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Category Archive: Life

Book Review: Lonely Planet’s Instant Expert

“Lonely Planet’s Instant Expert. A Visual Guide to the Skills You’ve Always Wanted.” by Nigel Holmes Lonely Planet […]

January 28, 2015 General, Life, Technology

Not Lance Armstrong

Two years after Lance Armstrong finally admitted to having systematically and for many years cheated by doping, he […]

January 28, 2015 General, Life

The 3 hour working week

How long is your working week? According to press reports, UK workers average 42 hours or more; according […]

January 27, 2015 General, Life, Technology

No accounting for governments

Why are governments so obsessed with spending, budgets, and accounts? Most have taken to frequent announcements of intended […]

January 27, 2015 General, Life

Final word counts

Switching from print to blog is a big step. Not only have I lost my editor, or rather […]

January 26, 2015 General, Language, Life, Technology

Wrong of way

When you last walked a footpath (in the UK), do you remember its number? Yesterday, when walking up […]

January 26, 2015 General, Life

Why is your forecast ten degrees out?

Like many armchair and amateur meteorologists, I like comparing my expectations with those of the professionals. Just recently, […]

January 23, 2015 General, Life

What’s in a name?

Wednesday, things started to go downhill.* It should have been straightforward: take my Dad (86 and fiercely independent) […]

January 23, 2015 General, Life

Peugeot 3008 – a car for all seasons

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Life has a strange sense of timing. Just a few hours before it was announced that MacUser was dead, I took delivery of a new Peugeot 3008. In retrospect, even if I had known of this imminent loss of income before I ordered the car, I think I would have still gone ahead. Now I am driving it, I am certain that I would.

January 20, 2015 Life, Technology

Authors of their own destruction

It is a popular myth that the Guillotine was invented by Monsieur Guillotin, and that he later succumbed […]

January 20, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

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