Eight days I arrived in Berlin in order to attend WordCamp Europe 2019 in Berlin. This annual event is one of the biggest events in the WordPress calendar and is attended by many important people in the industry. It was my fourth WordCamp Europe event after Paris in 2017, Vienna …
It is a week since I returned from WordCamp Europe 2016 in Vienna, Austria. This was the second European WordCamp event I had attended and my second WordCamp event overall. Those of you who read my account of last year’s event will know that the event in Vienna had a …
I have been writing regularly about WordPress since 2007 and using the WordPress platform since it launched a few years earlier. Since I moved away from making money online through gambling affiliation, it is fair to say that WordPress has been my bread and butter. It has been at the …
Two days ago I passed a small personal milestone. Perhaps milestone is the wrong word to use as I did not lose 100 lbs of weight, climb a mountain or jump out of an aeroplane. 5 February 2013 was the day that I stopped eating meat. The strange thing is …
I arrived safely in Manta, Ecuador on Friday night. We had three flights to take: Asunción (Paraguay) to Lima (Peru), Lima to Quito (Capital of Ecuador), Quito to Manta (West coast of Ecuador). Door to door, the journey took 20 hours. I’ve taken longer journeys before and been fine but …
I touched down in Glasgow this morning at 7am after a very enjoyable 6 days in New York. 9 of my mates booked up last year when I was still in New Zealand so whereas me and my friend George travelled direct from Glasgow, they had to all go via …