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Seduced By The Nintendo Ds

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Finally, after watching my other half play on hers for several years, I have succumbed to temptation. It happened while wandering around Gamestation in Maide...

Computers Take Over My Life

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Several things happened this week, each of which has more or less dictated the next; W’s old laptop died. Perhaps “died” is the wrong word. Her laptop - whic...

I Want One Of These

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I keep wandering into shops in London at lunchtime, and seeing Nintendo DS Lites for sale, and thinking what a great idea they would be to carry with me on t...

Stephen Fry And Anger About Hiv

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For the last hour I have been watching a wonderful documentary on the BBC following Stephen Fry as he discovers the various personal stories of people with H...

Contemporary Dance In London

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While wandering back towards Liverpool Street from Moorgate this lunchtime, I came across a street performer…

Blog Friday Different

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The word this week at BlogFriday is “Different”. While searching through the various junk in the corners of my mind that might fit against “different”, I wan...

Going Live

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Yesterday evening I stayed late to help fire-fight in the go-live of the project I have been working on for the last six months. I finally found myself wande...

Breakfast At Tiffanys

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Inbetween perusing the internet (which Leo Laporte quite wonderfully described as a “drinking from the firehose” recently), I have been watching “Breakfast a...

An Awfully Big Adventure

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After spending the best part of the last two years climbing a seemingly never ending hill towards a very abstract goal - “being allowed to adopt children”, w...

Approved To Adopt Children

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After two years of soul searching, reading, studying, attending courses, and having every nook and cranny of our professional, social and personal lives inve...