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 slog…
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 with…
...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…
A couple of weeks ago I came acrossthis article in the Guardian(not my normal read, but their online media pages are useful) referring to the publication by the Wikileaks organisationof an archive of…
I appreciate that this is likely to be one of those posts that will annoy some folks, but, here we go. A couple of days ago I was invited by two or three separate people to join Facebook Groups and si…
One of my 'guilty secret' films is the 1982 John Badham movie 'War Games', in which a teenager inadvertently starts the countdown to World War 3 by hacking in to a military computer system. He thinks …
...a thing as lovely as a tree, goes the poem. We've been blessed this year by squirrels in our garden. We live in a suburb of Sheffield with lots of trees which give a great playground for the squi…
I have a client in Harrogate who I visit every couple of weeks, travelling by train. I went up there a couple of days ago, and as I'd had a particularly hectic couple of days before hand was able to …
I was late in getting my Poppy this year - I didn't actually buy it until yesterday (Saturday) morning, when I purchased one from a gentleman in Hillsborough whilst on my Saturday morning Odyssey know…
In ancient Jewish society, the scapegoat was a normal goat that was ceremonially loaded with all the sins of the community, and then driven from town in to the wilderness, as part of the ceremonies ar…