The Archives
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01.07.088 Things…My friend, Andrew Boyd, tagged me with the "8 things you didn't know about me" task a little while back and this is the first opportunity I've had to tackle it. So here you go - my eight things. I'm about to pitch a book idea. Fingers crossed! More about that if it progresses. Alli and I do respite foster care for Barnardos. This means the we spend one weekend a month caring for two young children (brother and sister) who have been with us for nearly three years now. Their parents are recovering drug addicts and have ...
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06.05.06Our deepest fear…Last night, Alli and I watched Coach Carter, a "true life" film about a high school basketball team from a socioeconomically depressed area winning through and making more of themselves. Ken Carter, the coach of the team is an inspiring man, and like most films in the sports genre, this film is about achievement against the odds and defeating the hand life has dealt you.However, the most striking moment of the film for me was the speech given by player Timo Cruz, when he paraphrased a poem by Marianne Williamson:Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest ...
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05.26.06Purple patchI've always been a fan of late-60's and 70's British rock - Deep Purple, The Who, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Cream, Blackmore's Rainbow, that sort of thing. How stoked do you think I was to hear the soundtrack to School of Rock?Anyhow, to get to the point. The past few days, my 8??-year-old daughter has been wandering around the house humming a riff to herself that I hadn't picked up on until last night, about half-an-hour before her bedtime. She's humming the main guitar riff to Smoke on the Water! I had to ask her where she'd heard it. ...
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04.25.06Caring for your introvertThis article, despite some of the bitchiness which creeps in (I think it's tongue-in-cheek), is a frighteningly accurate description of me. Knowing some of the other developer/geek folks I know, it's a pretty close picture of them too. Have a read. Is it you?SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Caring for your introvert", url: "http://www.acidlabs.org/2006/04/25/caring-for-your-introvert/" });
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04.13.06Extending the nerdiness memeIt's doing the rounds among CFers, so here's me: SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Extending the nerdiness meme", url: "http://www.acidlabs.org/2006/04/13/extending-the-nerdiness-meme/" });
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