Photographs, reflections, and notes from my learning journey.
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John Pilger – The War on Democracy
A special screening and Q&A session with John Pilger at the Clapham Picturehouse cinema. http://www.johnpilger.com The War on Democracy was very thought provoking. Pilger covered huge political events from the…
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Frankie
Lucy and I have bought a cat! Yep. His name is Frankie, and he’s a jet black moggy. Some heartless people in Frankie’s past left him without home or love,…
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New hardware – eeepc
I write sated, after another successful Sunday roast. Itunes is making it’s way through a playlist of Christmas classics, and I feel rather at peace with the world. It has…
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Furious
The moment we’ve all been waiting for? It seems to be official – there will be a fourth Fast and Furious movie! A little backstory… Any of you who know…
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An Update!
Yes, I’m aware a blog should be updated more regularly than this. Last night the family (Mum, Amy, Georgie and myself) spent the afternoon and evening in London. Very enjoyable…
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Excellent study into potential benefits of regular glucosamine supplementation, with broad range of confounding covariates considered. TLDR: take glucosamine!
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Everybody I have spoken to with direct experience of Amazon’s corporate culture is impressed with the level of productivity it unlocks.
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The author has only anecdotal support for his assertion, but I have the same experience: “Configuration bugs are a disturbingly large portion of engineering decisions which cause outages”
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Disappointed to come back to SketchUp after several years to find it costs hundreds of dollars to use on my desktop?!
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Reddit is awesome – check out this response to my query about the translation of some Japanese text on a garment I have
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Having often intuitively leaned towards a “version control” mental paradigm for spreadsheets, documents, designs, photos, etc. this project is super interesting – version control for everything
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Some important reflections on the culture of geography in the tech community from Maggie Appleton here.