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Wrestling With Privacy Concerns

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I have wondered increasingly frequently over the last year or two if to write a blog at all any more - or at least if to write a “personal” blog. Thoughts su...

Tired And Cranky

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The day started with me being first out of bed (as per usual), before heading downstairs in my robe to wash up two sink fulls of cups, plates, and god knows ...

Is Livejournal About To Die

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While reading the tech news this morning, it appears that the team running LiveJournal has made 20 of it’s 28 staff redundant. It looks like the beginning of...

Self Portrait 5Th January

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Taken this evening after getting in from work, washing up a mountain of dishes, putting all the kids through the bath, putting them to bed, reading their sto...

Back At Work

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This morning I find myself back at my desk, in the office of my employer for the first time in many months - with no immediate prospect of leaving the office...

Finding Five Minutes

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I’m hiding in the study for five minutes - and using the time somewhat productively to splurge various throughts through the keyboard into the interwebs.

Somebody Stop The World

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It’s Saturday morning, and I’m knackered. I’ve been up since 7:30, and all I did so far was wash up, and clean the kitchen up.

Happy New Year

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It’s 2009! Just handed the phone over with my parents - now talking to W. Just wanted to wish everybody who reads a happy new year.

2008 A Year In Pictures

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I just skimmed through the many hundreds of photographs we took this year to pull out a few that I don’t mind sharing with the world at large - click on the ...

The Year Of The Netbook

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I have been thinking back through the various technology news stories, gadgets, and industry events that have occurred in 2008 - trying to make sense of what...