13 Life Lessons

What has life taught you? I find at the very young age of 46 that I’m not as young as I once was but I’m not referring to physical age here but rather the fact that me being the age I am has...
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The Big C

On Saturday my brother in law and sister (Paul & Anne) arrive in the UK then on Sunday he enters hospital in prepartion for a 10hr operation on Tuesday. He has “pseudomyxoma peritonei”...
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Think Like da Vinci

Michael Gelb is the author of a book called “How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci” and in it he expands on the ‘seven steps to genius every day‘ … Now, I haven’t read...
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How to Pick a University

I originally posted this some time back and elsewhere as a reminder for myself and as an aid to other parents / students. I present it here, in a slightly edited format but in principle the ethos of the...
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My Top 5 Free Security Tools.

There is an incredible amount of free software on the internet and unfortunately a fair bit of it is likely to cause more problems than they purport to fix. So I was thinking what I could write about when...
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Geocaching

Yesterday the family and I went geocaching. Geocaching.com describes this as: Geocaching is a high-tech treasure hunting game played throughout the world by adventure seekers equipped with GPS...
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