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The origins of Space Invaders
When I was at school they had a building which was mainly for the use of those doing their O Levels (the old name for what is now GCSE examinations). There were only two reasons I would get to go to the building: one was for music lessons as for some reason the music department was located there. The second was to attend the weekly youth night they held for each year group.
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Finding your dads work in a museum
It is an interesting experience to find the work your dad did being exhibited in a museum.
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The seagull data centre algorithm
Could studying the habits of seagulls lead to better cloud computing approaches?
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The first pictures from space
It turns out the first pictures taken from space were not initially planned.
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Numbers for managing teams
Sometimes you come across an article that makes you think. The article, Numbers To Know For Managing Software Teams, made me do that.
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Annual life review
I recently had the scenario where I had to use up a few days holiday before they would expire. I decided to hire and cottage and go walking. Unfortunately due to a stomach bug this didn’t go quite as planned however the other aim was to conduct a life review and assess what I wanted to achieve over the coming year.
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Free learning list
The freelearninglist.org website identifies the best education resources for each type of platform.
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Picking ideas
I have a file with 400+ ideas for businesses, products, books, etc. So finding ideas is relatively easy. However validating and picking ideas is more of a challenge.
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Decide who decides
As many of my posts start, I was listening to a podcast. This was a startup founder who was talking about the company she started with a partner and how they handled decisions where the two of them didn’t agree about something.
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