Six or seven years ago our eldest child, then a preschooler, drew me a picture of the Internet. I framed it and I keep it on the landing outside my bedroom - y'know, in case I get lost on the Internet and need a map:

I found myself reminded of this piece of childhood art when she once again volunteering, sabbatical, hosting, three rings, children, parenting, internet, dogs

tl;dr: I'm tidying up and consolidating my personal hosting; I've made a little progress, but I've got a way to go - fortunately I've got a sabbatical coming up at work!

At the weekend, I kicked-off what will doubtless be a multi-week process of gradually tidying and consolidating some of the abnib, automattic, sabbatical, rockmonkey, hosting, web, deed poll, blogging, github, dungeons and dragons, hangman, geohashing, freshrss, internet, murder mystery

For the last eight winters, we at Three Rings have sent out Christmas cards - and sometimes mugs! - to our clients (and to special friends of the project). The first of these was something I knocked up in Photoshop in under an hour, but we've since expanded into having an official "company artist" christmas, hosting, three rings, bytemark