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Casting A Beautiful Net

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It’s 7pm on Sunday evening. The weekend is almost over. I’m just trying to take stock - trying to fit together where the day went. One of our friend’s childr...

Overload

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I’ve had the strangest feeling recently - like there’s just too much of everything. Too many websites. Too much information. Too many people. Too many conver...

A Walk Along The River

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I had the day off work yesterday - a day away from the office, programming, computers - a day away from everything. The children have been on half-term this ...

Out Of Steam

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I have the day off work tomorrow. I’m almost giddy with excitement. Ok, maybe that’s a bit of an exaggeration. In all likelihood I’ll be taking the kids down...

Rugby Referee And Hockey Goalie

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The children are on half term at the moment - which under normal circumstances would mean the house is relatively peaceful on a morning. Of course normal cir...

Almost Seduced By The Marketing Monster

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In-between conference calls, writing an endless stream of source code, cycling home, washing up, clearing the kitchen, and paying my children to tidy their r...

Where Did Monday Go

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How is it already 9pm? Where did Monday go? How did I manage to make it through the day after falling asleep at 2am, and waking up again 4 hours later? Why d...

Saturday

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It only occurred to me this evening that I didn’t post to the blog yesterday. After flying home from Germany I raced home to continue working for several hou...

Winding Down

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This evening I feel like a clockwork toy that is slowly winding down. It’s not that I’m particularly tired - just weary.

Counting The Hours

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It’s half past nine in the evening, and you find me sitting in my fifth floor hotel room with the window open to the night air. Richard Marx is singing about...