Matthew Lang

Apologies. Missed a couple of these in November and December!

After the feasting and festivities over Christmas, the New Year weekend was a chance to get some sense of normality back.

Me and Jen took the boys to the ten pin bowling on the Friday morning just to do something different. Poor performances by all except from Drew who won both games!

New Years Eve was a quiet day and a chance for the boys to mess about with their presents.

New Years Day involved dinner at my parents house. While most people might have ordered their steak pie from their local butchers (not a bad option by the way), my mum opted to make hers from scratch. It went down a storm, especially with the boys who love their steak pie.

To round off the long weekend I took Ethan up to the golf club for a few holes. The weather wasn’t great but it didn’t stop him putting in a solid nine holes. I’m starting to find some consistency as well which is good.

I’m starting a newsletter this year.

Yes, I’m a bit late to the newsletter thing and yes this is probably another newsletter that you don’t need, but here me out before you make any decisions.

On the 19th of each month I’ll send you a long form piece of writing about my thoughts on a topic that will usually revolve around technology, productivity or products. If you like my blog then you can expect content along the same lines, just in a longer form. Each month, I’ll also include a link list of interesting titbits from the Internet that have caught my attention and I think are worth passing on.

Interested?

Sign up here then please!

First edition drops on the 19th of January and is entitled, “Back to basics”.

Manton Reece is launching a new microblogging service and a book about independent microblogging.

I didn’t even need to think about backing this. I’ve been looking for an alternative to Twitter for sometime now. App.net has faded away and there’s nothing else out there that focuses on the open web in the way that Manton’s new service will.

Backed.

Update: Some links in this post pointed to pages that no longer exist and have been removed.

When everyone else is making resolutions to do things like less social media, less eating, less television, Kurt is making resolutions to do more.

Love it.

… for 2017.

Sorry people, couldn’t resist.

via starwars.tumblr.com

You might want to start with Nicholas Bate then.

Update: Some links in this post pointed to pages that no longer exist and have been removed.