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Untangling Tangled Things

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There I was, sitting down to enjoy the rather pathetic lunch I had made as an afterthought before leaving the house this morning, leaning over the keyboard m...

The Experiment Comes To An End

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I am pulling the plug on WeTheUsers at the end of the week. It’s a curious feelingwalking away from something that’s quite good, and that lots of other peopl...

Why I Dont Write A Technical Blog Any More

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For many years I wrote two blogs on the internetone where I recorded life the universe and everything (read: hopes, dreams, idiotic thoughts, daily life, etc...

Football Football And More Football

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This weekend was dominated from start to finish by football matches for our youngest daughter. She played with the newly formed under 11 girls team on Saturd...

Small World Problems

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I’ve been writing blog posts, posting in forums, and taking part in social networks for yearssince beforethe beginning of the world wide web.

Removing Facebook From My Phone

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I removed Facebook and Facebook Messenger from my phone yesterday. I’m not deleting the account entirely, because it’s useful to have the account (there are ...

Combatting The Lurgy

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Today finds me holed up at home, making worryingly regular visits to the downstairs bathroom. Let’s just say my insides seem to want to become my outsides. N...

Avoiding The Onslaught

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While checking the news at lunchtime I happened to glance at Twitter as the news broke that the actor Alan Rickman had died. No doubt the massed ranks of the...

12 Years Old

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Soit’s officialour middle daughter has been alive for twelve orbits of the sun. Nine of those orbits have been spent with us as her parentswe adopted her whe...