Hello beautifuls.

So I thought I'd just sit here and type about something I current embrace with both arms, and anything else that comes to hand that I can embrace with. That something being the wonder that is Twitter.

Okay so some people may have found themselves both wince and physically recoil at the T word, but likewise some people may have found themselves nodding and going "yes, it's rather good isn't it?"

So why do I love this silly thing that only lets you type about 30 words before it starts crying and doesn't let you send your message? I'll tell you why.

It's because it's quick, easy and keeps me in touch with pretty much everything ever... stuff I want to know, and stuff I couldn't give a damn about. Pretty much every news story I've had people talk to me about I've already picked up on Twitter several hours earlier.

An interesting extension to this is the fact I follow quite a number of UK comedians, writers and other such folk. For example, I follow Charlie Brooker @charltonbrooker and having watched NewsWipe on iPlayer last night, it was interesting to see the result of the thing Charlie had been tweeting about the few days prior to broadcast. He tweeted asking if anyone knew who had ownership rights to the "policeman clubbing protester" photo, and it obviously turned out someone did, as it made an appearance in the programme.

It's fantastic watching the comedy banter, ideas and games bouncing back and forth between the comedian community on Twitter, and exciting to know that some of these ideas might well crop up in future shows, routines or TV programmes. If I had to choose one Tweeter that people simply have to follow, it would be Peter Serafinowicz, that ridiculously tall man who seems to get typecast as a bastard in UK Comedy programmes and films, and the creator of his eponymously titled TV show, and Look Around You. He also holds regular pun contests and such with his followers, and it's always a good laugh.

Other reasons for liking Twitter? The fact that a fair number of my friends are on here, and it is fast becoming my preferred method of organising things with them. It's a great social interaction networking tool.

The Twitter Search tool is absolutely brilliant, something I've only recently started using. If you need to know anything whatsoever, you can generally type it into Twitter and get up to the minute information about it. There is also a brilliant add-in for Firefox that sticks latest Tweets relevant to your search term in Google.com.

I started out on Twitter in 07, didn't get it at all, and managed to let the thing collapse and die for a number of months. This was until I revived my interest in it with the brilliant Twitter app "tweetie" for my iPhone, and finding the various people I follow now were on the site.

Currently my set up is as follows:

Tweetie on iPhone (running three separate accounts.. including one I use for promoting deals at my place of work)

TweetDeck on the MBP, a brilliant tool for following and filtering a lot of people if you do track more than the average.

and a Twidget for my MBP dashboard which is useful when I'm not running TD.

If you haven't started using it, or like me you started then stopped... take some time to look into it further, I'm now a ridiculously regular user with quite a lot of followers and people I follow myself. It's a great community.

Get yourself tweeting!

Resurrecting a dead site like a particularly scratty half-worm eaten phoenix

Evening all.

So with a sudden urge to do something productive, possibly creative and mostly pointless, WTF is reborn.

Since these days I use a MacBook Pro with bugger all creative stuff on it, the focus of the site is mainly that of a blog and not of a virtual box to throw pictures and other such nonsense into.

All my oldie music craziness is still accessible at the lovely site my cousin made for me here.

I do have to say, I am completely out of my depth here. I'm accessing a site I haven't touched in two years, using an open source Mac web design thingy called NVu which up until ten minutes I didn't even own, or indeed had ever heard of. Not only that but I'm using an FTP client with a duck on it. This doesn't bode well.

The question on everybody's lips is of course "will he actually stick with it this time rather than updating once every year or so?" Well, let's keep everyone guessing. Including myself.

However, spurred into action given by the surprising number of people on Twitter who seem to find me vaguely interesting, I thought "sod it". Falling into the social networky thing without armbands on, my life seems to have drowned in updating nonsense to noone in particular. Glorious.

So settle down, enjoy the brown, and I'm going to run around this old site like a bunch of druggies in an abandoned warehouse, with a spray can, daubing this site with some sort of update, since half the links on this thing are pretty much dead.

Toodle piss darlings.

Okay so I'm delving even deeper into unknown territory.

If everything is sexy and ace, there should be a blog post, with these words on it, on my front page.

Yes it'll be formatted like a rubbish, but the fact is if I didn't set up an embedded blog, I'd end up with problems within three posts once I run out of room.

It makes sense, honest.