Adrian Melrose on being an early adopter

A Journey’s end

December 11, 2011

Find me at AdrianMelrose.com

Thanks for visiting Fat Ideas.

I’ve reached the end of my journey on Fatideas.com.

Normal service resumes at blog.AdrianMelrose.com which is a Tumblr blog and you can also visit AdrianMelrose.com which is an aggregator of any media I create as well as my favourites that I find in my stream.

If you skip over to the new blog, this post explains why I’ve abandoned this real estate!

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