blog

just a quick post to say i attempted to move the blog to wordpress last night, but it hasn’t worked properly and doesn’t make a slick uploading/editing process so i’ve gone back to ropey old (un)movable type.  apologies for the continued inconveniences.

and thanks for all your feedbacks last week.  you’ve given me some good suggestions which i’ll attempt to put in to action if i ever manage to do the upgrade.

more to follow … hopefully.

i had an email from anna (you know, anna, from west virginia) telling me she’d just googled for ‘funky pancake’ and found this site.  she googled for funky pancake as that’s what she’s named her part border collie, part gold retriever puppy who is just five and half months old !

she kindly sent me a picture (of funky pancake rather than anna i assume – unless she’s a particularly net-savvy pup)

so there we are.  however, for future reference, when i refer to Mrs funkypancake i’m referring to my wife rather than this cute looking pup who lives a few thousand miles west of here !

(thanks to anna for letting me post a piccy)

some photos from the most excellent Interesting 2008

the crowd as seen from the stage during my nightmare of comedy compering

the man who designed the (back of our) money

the impromptu recorder orchestra

a compere’s shadow

a man of faces

a man of zeotropes

this year i went to the bar after and chatted with lots of lovely people.  here are damien mulley and annie mole down t’pub after (both legendary bloggers)

i nearly ended up having to sing a song in public yesterday.  i did have a song prepared (not this one) but it was slightly too late as when i was being hassled to do it i didn’t remember i knew one.  anyway, the one above is old, but i’ve just got round to posting to YouTube.  i think i’ve blogged it before.  but you know. it’s a good un. 

it’s from the early 90s when i were a nipper.  i was known as spoonchicken (or spoon chicken) back then in the glorious town of Sheffield.

just a quick apology for the lack of comments and slightly more random arrival of daily updates on funkypancake at the moment.  it seems funkypancake is causing serious problems to the webserver, so whilst we’re working on ways to make things better, all comments are off i’m afraid.

just so you know, i’m going to attempt to upgrade the blog today, so apologies if things go wrong. i’ll let you know when things should be done. expert weird behaviour in the interim !
update: things are taking much longer than i expected !

remember interesting 2007 ? well, i’ve synced my live commentary to the photos

see here if the thing above doesn’t work
thanks again to russell for letting me speak.
the little video with me prancing about is here

a few months ago i did a presentation at Russell Davies’ excellent interesting 2007conference. i enjoyed it immensely. and it’s now been posted on Russell’s blog
if you weren’t able to attend (or even if you did) you can now watch it here bigly
there’s a few minutes missing in the middle due to a tape change, which is quite nice as it makes the original ‘live’ version more exclusive !
thanks again to Russell for letting me present

interesting2007 was excellent. my talk went ok i think. i enjoyed presenting and people seemed to laugh in the right places. here’s a picture tony took of me in mid flow.

here’s russell and his shadow

here’s a chap playing the saw and his shadow

here’s a picture i drew of tony without looking, thus proving that photography is probably my preferred medium

and here’s the superior picture tony drew of me proving he’s got better coordination than i have

at some point, i’ll get my presentation podcasted up so you can see what i presented if you are interested. meanwhile there are other pictures from the conference on its flickr pool

yikes. today (saturday) i’m talking at Interesting 2007. i’ve got a 15-20mins slot and have 212 powerpoint slides. i do a lot of presentations at work, and often throw in a few funkypancake pictures for good measure. but this one is just about the photos. panic is brewing !

(picture of london is a bit tenuous and only relates to the fact i’ll be in london on a saturday)

As a special treat to you i’ve sifted through the funkypancake archives and chosen some choice photos from each month to add to my funkypancake flickr page. i’ll attempt to update this each month with the best photos.

if you’ve got a flickr account i’d be delighted to add you as a contact – do the online thing (possibly here if you are logged in).

beaches are great for free temporary blog advertising

people spent ages reading it, trying to work out what it means (rather like the blog itself perhaps)

thanks to my lovely wife jane for project managing the urban scrawl

are you having any problems with reading funkypancake ? i’ve had a couple of emails over the last few days saying funkypancake was not displaying properly and/or not letting them leave comments.
if you are having trouble, or can think of a way of improving things, can you drop me an email pls:
blog@funkypancake.com and add the subject title ‘broken blog’ so it doesn’t get lost in all the spam.
thank you kindly