In November I was still not in the mood for reading and so made my way through Hail Mary AGAIN and Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers

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I was tired in September, so I read the 7 books of the Murderbot Diaries. Again. There's something about a these which are absolute comfort reading for me. After enjoying Hardwired earlier in the year I picked up

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The absolute best thing about being able to hand over my Head of Software Engineering role to the wonderful Steve Newstead in favour of being a roving problem-solver (currently: incident management processes, procurement workflows, monitoring and alerting, line management coaching) has been the colossal amount of mental capacity it has freed up o...

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We are at 12 months since the first Coronavirus Lockdown in the UK. What an absolute joy. I have started reading Doomsday Book by Connie Willis on my Kindle. It is about pandemics. It is rattling along very nicely thank you (later addition: finished it! Really liked it). I have again been searching for a...

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Last weekend we had PIZZA and then a PARTY, it was great! Some very welcome relaxation very different to our normal merging of weekdays and weekends. On Sunday there was SNOW! We got out the sledges, and built snowmen, and frankly it was BLOODY BRILLIANT. More snow days please! Daylio tells me I unlocked a secret achievement last week: E...

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We are nearly at the Christmas holidays! Come on people, you can make it! We took our daughter to see Father Christmas making his way down a nearby road, on a sleigh being pulled by a tractor. We are in the west country, after all. As part of my “classics I’ve never read” series I am reading Little Women...

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It used to be that when I found an article that was too long to read there and then, I would add it to delicious, tag it as ‘readme’, and hope that one day I would get around to it. These days I just click my Kindlebility bookmarklet and read the article next time I’m on the bus or train, but...

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Any writing is better than no writing, so here are some things I’ve been thinking about and doing lately: I have a new camera – a simple Canon Ixus 100 to replace my old point and shoot which got dust in the lens. It has HDMI out for the 720p video it takes, face tracking, auto scene selection (such that if I point it at something close it switches into macro mode automatically), and is ...

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Andrea wants to be able to stalk my reading list. I use allconsuming.net to keep track of which books I’m reading, which ones I’ve completed, which are my favourites, and so on. When I start or finish a book I load up Firefox, select the Amazon search e...

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The Dick And Jane Reader For Advanced Students. Class.

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