As Beyoncé once sang, “Shoes on my feet, Alf Garnett”.
It is with those words in mind that I have been fiddling with the sidebar of this blog and integrating all kinds of peripheral schitt. The blog software I use, Wordpress, has become a bit of a shitbag to work with at times but I’ve now got it under control by upgrading to the latest version and using tons of widgets. This is the bit where my dad would chip in with the history of the widget in Economics and how we use the word all wrong now. This isn’t his blog though. This is.
I was in London mainly for his “retirement” party. The idea of him doing any less than seven days work a week is ridiculous and the party would better be termed an “end of contract party” or something. Anyway it was great to have an excuse to tell people how proud I am of him, and to see him in his natural environment, working a slide show off his laptop and ad-libbing. I’m also proud that his blog makes the first page of google for the ridiculously commonplace search terms “michael” and “edwards”. Jeebus.

Sidetracked. Blog changes. Yes…
I’m fuxxing with blip.fm until further notice. You can share music like youtube and it ties into last.fm and twitter really nicely. A simple and useful way to keep your folk abreast of what’s really good, I’ll be posting stuff there that I wouldn’t post here. Stuff which needs no introduction or stuff that defies words perhaps. Probably the former. Embedding a blip on your website looks like this:

What else? I got flickr, Twitter, Rateyourmusic, my last.fm journal (which I’m going to post to more) and anything else I could think of, all crammed into one measly sidebar. It’s not pretty but it is allmyshit.
As James Brown once sang, “WATCH ME!, Alf Garnett”. Best JB clip ever?