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You’ve been extremely generous, and we’ve passed £1000 in quick time. Amazing what the web makes possible.

We sleep rough on Friday. The weather forecast for Friday is not that brilliant, so this year we’re really going to be earning our Saturday morning tea and butties. Can I implore you to keep it up, and keep [...]

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I’ve been following Camilo Villegas’ golf game for about a year now; he’s been the subject of no less than five posts since June 2008; during that time, he’s made two top 10 finishes in majors (including a top 4), won two tournaments in a row (including the TOUR championship last week) and just missed [...]

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Love it or hate it, we work in a profession that has been kind to its participants over the years. Kind in terms of challenges and learning, kind in the context of personal development and career progression, kind when it comes to earnings and security. Of course, there have been peaks and troughs, redundancies and [...]

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Saw this over at John M Willis’s blog:

I couldn’t help but smile. It reminded me of something I heard nearly thirty years ago, when I worked at Burroughs Corporation. One of our customers, Smiths Industries, had a mainframe that was finally ready for that great computer graveyard in the sky. Nobody had really expected that [...]

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We are not far from a time when we will order maps like we order pizza. Confused? Bear with me, humour me for a bit.
Ordnance Survey maps have always been rich in information:

What is shown above is a very UK-centric view, with the Ordnance Survey example. I’m sure there are equally good examples all over [...]

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Following on from comments on my last post, and at least in some part influenced by what I’d had bouncing around my head when I wrote this in 2006 (to do with Gresham’s Law and information), I’d like to spend a little time thinking about news as a commons, its damage and its repair.
If we [...]

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My brother pinged me about this story today: To Infinity and Beyond. It’s about a 12-year-old autistic boy and his father carried out to sea and triumphing over the elements in miraculous ways. It’s a feel-good story. I happened to read it early this morning, before I went to work, and for sure I felt [...]

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Golf aficionados amongst you have now been hearing me extol Camilo Villegas for some time now, the healthiest “product” ever to come out of Medellin. He’s just won his first PGA title a few minutes ago. You’re going to hear a lot more about him in the majors next year. He’s extraordinarily fit, he’s young [...]

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