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The One Percent Exercise

• April 26, 2024

At a recent off-site we ran a simple group exercise that will hopefully make a big difference to the success of the company

The Cuckoo's Klein Bottle

• April 12, 2024

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

Missing images

• April 10, 2024

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 displaying on this blog.

8 minutes

• April 9, 2024

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

The Keeper Test

• April 5, 2024

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 article that aligned nicely with one of the steps in our process.

Emotions as beach balls

• March 5, 2024

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 “Mr Holland’s Opus” has me in floods of tears every time.

Ambiphone

• January 8, 2024

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

One Life

• January 5, 2024

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!

Pushing The Limits

• January 4, 2024

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 numerous developers around the world in different flavours.

The straw that broke the camel's back

• January 3, 2024

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