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What goes in to a blog?
I recently came across a couple of articles about blogging. Well, I’ll be honest – they were in my Twitter feed and I took a look at them to see what other people’s views were on the subject of content in blogs. It was sort of distressing to me – according to those particular authors
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When does a Jedi play a banjo?
Some years ago I worked for a large UK bank-assurer as a contract software developer. One project that I became involved with was to provide a bug tracking / change management system. As with all software systems, we decided to give it a ‘cool’ name and someone in the team suggested ‘Jedi’. After stifling an
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Will no one rid me….
On 29th December, 1170, four knights of King Henry 2nd killed Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, and thus created a martyr of a man who’s principles had forced him to behave in a manner that was anathema to his King and his one time friend. It’s usually accepted that the King hadn’t actually ordered this assassination,
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What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas? Not necessarily…
Long before it was the title of a movie, it was a fairly well known saying. In the UK it was more likely to be ‘What happens in Blackpool, stays in Blackpool’, or, as time passed, what happened in Estonia stays in Estonia. I was a mark of secrecy that was usually associated with the
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Thou shalt not steal…at least not from the corner shop.
Father Tim Jones, a parish priest from a Church in York, raised a bit of a rumpus recently by suggesting that if you were desperately needy it was OK to shoplift – at least form the larger stores, where the impact would be passed on ‘en masse’ to the rest of us by increased prices,
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Do No Evil – Ursula Le Guin, The Authors Guild and Google
During Google’s formative years, the company decided to come up withthe equivalent of a short mission / vision statement that summed up what it was to be Google. After some serious thinking, the slogan emerged. ‘Do No Evil’. Nice…although as someone pointed out – it really is just civilised good manners to do no evil.
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A sermon from Martin Luther King…still relevant today.
Dr. King first delivered this sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church, where he served as co-pastor. Peace on Earth… This Christmas season finds us a rather bewildered human race. We have neither peace within nor peace without. Everywhere paralyzing fears harrow people by day and haunt them by night. Our world is sick with war; everywhere
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A Merry Christmas to you all!
Business!” cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. “Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!” And so the ghost of Jacob Marley begins Ebeneezer Scrooge’s
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In the long run….
…we’re all dead, so goes the old joke. I’ve found myself thinking of ‘the long run’ increasingly often over the last year, and I’m not sure why. I think partially it’s due to having children around on a reasonably regular basis for the first time; I’ve found myself thinking more of the world that they
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7 Broadband Quickies….
I should actually call this post ‘things I should have known but thought I knew better!’ In recent weeks we’ve had a few ups and downs with the Broadband connection, culminating in a call to BT’s technical support line. Of course, when I did call them the line started behaving itself again during the call,