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The In Between

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I feel like I’m in-between everything at the moment, and I don’t know how to explain it. Not just in-between doing things more like I have fallen into some k...

Chess

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While browsing YouTube videos late one evening a few months ago, I happened upon a presentation about the Google Alpha Zero project. If you’ve not heard of i...

A Very Short Post

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Just a few words to tell those of you that follow me that everything is fine, there is nothing wrong, and the gaps in my almost-daily posts are just down to ...

Another Normal

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After escaping late from the office this evening I returned to the hotel, folded my work clothes back into my case instead of preparing them for the morning ...

Walking The Streets

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This post was going to be a rant-laden bucket of foaming invective about the failures of the Germany rail network, and the catalogue of first world failures ...

Departure Lounge

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It’s 8:55am, and you find me sitting in the middle of the departure lounge at London Heathrow airport. I woke at 6am, had a shower, then made bacon sandwiche...

Footholds

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I have somehow ended up with almost identical blogs at WordPress, Tumblr, and LiveJournal. Yes, LiveJournal still exists - stop laughing. Anyway - cutting a ...

Unbeliever

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There was a knock at the door a few moments ago. A rather loud and confident knock. I made me way to the door, wondering if it might be the little boy that l...

Falling Into The Weekend

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I’ve been sitting in front of the computer in the junk room for the last hour, thinking I should post something or other, but no words are appearing on the s...

Perceptions And Assumptions

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Several times in the last few days I have caught myself worrying about what people might think about entirely innocent situations I write about, or find myse...