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Sunday Afternoon

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It’s Sunday afternoon. The kids are playing with their friend in the park outside, the Kindle Fire is playing “Halt and Catch Fire” while propped against the...

Blogging 101 Ends

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And so it was, while pretending to look like he knew what he was doing, he stumbled through January without falling over, and stayed the course. He followed ...

Rediscovering The Past

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While digging through the long forgotten catacombs of the external network drive at home this evening, I came across a rather sizeable XML file with a crypti...

On The Occasion Of A 40Th Birthday

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After work yesterday evening we broke all kinds of unwritten rules, and went out for a meal with friends at the pub -on a school night. Consequently this mor...

In Retrospect Our Adoption Journey

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After resurrecting thousands of archived posts back into the blog earlier this evening, it occurred to me that I can finally re-tell our adoption journey onc...

Choosing A Writing Weapon Of Choice

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While taking part in the Blogging101 course over the last month at WordPress, I have arm-twisted myself into writing more than in quite some time - which has...

The Journey Home

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When I woke this morning a thought occurred to me - a rather important thought. Where and when was I supposed to be meeting with the client ? I slid out of t...

Trains Hotels Pizzas And Numpties

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Everything was going so well. I got up, had a shower, made packed lunches, dropped the children off at school, went into the office for a few hours, came hom...

Has Anybody Seen The Weekend

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I’ve been sitting on the couch with the netbook for the last hour, half watching the television, half wondering what to write about, and half watching the re...

Reinstalling Windows On The Netbook

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Now and again I write a post that is so mundane, so boring, and so nerdy that those unfortunate enough to begin reading itconsider putting some kind of warni...