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Last weekend our daughter started on the next part of her life journey. We dropped her off at Exeter University as she is about to embark on a four year adventure studying psychology.

We recently spent just under two weeks visiting Croatia and in particular the Istrian peninsular. These are my notes and thoughts from the holiday.

When interviewing a potential candidate recently I asked them the difference, in their opinion, between the way a consultant/contractor engages with a company and a full time employee.

In the Knowledge Project podcast with Adam Robinson there is an interesting observation about warnings.

When my daughter was at nursery I missed a show she was in. Unknown to me, she had the leading role and I missed it because of a work meeting.

I rely on RSS (Really Simple Syndication) to keep me up to speed on what is happening in the world.

I was fortunate enough to meet someone who dramatically changed my life but didn’t know it. And when I met them I didn’t even get the chance to speak to them or say thank you.

“A rite of passage is a ceremony or ritual of the passage which occurs when an individual leaves one group to enter another.”

I wonder if there are a group of people in companies that set the prices for their products that still like the concept of bartering? They seem to like the negotiations of trying to find the highest …

I recently had to try and explain to some non-technical colleagues how part of our system works. This involved giving them a very quick overview of public/private key cryptography. So I thought I …