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When I was at university, a long time ago, one of the books I really enjoyed was “The Cuckoo’s Egg” by …

I hadn’t updated my blog for a while so I thought I would write a short post about The Keeper Test. That is when all the images suddenly stopped …

Can a friend ask you for a chat when they really need one?

It is that time of year where performance and salaries are reviewed. In my new role it is the first time I have been part of this. I came across a very timely

Do you suppress your emotions?

I used to suppress my emotions a lot and I guess I still do in certain situations; I am getting better at letting them out. For example, watching the end of the film

When I am working and need to focus I like to have music in the background.

For the first time in ages we had a family night at the cinema to see the film “One Life”. It is unusual for my wife and I to agree on a film to watch, let alone the kids as well!

A lot of coding jobs can involve fairly “normal” tasks - create a page, write to and read from a database, add a new field to this screen. These tasks have been done numerous times by …

There is an idiom “the straw that broke the camel’s back” which, according to Wikipedia, describes

My dad is pretty tech-savvy (he was an electronic engineer) however he was having problems with how long it took his Windows PC to become usable.