The whole irony is that this is my third attempt to get blogging. Somewhere out there is a blogspot page, and most recenntly I lost www.london-story.com because I didn’t renew.. hmm.. why is it ironic? Well I spend most of my waking days explaining to businesspeeps how to get the most out of the internet. How Web 2.0 will revolutionise their customers’ online experiences. And then I can’t log on.
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After several failed attempts to post content on my very own web log, this one might actually work. There is some history here: in 2001 I travelled India with my cousin (and a Handspring PDA which I wrote my diary in – I knew I should have written in a book like Andrea told me.) After the PDA crashed – not in India mind, in Streatham – while transcribing the contents of a recipe for a particularly spicy dal, I cried a little then vowed to back up.
.Mac works well for me now; I have a 160 gig external hard drive, discs full of pictures and songs, and just signed up to the 4gig free bt.com/digital-vault.
Still having a bog has eluded me. In 2004 I bought a box from Mr. Site. I bought one for a friend for his birthday too. When I went to www.london-story.com it wasn’t what it was last time I looked, and they never thought to remind me to update. Their loss? Not really – my loss as I lost a whole load of stories. Luckily these are backed up in a little red book, a book I wrote in 1995 when I first arrived in Londontown.
Dave Reilly introduced me to WordPress – he set me up on it. He used it to write his diary of events when he travelled the world in 2004. Cheers Dave (www.barracuda-digital.co.uk) Free PR there for you mate – he’s a Search Marketing guru. There are none like him.
I have a blog now and I will use it to download my thoughts and hopefully to build some content. Hatmatic was an idea I came up with in 1995 too, in that little red book, and I thought it needed to happen one day that I set up and run a company by that name. I had a funky little strapline ‘n’ everything. So in 2005 I went limited. So far, we’ve done digital business consultancy. Now we advise businesses on how to make the most of their digital presence, for revenue. You can read about it here: www.hatmatic.co.uk.
I’ve picked up a bit of Dreamweaver, so am going to try and update it a bit more – I’ve had lessons ‘n’ everything. I’m also learning how to use Movie Shaker software so I can edit my Micro MV tapes. I plan to carry stuff about with the Hatmatic brand.
Why Hatmatic? Lots of different hats. Matt the Hat.
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