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And So The Great Lifestreaming Experiment Begins

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I’m not exactly sure that “lifestreaming” is a real word, but in the grand tradition of embracing new words into the living language we called “English”, I w...

Leaving A Legacy For Future Generations

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I just happened to wander into the lounge while W was watching an episode of the BBC genealogy series “Who Do You Think You Are?” - the featured celebrity wa...

5 Years Old New Bicycle

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A certain little girl wandered into our bedroom this morning, rubbing her eyes.

Plasticine Girl From Hell

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Shortly before leaving work this evening my other half called my mobile. I noticed it vibrating, and picked it up just in time to hear the following…

Open Source And Free Software

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In something of a marked departure from the previous post about making hideous little girls out of plasticine, I thought perhaps we might explore something I...

The Value Of Doing Nothing

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“Doing nothing” is a misnomer, isn’t it. There’s no such thing as “doing nothing”. Our hearts keep beating, our lungs keep inflating, and our nails keep grow...

A Message To All The Ipad Early Adopters

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Perhaps this post should be more accurately titled - “a message to all the iPad early adopters who are now complaining”. My message - It serves you f*cking r...

A Child Of The Star Wars Generation

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I was born in 1973, which made me four years old when Star Wars arrived at the cinema in 1977. It was quite possibly the first movie I went to see, and predi...

Drawing A Line Through Past Writing

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While attempting to catch up on the increasingly worrisome mountain of unread blogs that cast a dark shadow over much of my online presence, I read something...