Author: Paul B
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Same Difference
Once a year, my house gets invaded. I understand this might be the last time it happens. My wife likes to keep in touch with her friends. She has friends with a common interest, and they get invited round once a year for chin-wagging, story-swapping, drinks, food and fun. In this same timeframe, the kids…
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Hurrah for IT
Short one today – basically, thanks IT. Yes, I know, they can be a pain sometimes. However, my first day at work yesterday found a friendly and effective IT team setting me up with a user account and email account in under an hour – and, in my books, that’s quite good. I would have…
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The Pain of Knowing Too Much
Shoulder Pain – What Causes Shoulder Pain. Yeah, I’d quite like to know what causes it, but should I be looking on the Internet for that information? Does it benefit me, or turn me into a quivering hypochondriac? I’ve had the pain for more than a week now. I started experiencing it in the back…
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The TARDIS Revisited
When you see the reconstructed TARDIS for the first time in ‘The Eleventh Hour’, you hope for more. In the old days, we saw corridors, bedrooms, a reception, laboratory, garden… and the Cloister Room, of course. Now, the brevity of the episodes perhaps precludes the need to visit the rest of the TARDIS. I hoped…
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Deferring to Jefferson
I like it when I find a quote that really means something to me. Thomas Jefferson said – “Delay is preferable to error.” It’s quite possible you could sum up much of my character in that quote. Indeed, I get this very feature of my character picked up in personal development reviews year in, year…
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White Rabbit
What? White Rabbit, you wonder? Did he get another pet? No – he didn’t get another pet. That’s the provisional title of my Game Chef effort, which almost definitely won’t get completed by the 19/20th September deadline. While I enjoy reading games, and occasionally playing them too, I never seem to have enough time to…
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Who at Tesco
What are the chances of walking into Tesco and finding a Scarecrow, Ood, Cyberman, Silurian and a Clockwork Robot? Most days it’s probably quite unlikely. On this occasion though, a promotion for the Doctor Who LIVE event provided a chance to stand in a queue and have pictures taken with these very beasties. Alas, poor…
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Upgrade Agony
Spent a solid portion of Saturday lurking around mobile phone websites seeking out some kind of bargain. Any incentive to upgrade my phone would be nice, but I failed to find anything to tickle my fancy. O2, my current provider, hollers that it treats new and existing customer alike – presumably to offset the old complaints from…