This is a personal post – if you’re looking for something technical feel free to move along I wrote a post recently complaining of writers block. I wrote the post as a way of giving me a kick. It didn’t have the desired effect in the way I hoped it would but it did get
Category: Personal
Tony Sale–Thank You-RIP
It was my birthday on Saturday and in true geek style I decided the perfect way to spend my day would be to pay a visit to Bletchley Park. This blog post was intended to be all about my visit but unfortunately I heard some bad news this morning so that’s on hold. Tony Sale
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Weight Loss For Geeks
Last time I talked about my recovery from my knee surgery I mentioned I thought I’d gained about a stone in weight. Losing weight is never something I’ve really had to worry about before. Despite having a predominantly desk based job for most of my working life my weight has always stayed pretty constant. Growing
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What do you do about writers block?
Genuine question! My last post on here was June 22nd and the last one before that was May 23rd. I had gotten into a nice rhythm with posting after wanting to be a bit more consistent in 2011. However, at the end of May I was writing up a book review and had a really
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My Knee–the end is in sight!
My one and only blog post specifically about my knee was on 17th February 2010. I’d intentionally not talked about it all that much here as I try to stay around a techie theme (not always successfully) and didn’t want this to turn into a knee rehab blog. It’s been hard enough for me to
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My Geekmas 2010
In an attempt to get back into the blogging habit I’m writing posts as soon as I have a few minutes to fill so this is a little “off topic”. I’m also experimenting with the Amazon associates program so if you like any of the things detailed below please click the links if you fancy
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A date with charity
How about 365 of them? Last year my sister-in-law Hannah spent the summer in Newquay. She fell in love with the place and had such a great time she went back for new years eve. As is usual for just about everything there is a Facebook fan page for Newquay. They ran a photo competition
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2010 has been a year of….
Challenges Right from the beginning of the year there has been a lot to deal with. My wife Bryony had her operation over the Christmas of 2009 with the recovery and switch on happening in the January of 2010. Unfortunately the operation didn’t work out as expected. While from a clinical perspective the operation went
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Is it really October already?
I’ve just noticed I haven’t posted anything on here in just over a month. I really had no idea it had been that long! Everything has been very crazy recently for a ton of reasons. The main one being I’ve just moved house. The last few months have been some of the most stressful I’ve
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My impending operation
A little off topic…… On the 20th September I posted this as my Facebook status Turns out I was right Some five months later I actually found out what I’d done Anyone who knows me also knows that playing football is one of my biggest passions and it’s taken a couple of days for it
