Chronicles of Mark TE

“‘Mind you, it’s all inconsequential stuff;...”
— Marian Keyes, Sushi for...

Jul 30th

How To: Predict the weather without checking...

Jul 30th

Micro Maniac

Jul 25th

Mac Tip: Automatically shut down and boot...

Jul 25th

“Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of...”
— Albert Einstein

Jul 24th

Paid volunteers

Jul 24th

Watch

How To Give A Great Man To Man Hug (Root category: Etiquette) (via scribbling.net)

Jul 24th

Photograph by few pigeons in suburbia

Jul 23rd

Famous Poems Rewritten as Limericks

Jul 23rd

Add Copy To / Move To to the Windows Explorer...

Jul 23rd

Other People's Poems: Invictus

OUT of the night that covers me,   Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may...

Jul 23rd

Watch

Via WHY, THAT’S DELIGHTFUL!

Jul 23rd

10 Tips for Photographing Babies

Jul 22nd

DVC Learning Style Survey for College

Jul 22nd

Tutorial: Learn how to give a good back...

Jul 22nd

Twitter Feed Removed

I have removed my Twitter feed from this Tumbler blog. You’ll have to open it up yourself, if...

Jul 21st

Mark M: Right… off to the baby shop! Actually, things to take care of a baby. They don’t...

Jul 20th

Mark M: @misfitduck You’re just jealous! What was that nice laptop you tried last week? (via...

Jul 20th

Mark M: @shazzer Just found Twitterific today. Neat. Pops up in the bar near the clock. (via Twitter...

Jul 20th

Mark M: @misfitduck Can’t you feed them sherry or whiskey so they fall asleep? (via Twitter /...

Jul 20th

Mark M: Babysurfing now. Only 4 weeks to go, until our first child is (estimated) due. (via Twitter...

Jul 20th

Mark M: @misfitduck Cats keeping you up at night again? (via Twitter / Mark M)

Jul 20th

Twitter: Add events to GCal and why Twitter...

Jul 20th

Mark M: Weekend = internet fast. (via Twitter / Mark M)

Jul 20th

“I love you, not only for what you are, But for what I am...”
— Roy Croft

Jul 20th

uʍop ǝpısdn ƃuıɥʇʎuɐ ǝʇıɹʍ :ʞɔıɹʇ qǝʍ pıdnʇs

Jul 20th

Mark M: No, *you* should get the Nobel prize for literature, man, that email was too funny! (via...

Jul 20th

Mark M: That jacket really shows off your cleavage, sir. (via Twitter / Mark M)

Jul 20th

Mark M: That shirt really brings out the colour of your eyes. (via Twitter / Mark M)

Jul 20th

Watch

The Simpsons’ theme, via Chris Brogan.

Jul 19th

Mark M: Your moustache. It is incredible! (via Twitter / Mark M)

Jul 19th

Mark M: I hate to see you leave, but I love to watch you walk away. (via Twitter / Mark M)

Jul 19th

Mark M: Today is random compliments day. (via Twitter / Mark M)

Jul 19th

From the often brilliant Xkcd.

Jul 19th

“It is like saying ‘there are synthesizers now, we...”
— Nicholas Meyer, director of...

Jul 18th

“Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon!”
— Hermione to Ron in the movie...

Jul 18th

“The wrong job means you’re more tired and less effective;...”
— Chuck Westbrook, on his blog I...

Jul 17th

“Chalk” Homer - an advertising gimmick. Read...

Jul 17th

Mark M: Holiday season is upon us. It really feels as if I’m all alone in the building. I...

Jul 16th

Ye Olde Name the First Five Tracks on...

Wherein one lists the first five tracks ones iPod coughs up when set to shuffle. Mine is actually an...

Jul 15th

Mark M: When you start fantasising about being knocked down by a bus, so that you get a few weeks in...

Jul 15th

Sign from O’Leary’s Sports Bar at Malmö...

Jul 15th

Mark M: @chrisbrogan Sign in O’Leary’s sports bar in Malmö: “Don’t just...

Jul 14th

Mark M: I think I just got bitten by a ladybird! (via Twitter / Mark M)

Jul 14th

“If ever you do challenge me to a duel, your safest bet will...”
— Number Twelve (pretending to...

Jul 13th

“There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not...”
— Arthur C. Clarke

Jul 13th

Mark M: @chrisbrogan Maybe we should say “Yes! Finally conscious and feeling refreshed! What...

Jul 13th

Mark M: @chrisbrogan That’s your first question on a Friday? Who needs consciousness? What are...

Jul 13th

Mark M: I’m screaming inside my head. I suspect that nobody knows. I’m hot and I’m...

Jul 13th

Mark M: All passion I had for my work is now dead. RIP. Time to pack my bags and move on, I suppose,...

Jul 12th

Mark M: The most important button on my phone: the OFF button! It’s also my favourite. (via...

Jul 12th

"Murder in Suburbia" is my second...

Ash: What's my single, most important rule about men, Scribbs?
Scribbs: Uh, they mustn't be married?
Ash: No, the other one.
Scribbs: No bad boys.
Ash: Because?
Scribbs: They're bad.
Ash: And?
Scribbs: They're boys.

Jul 11th

33 Names

Jul 11th

Shimano Coasting

Jul 11th

Nine Brain Quirks You Didn’t Realize You Had

Jul 11th

Choose to be happy

Jul 11th

Other People's Poems: The Shooting of...

A bunch of the boys were whooping it up in the Malamute saloon; The kid that handles the music-box...

Jul 10th

10 Ways to Have a Happy Workday

Jul 9th

lolmetal

Jul 9th

Mark M: Ugh. I’m so sleepy today, it’s not funny. (via Twitter / Mark M)

Jul 9th

Mark M: Four countries in five and a half hours. This time, with baggage. (via Twitter / Mark M)

Jul 9th

Mark M: In Schipol Airport, craving good pizza. Anyone know where to get some? (via Twitter / Mark...

Jul 9th

Mark M: Travel day again. My case arrived in time for me to bring it home again. Sigh. (via Twitter...

Jul 9th

Mark M: Never come to Copenhagen Airport hungry. You’ll leave (eventually) broke and hungry....

Jul 6th

Mark M: My first flight is delayed by an hour. I have a little margin, so I’m not worried....

Jul 6th

Mark M: One hour since I left home, and I’m already in Denmark, checked in, and through...

Jul 6th

Mark M: The rain has stopped for now. We’ll have to see if the trains are running, and if I...

Jul 5th

Mark M: Traffic chaos in southern Sweden today. Later today, I’ll travel through four...

Jul 5th

Mark M: Drank some coffee… smashed a glass… I’m good to go again… (via...

Jul 5th

Mark M: Afternoon slump. Time to step away from The Infernal Machine and eat some fruit. I have...

Jul 5th

“Fiat wants to become the car world’s Apple; the...”
— BBC News article about the new...

Jul 4th

Mark M: I have a sudden urge to break out Van Halen’s “5150” and celebrate summer....

Jul 4th

Creating The Perfect Solution For Your Client

Jul 4th

Mark M: Broke away from the desk and took a walk around the building. I came back feeling refreshed...

Jul 3rd

Mark M: Hur fel jag var. Allt var slutsålt, och vi kom hem tomhant. Det har ju aldrig hänt innan....

Jul 3rd

Mark M: IKEA-utflykt på gång. En fack för allting, och allting i sitt fack. (via Twitter / Mark M)

Jul 3rd

Mark M: Ultrasound with Sara today. Our baby is perfectly healthy… and we know what gender it...

Jul 3rd

Mark M: Signed my new contract yesterday. I’m now officially “management”. (via...

Jul 3rd

Mark M: @chrisbrogan I have a picture of my life two years from now - professionally and personally...

Jul 3rd

Mark M: @briggsb Summer messes with my work too: everyone but me is on holiday. I have lots to do,...

Jul 3rd

How would you answer these six basic...

Jul 3rd

From tumbl.us

Jul 2nd

Mark M: @chrisbrogan http://tumbl.us/post/4712469 (via Twitter / Mark M)

Jul 2nd

Mark M: Yesterday’s “duh” moment: Business occurs between *people*, and not...

Jul 2nd

“Modern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out...”
— George Orwell, Politics and...

Jul 1st

Hungarian tongue-twisters

Jul 1st

Mark M: Crawling back onto the net, after a workload-induced internet fast. 150 new emails in Gmail,...

Jul 1st

From Savage Chickens, naturally.

Jul 1st