I used to sit around at home doing nothing all day. These days I like to be a little more productive – though only a little!
Here I’ll list my little projects as and when I come up with my hairbrained schemes… there’s a past example below and I’ll post more as and when!
- TWEETDAY – My attempt at a trending topic (based on the idea CALTE gave), every Wednesday… worked for a couple of weeks! (more on the Tweetday Minisite)
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Click for a larger view of the CALTE "flyer" distributed via. Twitter
CALTE (Chris Allen’s Live Twitter Experiment) – My FIRST attempt at creating a trending topic on twitter, based around a personal experiment on a train ride to London from Devon. Whilst admittedly a bit of an odd idea, around 20 people joined in at the peak of the experiment, most of whom I didn’t know beforehand, thus proving what I’d set out to see, how the internet links us all!
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Blogger, Web Designer, Geek. You get the idea.
Chris is passionate about technology and the internet, and also likes to try and be right about everything... which he isn't.
The hug might be cheap – but if it comes from heart, it's worth more than the most expensive gift you can think of!The question is not, what it cost, but what it is worth to you!
Don't get me wrong, I love the hug and it would mean more than any present could, I was more just thinking that maybe I should go for the cheap aproach too
a present should always come from your heart – and not show, how much was in your wallet!
It can only come from my heart, as my wallet is empty!
I speak the good English, no?
Ahhhhhhh……what translator do they use. At least it makes it easier to spot the fake UK sellers from the real ones. That’s something else you need to look out for.
I make a rule of not buying from a user with less than 75 98% positive feedback, and all recent feedback has to be positive. There’s some sharks out there on ebay, and I’ve been stung once by one a long time ago.
Matt
The "It's so so so tasty! Come and save me!" line directed at me seems extremely dodgy when you read it on it's own like that.
That's why I import them all to my website like this
Dude, I was in a curry hourse with a guy who works for TfL and was on the team that cancelled london buses back in Feb. Needless to say his boss who made that decision was gone and he swore that buses will not be completely cancelled again, as BoJo can’t aford it!
booo i had sooo many people in a+e today that had head injuries/ nec/ ankle/ wrist/ hip fractures, arranged about a million # clinic appts, are people idiots, its ICY!! avoid going out or you'll slip and injure yourselves!!
why do you write these pointless notes, we can all watch the weather
and have common sense
I find it interesting, I like reading stuff
Don't listen to Ash, he's grumpy. Bah humbug.
y were u still up 4 hrs ago?
Humbug ash (N)Thanks Kirsty
and Katja, I wasn't, but facebook only grabs things from my blog once or twice a day 
xxx
oh and ash – i don't "write" the notes, they come from my blog: http://www.epicblog.co.uk – facebook just chooses to import them, and im not entirely sure how to change that
personally theres isnt alot anyone can dofor a start:back in the olden days the council did there own gritting with there own workforce which they employed.the council now hires out the contract to whoever pays the most, which is why nothings been done about the gritting. but then its no different to the other years we have had snowpeople just arent used to it.and you cant really do my about the ice becuase if you try to clear it you just make things worsemy second reason is people are too lazy to do it themselves.i find all this weather a challenge im still going to work in it, and if you drive sensibly and dont rush you wont crash. simple
you didn't manage to get a lift tomorrow with Uncle Christopher and Jean then? Hope the journeying isn't too bad- and see you tomorrow! x
sadly no, they weren't able to help – but it shouldn't be too bad i hope! see you tomorrow!! xx
*assumes vlogging is video blogging*Please let it not be all about nursing…!
No deffinately not about nursing!
Not after the last time… *looks innocent*…At least I got away with a verbal warning and learnt my lesson!
Yeah what happened with that? I just heard rumours through my housemates, but never really learnt what it was about! And did you really 'learn your lesson'?
Well essentially I heavily dissed the uni and a certain lecturer in blog posts, which the uni weren't overly pleased about and then accused me of breaching a rule about bringing the name of the uni into disrepute (which i could apparently technically do by saying in person to somone "BNU isn't much good" – alas, I digress).So I had a disciplinary hearing in front of the dean, head of nursing school and a couple of senior people, then after a bit of a bollocking got a "verbal warning" and told that if i ever did it again there'd be hell to pay in the long run.And well to an extent, at the very least I learnt to shut up
yeah but theres no evidence is you just say it (looks around they have cameras everywhere) but written they can shoot you!
At the very least, that's a definite 'lol'. Not laughing at your expense, more at the fact that you're bringing the university into disrepute by giving your own opinions. I guess it's downhill from here, as we'll be encouraged to 'toe the line' and 'not speak out' when we think something is wrong!Perhaps you were right and had valid reasons for suggesting why the university migh be sub-standard iticular area? Did they not see thatpoint of view?
Hell no dont toe the line join the union then you can say what you like and have a team of lawyers to back you up in the case of the RCN lol
Well I can't go into too much detail, but essentially the uni weren't impressed that I used the internet to complain instead of doing it properly – so refuse to address any of the issues that i raised in it – even though i'd like to think i had a point.
Awww now i want to read what you wrote!!
I don't have copies anymore! Ed might have one though
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use google cache
it would appear that caches no longer exist for the posts, only for the category they were in and none of the content, damn
– maybe i have a copy somewhere…
ah probably because it used to have feeds directed to it!
ooh, i do have copies, if people want them give me your email addy, and i'll send them
(bear in mind i wrote these a long time ago, regret them and clearly don't hold these views anymore… 
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I remember reading them
oh, and im not proud of what i wrote back then.
well you've got a prospective 3 years ahead i would consider getting involved with the union though maybe as a rep or on the paper!
well when they next look for reps i'll be there
How old is it?
Two months old. Being sorted for free though.Dd
Yes Chris, excellent. I commented on it. Feel good. You wrote a fair amount of decent points. Now relax. People will comment on it eventually. Alright? Alright. x
Chris, I agree with you, especially as someone who had fought the stereotype of being named “Tracey”! Nice post, though heaven knows how you have the energy and mental capacity to write this stuff! x
I hear you man. Don’t change for anybody. One of my favourite quotes is by E.E. Cummings, it says, “To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle, which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.” Don’t become a mindless drone, shaped by society, media and others expectations. Keep on going as you are – you seem like a pretty neat guy to me