New blog, new rules
I’m blogging again. Or at least, I’m motivated enough to mothball the 8 year-old spammed-to-death carcrash of a Movable Type install on my server and shift to a hosted WordPress blog mapped onto...
View ArticleKilling Zombies: How to *really* delete yourself from Facebook
I decided to delete my Facebook account a couple of days ago. I found I was hardly using it – certainly not enough to justify upsetting friends who assumed otherwise and were thus unwittingly ignored....
View ArticleTwo skateboarders, one Flip HD and a hospital car park
One of the skateboarders is my son. With 50% Loosemore DNA, I’m amazed he has sufficient co-ordination to skateboard. Barney and Luke now have their own YouTube channel. I am officially A Proud Dad.
View ArticleKenneth Grange at The Design Museum
Last month Jo and I left the kids asleep in bed and dashed off to be first in line for the last day of the Kenneth Grange exhibition at The Design Museum in London. It was rather like seeing your youth...
View ArticleIn praise of Malcolm Barnsley
A decade ago I read an article about two men setting out to break the outright world speed sailing record – then just over 45 knots. They were proposing to build a radical new kind of sailing boat....
View ArticleBen Moon is 49
Ben Moon is 49. 25 years ago he climbed Hubble (8c+), then the hardest climb in the world. Last week he climbed Rainshadow, a 9a route at Malham Cove. In my late teens he and Jerry Moffatt were our...
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