Who Are We All?

I thought it might be useful for us to introduce ourselves to one another, and perhaps provide links to our blogs?

My name is Sally, and I'm a technology journalist. I write a blog at Who's the Mummy and also edit the Great Toy Guide, when I'm not organising the MAD Blog Awards.

I live in the North West with my four-year-old daughter, Flea.

I'm a Mac user, and I like Typepad. I do try to love Wordpress but often it makes me cross and frowny.

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Permalink Reply by Tim Atkinson on May 12, 2010 at 7:34am

Is 'cross and frowny' tech-speak or is that the way we all feel when faced with the unfathomable mysteries of t'internet?

From Tim, stay-at-home dad and non-techie writer!

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Permalink Reply by Pippa Wright on May 17, 2010 at 5:26am

Well I am Me (Pippa D) and I have a techie husband and techie friends as I used to work for an ISP. I know lots of clever sounding words that make me sound like I know what I am talking about in technical situations but that is about it... just don't tell my husband as he married me for my brains as well as my looks.

I am in Milton Keynes and I am a PC and not a Mac user although I would like the chance to be!

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Permalink Reply by glowstars on May 17, 2010 at 3:01pm

I'm Vic and I blog at Glowstars.net. The husband works with web design so he's been the one who's set up my blog on wordpress. I've not tried typepad but I'd take wordpress over blogger any day. We're a four computer family - all PCs. I don't think I could get my head around a mac!

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Permalink Reply by Pippa Wright on May 17, 2010 at 3:05pm

We counted the number of PC's in our house yesterday. We stopped when we got to 16 as we thought that if we counted anymore we would sound a bit like the tech has taken over the house!

glowstars said:

I'm Vic and I blog at Glowstars.net. The husband works with web design so he's been the one who's set up my blog on wordpress. I've not tried typepad but I'd take wordpress over blogger any day. We're a four computer family - all PCs. I don't think I could get my head around a mac!

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Permalink Reply by glowstars on May 17, 2010 at 3:07pm

I can see another two that aren't hooked up....
It's worrying that we've got more computers in the house than people, especially seeing as one of us is too young to even use one!

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Permalink Reply by Sally Whittle on May 17, 2010 at 3:29pm

It's a *highly* professional and technical term. Ahem.

Tim Atkinson said:

Is 'cross and frowny' tech-speak or is that the way we all feel when faced with the unfathomable mysteries of t'internet?

From Tim, stay-at-home dad and non-techie writer!

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Permalink Reply by Lesley Harrison on May 25, 2010 at 12:38pm

Hi all!

I'm a tech author and games journalist. My first book, the Beginner's Guide to WordPress-MU (The multi-user version of WordPress, which lets you run several blogs from one install), came out last year.

I'm working on my second book now (well, I'm supposed to be, but it's so hot these days, I can't think straight!).

My blog is at: http://lesleyharrison.wordpress.com/

In my spare time, I volunteer as a bug triager and a developer for open source projects, such as Ubuntu, Gnome, and Firefox.

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Permalink Reply by Alex Walsh on May 26, 2010 at 6:56am

Wow, a wordpress mu expert :)

I'm Alex, I blog variously at Daddacool, MummyReviews (which I webmaster) and I am Currently Reading (which is on wordpress mu, pending the many other blogs happening that I have planned). I know it sounds greedy having so many blogs but I need focus and if I have an unfocused blog, nothing gets posted :)

I'm a self styled fiddler who may or may not manage to get things done in IT (I'm an accountant by day) but I have done plenty of PC self builds over the years and never quite managed to destroy self hosted websites.

Back in the day (1995) I used to hand write HTML in notepad for my first forays into webdesign. They weren't pretty :)

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