Monthly Archives: January 2010

Saying goodbye

There is a saying that you can never really ever go home once you’ve left. This may or may not be true. When you consider that home is a tropical paradise of which people in tiny, cold, cubicles day dream, how can you think you can never go back? I left my home 8 years [...]

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Chasing the cheese

Airing your deepest thoughts on the Internet has never been particularly appealing to me. I like the concept of blogging, a journal that embraces technology and allows you to write. There are many people who can communicate much better by writing than by trying to express emotional issues verbally. The anonymity of being able to [...]

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Getting things done

The now iconic book Getting Things Done by David Allen, provides an excellent blueprint for, erm, getting things done. Some people seem to be able to work so efficiently that it is irritating while others struggle to accomplish one task. After struggling, like most people, I’ve come up with a very simple solution to my [...]

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News content of the future

While checking out the new Nexus One from Google I stumbled across this article from the TimesOnline. Even though the information on the phone was decent, I really liked the way there was both video and text content on the site. This is the way all online news sources should be, a perfect mix between [...]

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Optimism, the only way forward

Is the glass half full, or half empty? I say neither! The glass should ALWAYS BE FULL. All you have to do is imagine a smaller glass. Does this sound like a load of horse crap (or worse, bull crap)? There are too many people who are unhappy with life because they seem to be looking [...]

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