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Easy Photoblogging with Flickr and WordPress

September 1, 2011

I used to have a Tumblr account which I used for off the cuff messages and photos. Tumblr is great but with each new service you sign up to, you further fracture your “life” stream. You put bits of content here, and other bits there. Sometimes there is overlap and sometimes there is not. I’ve [...]

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Good deed for the day

August 21, 2011

Good deed for the day: Debbie was driving around a roundabout towards traffic lights and saw a motorcyclist on the ground with the bike on it’s side. Realised it was a woman and she was struggling with the bike so I hopped out and picked the bike up. Bloody heavy bit of kit. I know [...]

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Waiting for Superman

August 17, 2011

I love watching my three year old play. One minute he’s Spider-man slinging web and jumping from building to building and the next minute he’s superman flying high. He believes he is doing these things and that he has super powers. So why do we allow time and experience to take these things from us [...]

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Cameron Speaks

August 9, 2011

But what is really interesting is his choice of words. My good friend and mentor Dominic Keohane has spoken with me at length about the choice of words people use can be more insightful than the words themselves. David Cameron: “This is criminality pure and simple and it has to be confronted and defeated.”“has to be” [...]

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London

August 9, 2011

September 1666 a careless baker set fire to London. 345 years later, mindless gangs are doing their best to burn the city to the ground. Are they disenfranchised? Gripped by desperation through economic and social factors? Nah. It’s because they can. I’m sure that a lot of these kids have it tough. Broken families, broken [...]

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The Hidden Music

August 8, 2011

My heart, sit only with thosewho know and understand you.Sit only under a treethat is full of blossoms.In the bazaar of herbs and potionsdon’t wander aimlesslyfind the shop with a potion that is sweetIf you don’t have a measurepeople will rob you in no time.You will take counterfeit coinsthinking they are real.Don’t fill your bowl [...]

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PHP Religions #1 – Buddhism

August 4, 2011

class Buddhism implements Reincarnation{ public function __construct() { return new Buddhism(); }} 

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Beatrix, age 2, carrying a cloth

July 27, 2011

kellyoxford: Beatrix: Washed all the windows in the front rooms. Me: Thanks. Beatrix: They are REALLY clean. I’m going to go upstairs to do the rest of them. Me: Bea, you’re kind of a big girl now. Beatrix: NO I’M NOT! I’m a baby Mom a LITTLE TINY BABY!!! Me: Whoa, sorry. Okay, you’re a [...]

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The Traveller

June 9, 2011

He rests contentedly in the long shadows cast by time. The sun has lowered considerably from the meridian of his youth; the prickly heat from the day stored deep within his bones. The seeds long since sewn have produced a glorious harvest that still sustains him. His eyes in the middle distance, his self in [...]

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May 25, 2011
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