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Think, before you react to what you see on the news.

Quite a few years ago now, I was part of an online triathlon forum called slowtwitch.com. It was an, ahem, interesting place, relatively early in the development of internet forums, full of an incredibly disparate group of people around the … Continue reading

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, and one last thing. Rip Steve.

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can … Continue reading

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Brilliant quote.

One of the blogs I follow is by a remarkable young lady, named Jill Homer, living up in Alaska who’s feats of endurance cycling make my triathlon exploits seem like sunday afternoon outings. She has cycled the course of the … Continue reading

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Steve Jobs: "Whole Earth Catalog was Like Google in Paperback, But 35 Years Earlier"

This isn’t new, but I just ran across it the other day and it seemed relevant and interesting, especially where he says the Whole Earth Catalog (1967) was “…like Google in paperback”: Steve Jobs’ Stanford commencement speech in 2005. Following … Continue reading

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glastoq

Well after 3 days of setup, the festival opened. Our section, I have to admit, looks great and we’ve received a whole load of compliments on what we built. We had glorious sunshine until yesterday when the heavens didn’t so … Continue reading

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The rain in spain….

Isn’t falling on me 🙂 I’m up in the hills about an hour outside Seville, at a wonderful retreat called Trasierra. I’m working for in-spa.co.uk as one of their massage therapists in the sunshine. It’s glorious weather here and doing … Continue reading

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I am now a 'professional' blogger!

Ok, so I’m not getting paid for it (yet), but it’s proper writing for a real technology blog. techwinter.com Basically I get to write whatever I like that interests me on the subject of technology, with a focus on mobile … Continue reading

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Obligatory hello world post

Here I am again, with a new blog and a few ideas for posts to put up. Eventually this will get transferred over to my main website, but until that’s sorted out I’ll leave it hosted here. Feel free to … Continue reading

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