hospital on Christmas Eve.
Have a very Merry Christmas everyone.
What I have learnt since Wednesday:
Being smug about not catching the various bugs that have been flying around your office and family is a good way of generating enough hubris that karma feels the need to take you outside for a good kicking.
And yes, I'm feeling a wee bit better, thanks. :-)
Being smug about not catching the various bugs that have been flying around your office and family is a good way of generating enough hubris that karma feels the need to take you outside for a good kicking.
And yes, I'm feeling a wee bit better, thanks. :-)
I've just spent a couple of hours singing carols round the wards of St George's Hospital.After spending some very unhappy times in hospitals this year, it's nice to bring a little happiness to some tonight.
Have a great Christmas all!
The one time I really struggle with blogging is when I've stopped doing it for a bit. A few weeks ago, I took a week off. And I ended up almost completely disconnecting from social media for that week. I used my computer to play games, but that was about it. I switched off from the web, from feeds, from Twitter, from the works.Obviously, I walked back into the office to face a vast, vast pile of work - the curse of being a one man team, with no-one to delegate to. And so it took me a few days to get on top of that, and start thinking about blogging again. And then I started struggling. I have this urge that, if I haven't posted for a while, I need to restart with something significant. That, of course, is nonsense. If you think about the idea of blog as conversation, if you haven't talked to somebody for a while, you don't put off meeting them for a drink, or giving them a call, just because you have nothing of huge significance to impart. No, just just give them a ring, say hello, and start discussing the first things that come into your minds.
And that's exactly what this is. The first thing in my mind. And hopefully it'll break my bloggers' blog...
