Archive for the ‘General’ Category
Saturday, October 17th, 2009
During the following period, I have taken up exercising again, walking to
work and on some days walking back, rewarding myself with a pint or two at the local pub when accomplished prior to arrival home. In the early part of the period, I tried to reinforce my talk and motivate ...
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Saturday, October 17th, 2009
One Sunday morning after a particular heavy Friday and a light, by my standards Saturday, I got up and went to 'work', hung-over. That's where my family though I was going and I did go to the office, to get away from everything. I took with me a dictation machine, ...
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Saturday, October 17th, 2009
They say that to form a habit or to break one, you need to follow a routine for 21 days. Where do they get this stuff, I don't know? But habits, by their vary nature, are things we do consistently and to break them obviously must not do consistently. The ...
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Saturday, October 17th, 2009
Many years ago when I started this blog, I started it as a way to keep track of what I was doing to improve was a rapidly deteriorating life style. I was drinking and smoking way too much and it seemed like I could not stop the downward spiral. I ...
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Friday, September 11th, 2009
There have been many times in my life that I have been told by various people, even those who claim to be Christians, that I am too kind and too empathetic. That I allow people to take advantage of my weakness and that it will end in tears. To be ...
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Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
Article I wrote in response to a debate about work and live is posted here http://www.notthenews.net/index.php/2009/08/25/ah_ze_lazy_french. See what you think.
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
On the train to work yesterday morning I noticed graffiti stating simply 'Zulu 1875'. Intrigued, a Google search later at work revealed a lot of Zulu references to the period around 1875. Notably though, the Anglo Zulu war is officially regarded as being during 1879, some 6 years after Cetshwayo ...
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Friday, May 1st, 2009
I tend to use the word karma to describe the calm, peaceful balance. Something that disturbs this state is said to be upsetting my karma. I recently decided to look it up the proper meaning of the word and am horrified to discover that it doesn't mean anything like that ...
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Thursday, April 16th, 2009
This is typical me. I can't believe it been over a month since I wrote in this blog, totally unacceptable! The release of the 1911 Census data took me back to a project I started over 3 years ago and overtaken by events (see Ellis Families of West Riding Yorkshire). ...
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Thursday, February 12th, 2009
Saturday was my birthday and I didn't do much in the way of celebrations, in fact I didn't really feel in a celebratory mood. For some reason I woke up with the image of a blue sky, my children laughing and splashing in a clear blue sea, a white sandy ...
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Monday, February 2nd, 2009
News story doing the rounds today about how parents' ambitions in today's society are damaging their children's well being - see http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/feb/02/children-wellbeing-success for example. Now, this is not the first time that this sort of discussion has come up and I think it is good that it is debated but ...
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Saturday, January 31st, 2009
"How I invest and spend may touch the lives of people in distant places, whose names I'll never know, whose hopes I never think about,"
There has been some debate in scientific circles about what motivates humans to co-operate. Suggestions from the selfish gene – looking after number one - through ...
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Saturday, January 24th, 2009
Scenario: It is 2015, the world is recovering from one of the last great recession but Europe and the USA are not doing so well. So many people were laid off in those years and countries led by China and Asia but including African and South American countries picked up ...
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Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
When someone does not deliver to expectations, there is a perception of failure - even if the results are still quite spectacular. President Obama is in danger of being in this category with many people. I suspect there are some, many in Africa, that do not expect too much! I ...
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Monday, January 5th, 2009
Well this is it, 2009 before we could even catch our breaths, everything's back to normal.
Have you made any resolutions? I have, but not because I think that one year turning into another will make it any different, just that it does provide a good excuse to try harder at ...
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