It is a truism that you learn by failing. I recently bought a pair of clip in shoes for my bicycle. Everybody told me I would fall over once, they were right, it happened when I came to a stop at some traffic lights at the head of a queue of cars (very embarrassing). At […]
Technophobic
In 1997 the IBM computer Deep Blue beat the world chess champion Garry Kasparov. This was a revelation, perhaps one of the greatest moments in information technologies’ history. IT was the future and we would all come to rely on it. Well we do, we can’t seem to get anything done nowadays without having a […]
Spies Like Us
I have reached that age when for Christmas I am given socks, chocolates and paperbacks. I am half way through this year’s crop of paperbacks and found this quote in a John le Carre novel. “A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world” I learnt the same lesson working in a […]
If a Job’s Worth Doing
It is worth doing well. God alone knows what the neighbours think. Happy Christmas
Christmas Wishes?
I was sent this, by my friend Scott. It is funny, in a very sad sort of way. It demonstrates quite nicely how we can absolutely miss the point of what we are doing and get completely side tracked. I wanted to send some sort of Festive greeting to my friends and family, but it […]