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It doesn't feel like I've had a holiday. It's been two weeks since I returned to work, so it's probably normal to feel that way now. But I didn't feel like I'd had a holiday by the end of it either. The office shut down for the last week of December and I had ten whole days to do as I pleased before I had to… Read more »
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I seem to spend a significant proportion of my waking life sitting in front of a computer. Five days a week I'll spend a little over seven hours in front of the computer I use at work—a machine I've come to call Deep Thought, after the computer in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, because it takes so long… Read more »
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Having noticed that Coventry's city centre hadn't had many holes in it for a while, the council recently decided to dig most of it up. The result is that navigating the city by any other means than on foot has become a bit of a challenge. Whole roads have effectively been rendered closed by the destruction of… Read more »
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There's something about this time of year that encourages in me an element of lethargy. Perhaps it's the sense of anticlimax that accompanies the season that makes me feel like I'm constantly waiting for something else to happen; not quite fully content by events to date. It's the waiting that makes me lethar… Read more »
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When I was a very young boy, I received a red, rubber ball as a present. The ball was, presumably, partly full of liquid, and when it rolled, it would stutter along the ground, occasionally changing direction, seemingly at random. As a child, it never occurred to me that such a thing might have water in it. I… Read more »
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This quote is attributed to Mahatma Gandhi; a man who in his lifetime achieved so much through his simple philosophy of Satyagraha—that of nonviolent resistance. Gandhi faced down incalculable odds to obtain such things as civil rights for Indians in South Africa and Swaraj for India. It does not take a "Gre… Read more »
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As I write this, I've not long arrived home from day one of a two day training session on the latest version of our company's CRM system. The organisation I've worked for since 2001 was acquired by a much larger organisation almost eighteen months ago and as of January this year was merged with two others lik… Read more »