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Weird Dreams

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I had the by far the strangest dream in quite some time last night - and it’s content was controversial enough that I can’t easily share any of it. Let’s jus...

Remembering When Things Were A Thing

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One of the main reasons I moved this blog to Blogger is because I’m less likely to tinker with it. Less likely to dick around with the mechanics of it. Less ...

From There To Here A Personal Blogging Journey

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For me it all began in the late 1980s, with the explosion of Compuserve and AOL, and the lowering of the bar to a point where everybody could understand how ...

15 Minutes

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I have 15 minutes until a conference call starts. I can’t really do anything productive in those 15 minutes, so guess what - you’re going to get a high speed...

Why Is It Called Recursive Words

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While cycling home from work, I began thinking about all sorts of random crap - as you do - and while waiting for a line of cars at a junction to attempt to ...

The Wordpress Spam Nightmare

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I decided to move my blog back to WordPress at lunchtime, and unwittingly came across the spam bug in WordPresswhen you re-publish a post that has previously...

Security Through Obscurity

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One of my oldest and closest friends on the internet commented on a recent post that all we invariably share via public blog posts is a “highlight reel” of o...

And The Pretty People Smiled

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While leaving the supermarket yesterday afternoon, attempting to push a metric ton of groceries towards the car-park while flanked by my other half and sever...