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It's easy to remember things differently when you look back on them. It's easy to romanticise something, or to apply a negative emotion to it when hindsight or regret has its way. Bad things can be overlooked in favour of some fleeting happy memory. Wonderful things can be turned sour, despite meaning the wor… Read more »
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TODAY HE WAS Tommy. He'd done his research, dug out his uniform and bought his flowers. He was to call on her at midday and ask her to dance as they had sixty years earlier. And for that one afternoon, it wouldn't matter that he was dead. He stood by the door, using his reflection in the plate glass next to… Read more »
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Morning arrives with a scream, as it does most week days. Despite the hour, I'm relieved to know it isn't mine, though after some of the dreams I've had lately, it wouldn't surprise me if it was. The scream comes from an alarm clock, but it sometimes takes my brain a few seconds to figure that out. It's the k… Read more »
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Regular users of social media will no doubt be aware of the many gimmicks employed to keep them coming back. Whether it's suggestions of things you might like, or fun, personalised content, it all amounts to the online equivalent of being told there are always sweets in the glovebox. The goal, of course, is t… Read more »
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In April 2016, my employer moved the office I work in from my home city of Coventry to the nearby town of Rugby. Over the course of a weekend, I swapped my usual two buses each way for a single train ride with a generous dose of exercise at either end. Having grown up, lived and worked in Coventry all my life… Read more »
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In the last year, I've done relatively little writing. Granted, I have perhaps rattled off somewhere in the region of a hundred thousand words across several minor, personal projects, none of which will ever see the light of day, but I've done next to nothing on my (hopefully) more commercial works. I have se… Read more »
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I've recently rebuilt a friend's website for her. It's a site I originally built back in 2010, based on the Joomla content management system, which had been recommended by another friend some years earlier. The website worked and did what it needed to, but I never loved it, in part because I wasn't enamoured… Read more »
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We've run out of developers. That's it. There are none left. They're all gone. Those that still exist are hiding under the rock of steady employment, not wanting to venture out in case their object references end up not being set to an instance of an object. (I made a developer joke in the hope of luring one… Read more »
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The following is a short story I wrote a while ago. It was originally intended as a submission for an anthology on the theme of the uncomfortable nature of technology, but as I was writing it the story took me off topic on a slightly darker tangent so I never sent it off. Since it's sat in a folder ever since… Read more »
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I think it's fair to say that 2016 has, on the whole, been pretty rough. Even putting divisive politics aside, we've lost a lot of good people this year. We lose a lot of people every year, but 2016 seems somehow... more. Perhaps it's the calibre of those we've lost. That's not to say the people who died in a… Read more »