Citizensheep. "Michael Grimes lives in Birmingham (UK). This is his blog about anything that he fancies."

I’ll expand on this later, but I have to rush out of the house right now. But below is where I will be live-blogging from the event this afternoon. The event was great, but I gave up trying to live-blog. At the moment social media requires quite a skill in multi-tasking, and I certainly don’t [...]

Ok, I’ve finally decided I may as well publish my Twitter mosaic; only because the look pretty, mind. (Mosaics were correct at the time of writing.) Friends These are the profiles which I find interesting enough to follow: Followers And these are all the folk who – for reasons known only to themselves – are [...]

I rarely go to gigs these days, but a couple of Fridays ago – on a whim – I joined Pete Ashton at the Hare and Hounds in Kings Heath to see a band I’d never heard of. It was a good whim. I’m not going to try and write a piece of music journalism [...]

This is AWESOME!! And threatens minutes of complete time-wasting. It's a very garish qwerty keyboard (Flash-base, I presume) with an 80s drum noise behind each key. Click those minutes away!

Visit Drum Set

The Times Labs have joined the ranks of those pushing Twitter to its limits. It's tweeting the entirety of Romeo and Juliet over the next month: with cats. There are 15 accounts – one for each of the main characters – and a line from the play is tweeted every 15 minutes.

Good to see that the same paper which throws scorn upon Twitter is testing it with such intellectual rigour. Not.

Visit Wherefore art Romeo and Juliet on Twitter?

Instead of polluting the air with artificial fresheners, try adding a drop of lavender oil to the vacuum cleaner bag before hoovering.

For a long time I had no way of knowing who to ask specific technical questions of, and now – thanks to the power of social media – I suddenly know loads of people on whose expertise I can call. The trouble is, when does the relationship become professional and require a financial commitment? This [...]

Explaining to the uninitiated why web feeds are useful is something a lot of us find hard to do. So here I’ve attempted to draw an analogy: with fish. I’m not actually going to try and explain what RSS is (or equivalents such as Atom), because it’s a bit technical and has a confusing history [...]

Too many plastic bags? Use the biodegradable ones to dispose of pet litter.

I keep finding myself wanting to blog, but not having anything to write about. It’s not that I don’t do anything – recently I’ve been doing quite a lot – it’s more that I want something easy, different and uncontroversial to cover. I have plenty of opinions but they’re not that interesting, they require a [...]