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So I figure, now the initial “buzz” of twitter has calmed down a bit, I’d see what all this new shite was about.
I understand the “microblogging” idea. Basically, when your attention span drops to sub atomic levels as this day and age has come to cherish, and no-one can be bothered to write out an actual informative post on their blog. (or in my case complete drivel!)

I signed up yesterday having no idea wtf I was doing. When you begin, it does the friendly “enter your email address and passwords so I can steal all your contacts and spam the hell out of them” but at least gives a relatively obvious button to skip that step. Unfortunately, its probably not obvious enough for all the braindead web-kiddies destroying the net with their facebooks and myspaces.
The next step suggests people you might be interested in “following”. Which I don’t quite understand because I have no interest in following “Sockamillion – Jason Scott’s Cat”. Or for that matter, “10 Downing Street” (Yes #10 has a twitter profile…WTF?!)
It seems more like these profiles are most popular rather than picking people who you ACTUALLY might be interested in.

However, again, its a skippable step and you can get into searching for the people/organisations/etc you want. I found one or two people I know and also the twitter profiles of some celebs like Mr Stephen Fry, Kevin Smith and… Neil Gaiman!!

Its quite interesting following celebs as you get to see a more personal front of them rather than a media bastardisation of their persona.
Johnathan Woss tending to his sick wife, Neil looking after his son with a broken leg.

I’ve also added a “friend” called ‘playtwivia’ which a member of Neowin.net coded which pops up a trivia question every 3-4 hours and you earn points for answering correctly. Its quite smart, but the internet being what it is, every answer is googleable.

(I realised I have coined many new words on this blog post. Or at least words which aren’t technically true words. But hey, its my Blog!)

Twitter can also be used as a News Aggregator;  a sort of RSS feed mixed into it. So I get the lastest news posts from Neowin.net and also the latest lolcats from icanhascheezburger.com

All in all, its maybe something I’ll keep up with alongside this blog.  Sure i’m not going to ‘tweet’ things like, “I’m in work, its boring” or, “woke up, had breakfast, i’m tired” –At least not constantly. No-one is interested in that crap. I can develop it into something somewhat interesting such as my tweet:

Just made Haggis Neeps and Tatties for first time myself – all i can say is: http://tinyurl.com/arotcm

The tinyurl points to an excellent video on youtube. I suggest you play it with volume UP!

So, if you want to be depressed by my inane ramblings more, follow me on http://twitter.com/grantdickins

It seems lately that I keep getting these annoying messages coming up on messenger at home and even a couple of times on my work email; requesting (I use the term loosely) that I remove entries from this blog…

I mean, fair enough if these “requests” were worded nicely instead of threateningly, well…who knows. That

Waaaaah !

train has sailed. (Deliberate bastardisation)

What really pisses me off is that now, not only am I getting these pestering messages, but my family are now being harassed about it. That’s not really on. In fact, this sort of harassment could have legal action brought upon it.

Thing is, right, this is my blog. I can write whatever the hell i want and nothing can really be done about it.
I have stayed well within the constraints of free speech on the Internet. I have not defamed or spoken in a slanderous way about anyone. And for that matter, I haven’t named a single person who I didn’t obtain permission from.

So I regret to inform my dear, sweet, warm-hearted and oh-so-kind readers, that no post on this site will ever be removed. Nor will the backups of this site be deleted. Or the backups downloaded to my pc. Or the backups stored off-site.

Fact is… if you don’t wanna see it, look for the little X at the top right of the window and quit crying!
Its the Internet. If you don’t like it, don’t read it. Go here instead.

<Sentence deleted for irony>

“Would you like some cheese with that whine?” – Kal c. 2004-2009 (permission for name given)

So it’s been a while and alot of shit has happened.

But before I go on, I’d like to point something out.
According to the stats for my site, as a general summary on the dashboard of the admin side of things, the top searches which link to my site are:

• swollen bruised ankle bone

• impossible dick

• ankle ligaments bruised

Now, the ankle related searches I understand. I did have a decent post regarding the fucked up ankle i managed to recieve one evening.
But… “Impossible Dick” !? Fuck knows…

So back to the big small update:

Whats changed? Well one of the reasons i’ve not been able to update the site, apart from generally being bored of the net, was the fact I didn’t have internet for a while. This lack of pr0n was because I was moving house… (continue reading…)

[Edit] Originally a page made for one person, but he’s cried so much, I’m changing it to a mass targeted exhibition. [/edit]

Although it says daily, it really depends how much time I have at work.
And as these are created at work, I only have access to basic tools to create these. Hence why they look badly photoshopped… well, to be correct, Gimped!
I have a portable version of The Gimp (GNU Image Manipulation Program) which I’m not very accustomed to using. But there would be many questions asked if I had a portable copy of Photoshop that I put on USB Pen or the work PC’s…

So, enjoy…   Mockups!

Welcome to grantdickins.co.uk.

There is nothing here…

…But it will come soon as I don’t have internet at home atm.

In the mean time – Anti-boy-racer device