Born Shouting

…shared between me, Horace and Sweet Junipers Dad…

Horace wrote, “Romae rus optas; absentem rusticus urbem tollis ad astra levis.” Roughly: in Rome you long for the countryside; in the country you sing to the stars of the distant city. I have always romanticized a country life…

Homestead

As a (very) amateur web publisher, I’m constantly struggling with time and my ability to provide both infrastructure (hosting, sites, templates…) & content, so it was a relief of sorts to read that I’m not the only one…

Content is an order of magnitude harder than technology with an order less upside; …. The main and perhaps only reason to do content should be the love of creating it.

http://venturebeat.com/2009/04/29/10-lessons-from-a-failed-startup/

That need to love the content that you write is an important one to me and chimes with the age old writers mantra of write about what you know about.

Dad and Tom (9 months) in the supermarket on a Friday night beer run, a stranger (middle aged man with his wife) comments in passing to Dad (with Tom starring from his perch in the shopping trolley):

I wish I had a mate like that.

One of the nicest things anyone has ever said to Dad.