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Happy Birthday to Me!
Have you guessed what today is?It’s amazing, finally reaching the age of 26 (+20).CheersTim…PS. There’s another anniversary coming tomorrow. Update: Just noticed this on Google.read more
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Happy Birthday to oracle-base.com (sort-of)
Today is another anniversary, but this time it’s the website, which is 15 years old.OK. This is a bit of a cheat because:The website originally had a different name, so you could say the website with...
View ArticleLima to Cusco to Machu Picchu
With the tour over, Debra and I had arranged to spend a couple of days visiting Machu Picchu, before heading home.We woke up early on Friday to get a flight from Lima to Cusco. We arrived at the...
View ArticleMachu Picchu
At about 04:00 we were queuing for the bus ride to the base of Machu Picchu. I started to feel a bit ill again. A little after 05:00 we were on the bus driving up to the base of Machu Picchu. It took...
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Cusco to Lima
It was a 3:30 start, which after broken sleep and the events of the day before had me a little worried. We got a taxi to the airport in Cusco, which is the coldest airport I have ever experienced....
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Lima to Amsterdam
I left the hotel a little late, but the airport was literally across the road, so it was no big deal. Having a business class ticket meant I checked in immediately (+1) and even had time to hit the...
View ArticleMy Glamorous Life : Just so you don’t misunderstand…
If you’ve subscribed to my YouTube channel, you will have noticed me posting some videos with the title “My Glamorous Life : …“.I had several distinct plans for this trip:read more
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Site Maintenance (20th Sept 2015 22:00 GMT) : Update
Last night was the big server move. According to my monitoring, the site went down at approximately 23:30 GMT last night and was back again by 01:30 GMT this morning, so the site was offline for about...
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Owning Your Content
Another thing that came out of my conversation with Zahid Anwar at OOW15, was about owning your content.If your intention is to make a name for yourself in the community, it’s important you think about...
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Twitter : Is it a valuable community contribution? (Follow Up)
There was some pretty interesting feedback on yesterday’s post, so I thought I would mention it in a follow up post, so it doesn’t get lost in the wasteland of blog comments. Remember, I wasn’t saying...
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Happy New Year 2016!
Happy New Year to everyone! Yes, even you!I’m not big on new years resolutions, since I always end up breaking them on the first visit to the 24 hour Tesco store down the street! So in a similar vein...
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YouTube : 6 Months and 1000 Subscribers!
That’s right, it’s been a touch over 6 months and my YouTube channel has just hit the 1000 subscriber mark. This YouTube experience has been quite odd. My plan was to try and upload a video every...
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(Not So) Internal Dialogue
When I wrote about rehearsals in my public speaking tips series, I mentioned talking through small sections of the presentations as a means for rehearsals. I do this a lot! I live on my own, so this is...
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Annoying your user base never pays off!
This post is heavily inspired by the events of #RIPTwitter and the recent Fine Brothers fiasco, but it could apply to just about any company, product or person. When I say user base, I could easily...
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Problem Solving (Breaking Things Down)
Some people are great at problem solving, others not so much. The people I meet that are good at problem solving always have one very import skill, the ability to break stuff down into its constituent...
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Always write everything down!
In my second job we worked on projects in small teams, maybe 2-3 people. My boss at the time, the team leader, was a lady called Andrea. She wrote everything down. I mean everything! I was still pretty...
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Nothing you learn is ever wasted!
About 18 months ago I went on a couple of load balancer training courses at F5. It was over a year later that we actually got the things wired in and ready to go. I played with them for a couple of...
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Please be patient!
It’s extremely nice to have a big audience. It’s very flattering that people care enough about what I say to be bothered to read it. The problem with having a large audience is people can get a very...
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