Old Favourites and Frequent Topics
This blog doesn't have a specific topic, I write about whatever comes to mind and what I feel like writing about. Nevertheless there are some frequent topics and a few entries I particularly like. To make it easier to find them I've collated them on this page, grouped by topic (in order of appearance):
- Living, voting and blogging abroad
- The TV Licensing Saga
- Islay, Jura, Gigha and Colonsay
- Swindon and Wiltshire
- Scots
- Charles Rennie Mackintosh
- Webwriting, hotlinking and all that
- Old Favourites
Living, voting and blogging abroad
My passport and birth certificate are German, but I live and work in England. And blog from England in English. Not to forget maintain the Blogging Abroad/ Expat Bloggers page
- 04/Jan/2005: Immigration Tests
- 10/Dec/2005: Ten German Bombers?
- 02/Nov/2005: How The Hell Did I Get Here?
- 12/Sep/2005: Wahlen in Deutschland
- 02/Aug/2005: Where Is Home?
- 07/Jul/2005: Bombenanschlaege/ Bomb Attacks
- 04/Jul/2004: Auftakt zur Sprachen-Woche/ Kick-off for Language week
- 26/Apr/2005: General Election Fun
- 12/Apr/2005: Blogging and Voting Abroad
- 08/Apr/2005: Voting Abroad
- 26/Mar/2005: Expat Bloggers Update (One of many, but this also has other links)
- 12/Mar/2005: Tax and The Economy
- 11/Mar/2005: Rent A German
- 24/Feb/2005: General Knowledge
- 13/Feb/2005: 10 Years
- 01/Feb/2005: German Bashing
- 13/Nov/2004: A correction from mother
- 07/Sep/2004: Feature in the Evening Advertiser
- 04/Sep/2004: 15 Minutes of Fame?
- 26/Jun/2004: Expat or Emigrant?
- 15/Jul/2004: Kind of a Euro rant
- 10/Jun/2004: Voting in Europe
- 18/Feb/2004: Why I like Europe
- 28/Nov/2003: What took you so long? (banking in the UK)
- 11/Nov/2003: Autumn blogging (about German politics and ID cards in the UK)
- 30/Oct/2003: Blogging in English Pt 2
- 25/Oct/2003: Blogging in English
- 09/Oct/2003: What is it with those politicians?
- 03/Sep/2003: German Bloggers
- 01/Jun/2003: The European Debate
The TV Licensing Saga
I don't have a television. Haven't had one since early 1998. That doesn't stop TV Licensing sending me threatening letters though. Follow the whole sorry saga here (in old blog tradition the latest entry on top):
- 17/Jun/2006: Still Waiting For TV Licensing
- 05/Jun/2006: TV Licensing - The End of the Saga?
- 16/May/2006: How Soon Is Now - For TV Licensing?
- 16/Mar/2006: TV Licensing Statistics
- 21/Feb/2006: Others About TV Licensing
- 15/Feb/2006: Warning Against Unlawful Action
- 18/Jan/2006: Happy New Year, Mr Hales!
- 22/Dec/2005: Merry Christmas, Mr Hales!
- 20/Nov/2005: Urgent Reminder
- 18/Oct/2005: I'm In Trouble (May Be)
- 17/Oct/2005: Linkblogging (5th paragraph)
- 06/Jul/2005: TV-Licensing Update
- 11/Jun/2005: TV Licensing Update
- 29/Mar/2005: TV Licensing is Back
- 19/Jan/2005: Worried About TV Licensing
- 11/Dec/2004: Enforcers = Paper Tigers?
- 14/Nov/2004: OFFICIAL WARNING
- 23/Oct/2004: Turning up the heat?
- 16/Sep/2004: TV Licensing Jubilee
- 02/Mar/2004: TV Licensing wasting money
- 04/Nov/2003: Domestic update (second part of the entry)
Islay, Jura, Gigha and Colonsay
Regular holiday destination. And blog topic. In particular Islay but also its nearest neighbours.
- 11/Jun/2006: IslayBlog Goes Live (Shameless Plug)
- 22-23/Apr/2006: Back From Islay
- 12/Apr/2006: Gone Walking
- 27/Feb/2006: Bruichladdich 92%
- 01/Feb/2006: WalkIslay 2006 Programme Confirmed
- 21/Jan/2006: A Few Islay and Jura Links
- 12/Nov/2005: Kilchoman Distilling
- 09/Nov/2005: Loch Indaal
- 01/Sep/2005: More on the Dream House
- 01/Sep/2005: Gadgetguy Visits Islay
- 27/Jun/2005: Islay Blogging
- 26/Jun/2005: WalkIslay 2005 Travelogue Complete
- 16/Jun/2005: Granny's Rock (and other updates)
- 12/Jun/2005: Islay Updates and News
- 04/Jun/2005: Islay (and Jura) News
- 15/May/2005: Beinn Bheigier Panorama
- 24/Apr/2005: Birthday Party
- 10/Apr/2005: Preparing for WalkIslay
- 05/Apr/2005: Good News From Colonsay
- 02/Apr/2005: Islay from Space (again)
- 17/Feb/2005: Mountain Porn and Blogging
- 09/Feb2005: Islay and Jura Links
- 25/Jan/2005: Walk Islay Update
- 29/Nov/2004: Islay From Space
- 21/Nov/2004: Colonsay
- 30/Oct/2004: Walking on Islay
- 16/Oct/2004: Dream House
- 03/Aug/2004: Wave energy (again)
- 26/Jul/2004: I'm back (from another visit to Islay and Colonsay)
- 10/Jun/2004: Wallaby on Islay
- 22/May/2004: WalkIslay Travelogue Complete
- 26/Apr/2004: Back in Swindon (but still an entry about Islay)
- 22/Apr/2004: Islay update
- 16/Mar/2004: "Paid for their own island
- 06/Mar/2004: Port Askaig
- 06/Mar/2004: New Distillery on Islay?
- 29/Feb/2004: Port Charlotte
- 23/Feb/2004: Pigs will fly
- 09/Feb/2004: Renewable energy on Islay
- 08/Feb/2004: Swimming in Whisky
- 17/Jan/2004: Bowmore
- 30/Nov/2003: Walk Islay
- 29/Sep/2003: Whisky of Mass Destruction?
- 03/Sep/2003: Trinkt mehr Whisky!
- 03/Aug/2003: Holiday pictures 3
- 31/Jul/2003: Holiday pictures 2
- 28/Jul/2003: Holiday pictures
- 21/Jun/2003: Whisky new and old
- 13/May/2003: Walk Islay
- 11/May/2003: Dunes and beaches
- 26/April/2003: "QuickTime VR panoramas from the Isle of Islay
- 26/April/2003: "Please let it rain!
- 07/April/2003: No mail in the dark or if the tide is too high
Swindon and Wiltshire
Swindon is where I live. Mainly because my job is here. So I sometimes blog about it.
- 22/Mar/2006: Bygone Swindon
- 26/Feb/2006: Sunday Canal and Pub Walk
- 11/Feb/2006: Saturday Walk
- 29/Jan/2006: Sunday Walk
- 14/Jul/2005: Badger, Badger, Badger
- 11/Jun/2005: Magic Roundabout Video
- 30/May/2005: Walk and Gardens
- 07/May/2005: Kite Festival
- 01/May/2005: Bank Holiday Sunday Walk
- 20/Mar/2005: Spring Walk
- 19/Feb/2005: Liddington Castle
- 11/Dec/2004: Christmas Lights
- 03/Oct/2004: Rainy Sunday Walk
- 27/Sep/2004: Sunday Walk
- 20/Sep/2004: Sunday Walk on Tan Hill Way
- 13/Sep/2004: Sunday Walk
- 06/Sep/2004: Caen Hill Locks
- 03/Sep/2004: Where I live
- 07/Aug/2004: Fox Picture
- 08/Mar/2004: Curly Whirly Footbridge
- 11/Feb/2004: Local pictures
- 30/Jan/2004: Memories of Snow
- 28/Jan/2004: Snow in Swindon
- 19/Dec/2003: Worst again (Swindon Council and council tax)
- 26/Oct/2003: Pictures from Westonbirt
- 07/Oct/2003: Magic Roundabout
- 23/Sep/2003: Roundabouts...
- 31/Aug/2003: Three in a Day
- 23/Aug/2003: 8 miles and 4 hours later
- 17/Aug/2003: Walking Wiltshire
- 14/April/2003: Germany discovers the Magic Roundabout?
- 29/January/2003: Swindon Arts Centre reopened
- 19/January/2003: Some local links
- 14/January/2003: Mediumtown
Scots
No, not the people, the language. And my feeble attempts to learn it.
- 25/Jan/2005: Burns Nicht
- 11/Sep/2004: More Scots reading
- 02/Sep/2004: Blogging in Scots
- 01/Sep/2004: Auf Deutsch (a warning of what was to come)
- 03/Feb/2004: Blogging in Scots?
- 03/Jul/2003: Ein Schotte bloggt auf Deutsch
- 11/March/2003: Just in case...
- 10/March/2003: Blether...
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
I have written a few pages about Charles Rennie Mackintosh, so it's no surprise that I also sometimes blog about him.
- 15/Jan/2005: Another Dream House
- 27/Jul/2004: Some Mackintosh news
- 28/Jun/2004: Unbuilt Mackintosh (update on the earlier entry)
- 19/Jun/2004: Charles Rennie Mackintosh
- 29/Nov/2003: 78 Derngate
- 01/Jul/2003: The Glasgow Four
- 21/Jun/2003: Unbuilt Mackintosh
Webwriting, hotlinking and all that
Writing webpages, what motivates me doing it, what's annoying about it and anything else related to this topic.
- 24/May/2006: IslayBlog.com Goes Beta
- 24/Oct/2005: Now With Dual Display
- 08/Oct/2005: Spam Deluge
- 23/Sep/2005: Spam Attack
- 27/Aug/2005: Top 5
- 21/Jun/2005: Why Hotlinking Is Bad
- 07/May/2005: Defeated by Spam
- 17/Nov/2004: How Spammers Kill Motivation
- 16/Jul/2003: Respecting other people's work
Old Favourites
A few entries I particularly like or think are significant, but didn't fit under any of the groups above.
- 09/Apr/2006: Google Earth is Dangerous!
- 02/Apr/2006: Corporate Bloggers - Authority vs Credibility
- 02/Apr/2006: Whiter Than White
- 02/Jan/2006: Blogging About Intel
- 16/Nov/2005: Bremer Kaffeehausorchester Plays Dudley
- 16/Sep/2005: My Schultüte
- 28/Mar/2004: "64 things to do... (...in Scotland before you die)
- 21/Mar/2004: Fashion Victims
- 09/May/2003: No more speeding abroad
- 27/February/2003: This is not a blog entry
- 09/February/2003: New Shower Curtain
- 20/January/2003: Have you eaten your 5 portions?
- 11/January/2003: I'm back (The infamous first posting. Well, first posting on this blog anyway.)