December 2009

Is This The Best, Bad News?

23 December 2009

I’ve ummed and ahhed about posting this up, but this is my personal blog and somewhere along the line it feels right to use it to get my thoughts in order. Last Friday, I had some very bad news that brought home the fragility of life and made me question everything that I’m doing. To [...]

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Weekly Friday Fun Pictures

17 December 2009

Got some good pictures this week, rather than videos. This first actually happened to me, this week. This is a completely legit and un-doctored screenshot of an email I received. It’s a daily job alert I get, as I like to keep my eye on the market. The keyword for the job search was “Analyst“, [...]

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Have I wasted 2009?

15 December 2009

As we approach the end of 2009 I’m taken to pondering how I’ve spent this year and whether it’s been a good use of the reducing number of years I have left of life. As my daughter pointed out to me whilst out walking recently, at 37 I’ve most likely lived about half my life [...]

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Weekly Friday Fun Videos

10 December 2009

This is very cute: This is very clever: And this is very odd, but compelling nevertheless:

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Karting in Cardiff, Wales

7 December 2009

I had a great time last week with a team of 4 guys from work, at a team race at Team Sport Karting in Cardiff. It was a 2.5 hour team endurance race, with 10 teams in total and about 50 drivers. Of course my team won, which is because we were awesome and cos [...]

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Weekly Friday Fun Videos

4 December 2009

Found some great videos this week you’re really going to like. You don’t see this in fighting very often, in fact I think I’ve only ever seen something like this once before: WPvideo 1.10 This video I had to watch 3 times, I just couldn’t believe the other 2 presenters in the studio. The woman [...]

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Waking Up At 4 am

1 December 2009

I hate waking up at 4am! It’s early enough to be too early to get up, but late enough to have provided enough sleep to not be tired enough to get back to sleep. I am quite sure most people think that statement is barking mad, but waking up this early is not uncommon for [...]

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