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Wendys Birthday Random Photos

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a few of the many photos I took at W’s party, while dividing myself between roles of organiser, host, financier, friend, husband, dad, mental dancer, and tir...

When Sysadmins Ruled The Earth

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I discovered “When SysAdmins Ruled the Earth” while looking at the ePub digital document format last year. I was commuting into and out of London each day, a...

A Moleskine Comes To An End

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This is the friendly Moleskine notebook that has travelled with me over the last couple of years, being filled with all manner of idiotic ideas, opinions, th...

Tori Amos And The Soundtrack Of My Life

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I discovered her one morning in 1991 while watching breakfast television. She was there during the hundreds of hours spent commuting to and from London. She ...

Looking Forward To My Old Macbook

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After I’ve booked the old Macbook in for service, it will be mine once more. It is covered by three years Apple Care (which cost a small fortune, but looks l...

Wendys Birthday

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In celebrations normally reserved for the Queen, W is having two celebrations this year - the first (today) on her actual birthday, and the second next weeke...

Very Very Tired

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Today started at 5:40am, in order to get kids lunches ready, breakfast ready, clear the kitchen, and then get ready for work before leaving at 7am. I didn’t ...

Little Broken Camera

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We took the kids to the woods at the weekend, and in the face of continual moon faced complaints about never being allowed to do anything from our eight year...

72 Hours Offline

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The wheels fell off our broadband connection at home a couple of days ago in spectacular style, and it’s starting to feel like somebody has cut my air supply...