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Solutions Design Specialist

Working across telecommunications and IT, it will be your responsibility to design and develop ground breaking managed service solutions for a number of large corporate clients. Does that sound interesting to you? Well, it does to me… I found out … Read more …

I’m depressed

(Something I wrote on 4th November 2004, which I thought I’d repost…) I’m depressed that George Bush won the US election. I’m depressed that he won not only the popular vote, but also the electoral vote. I’m depressed that the … Read more …

The wise man

People climb great mountains and go to great lengths to visit the wise man, so that he can help them with his amazing advice. He either points out to them something they already knew, or tells them that they already … Read more …

Articles are back to normal

I decided that I wasn’t able to sustain the conversational style of writing I was doing before. Trying to get a point across within a written conversation, while creative and interesting, made the articles far too long. I’ve gone back … Read more …

Heal yourself first

If you think that life is a result of your thoughts manifesting into reality in order to help you grow spiritually, then this article is for you. With your thoughts creating your reality, it’s easy for you to think that … Read more …

The new war that can’t be won

A very interesting article.  You should read it. So it turns out that Arabs—or more broadly Muslims—can fight after all. We may surmise that they now realize that fighting effectively requires that they do so on their own terms rather … Read more …

Being sick sucks

Since Wednesday last week, I’ve been sick as a dog, and have been off work since then. First I came down with flu symptoms, with everything aching, fever, chills… That went away by Thursday night, but that day I got … Read more …

No more anonymous users

Apologies to those that will be inconvenienced by this, but I’ve had a few abusive comments from anonymous users which I’ve deleted. As a result, I’ve decided to cancel the anonymous comment function. Anyone who wants to comment and isn’t … Read more …

Geisha’s collar

Last week we took Geisha in to the vet to get speyed. She wasn’t happy, as you’d expect! Because she’s such a manic kitten, hyperactive in a big way, she even surprised the vet. She’d just woken up from the … Read more …

More on connecting the dots

“I don’t really understand what you meant with that commentary you wrote, where you were talking about the dots.” Jake was scratching his head, looking at Alan’s blog on the computer screen. “What don’t you understand about it?” Alan asked, … Read more …

Think about the dots

Do you remember playing ‘join the dots’ when you were a kid?  You got a whole bunch of dots and then drew lines between them, resulting in a picture forming.  The dots are all over the place, and don’t mean … Read more …

Anndion Lodge, Wanganui

When we went to Wanganui, we stayed at this very cool backpackers – the Anndion Lodge, run by… Ann and Dion. 🙂 They don’t make them like they used to, that’s for sure. And it’s great that they don’t! Backpackers … Read more …