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Because you can never have too much reputation management

tom — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:52:49 +0000

Tom Critchlow just started a posterous.

Since it’s SO easy to post on there I think I’ll hang out over there for a little bit. That’s all.

No Luke, I am your future

tom — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:24:19 +0000

So in the spirit of blogging more regularly (there’s another album review launching at 5 tonight!) I thought I’d let you know that I’ve been accepted into Courvoisier Future 500 which is pretty awesome! Of course, the main reason I’m writing this blog post is to link to my Distilled post as I think it’d be amusing for it to out-rank the Courvoisier website so if any of you fancy joining in at home and linking as well then please point your links at the distilled post and don’t forget the anchor text!

Things are chaning around here

tom — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:29:53 +0000

Apologies for the lack of updates around here recently, I’d like to claim it’s been because of the hordes of fan mail I’ve received but in truth it’s been because a lion bit off my fingers. They’re better now of course.

Anyway – I’m going to trial something for a little bit, in true Zen habits fashion, by proclaiming my ambition right here on the blog it means I’m more accountable for it. You, yes you, the loyal readers can pester me if I deviate from my ascribed plans.

So without further ado – from here on in I’m posting an album review every (week) day. Sounds tough, well let’s see if I can manage it. Of course most reviews will be short but hey, that’s the way these things go. Gotta be better than the lack of content on here at the moment right?

The Funniest Thing Ever Written

tom — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:09:35 +0000

Is this – the gossage-vardabedian paper by Woody Allen. Please please please take the time to read it. It’s incredibly funny.

What ‘playing on the internet’ gave me

tom — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:49:29 +0000

So while I’m whiling away the evening playing on the internet I thought I’d throw up a blog post about everything ‘playing on the internet’ has given me in my life:

It taught me to play poker. Sure, it was expensive to start with but all hobbies are and once I’d gotten the hang of it I’ve made a fairly healthy sum of money from it (which some day will be spent on hookers and blow. Just you wait….). Not to mention the free trip to Vegas!
It gave me a career. Reading blogs and finding funny shit online is my job. Bonza.
I found the bigchill festival and with it the associated forum where lots of lovely people have shared gigabytes upon gigabytes of good music with me, not to mention the joys of the festival itself (officially the best weekend of the year).
It also taught me how to make mp3 mixes so I can make virtual mixtapes.
I found my girlfriend online.
The interweb gave me every single episode of seinfeld right there on my computer. Seinfeld got me into good comedy and opened my eyes to the horrors of life. Thanks Jerry!

Is there anything else to life?

Want some wedding photography?

tom — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:59:12 +0000

If you’re in the UK, or more specifically London then you should check out this cool site from a friend off the bigchill forums.

he also has a blog here

So for all your london wedding photography needs check him out (all stumbles appreciated too!)

And best of luck to matt for living the dream

BUT HOW DO THEY KNOW??!?

tom — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:14:08 +0000

I’ve been consistently impressed by Amazon’s personalised recommendations and I often browse through their recommendations before I make my emusic downloads each month. So they’re good at it, ok, they have a lot of data to show me, ok.

But how in the world do they know this?

For those of you who have ever played poker with me, well ‘aggressive player’ doesn’t quite describe my style of play but it comes close!

Welcome to my new blog

admin — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 10:30:09 +0000

Facts:

This is a blog
The revolution will not be televised
I like music
I currently write on about 8 blogs so don’t expect this to be regularly updated
If you know who I am (and it’s not really a secret) then don’t be offended by anything I write here. It’s all personal etc etc. Non work related yaddayaddyadda
I read books.
Social media and internet marketing is my job but also my hobby
iTunes sucks

Fiction:

I care about your opinions
Life should be taken seriously

And there you have it. More to come soon.