Writing
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FutureFocus 2000 part two
It’s all over now, and it was exhausting. Although that was more to do with overly-long days…
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FutureFocus 2000 part one
Today was the first day of the World Future Society conference (or “FutureFocus 2000”…
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Back in the land of the free
I’ve returned to Houston for the rest of the year. It’s very strange to be somewhere so…
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Nothing much
This is not, by any stretch of the definition, daily. Really busy at the moment, and not much to…
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You have the power of wormholes
Last night, after the not-as-thrilling-as-it-once-was This Life we switched over to see Letterman.…
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Sun(SeaAndSand).com
While wealthy Silicon Valley tech stars spend their money and leisure time on fast cars and extreme…
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Fully connected with foray into network arena
I’ve been feeling so damned connected this year. Perhaps it’s because I was living so…
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You’re only young once or more
On Saturday two of my best friends were married after nearly ten years of coupledom. Is that a lot?…
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The end of the, erm, thingy
So I was reading this article at McSweeney’s, while our SQL server was rebooting, giving me…
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Not enough time to think of an original title
This networked life thing is fantastic, but it takes so long to just run my life these days. I feel…
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Hi
When I moved to suburban Houston last summer, the cynicism and grumpiness I had nurtured during…
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Back in Blighty
I’m now sat on the train from London to Braintree, a town at the end of a branch line off the…
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Clear Lake
Back in Houston for a few days, just enough time to wash clothes, shop, catch up on a few days of…
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Seattle
Things I didn’t do: visit Fremont or the University District; go on a ferry; get out of the…
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San Francisco
I’d forgotten how tastefully pretty the city is. Going to the same old stores was kind of…
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Sunnyvale
Endless sprawl and strip malls, just like “home” only different. Being driven…
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Santa Barbara
Sun, sea, people, blue skies, distant mountains. Bars, restaurants, shops, trees, cyclists,…
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School’s out for, etc.
No, I’ve really finished all my college work this time. And just in time to head off to the…
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Me, me, me
So, having almost emerged from my week or so of relentless work avoidance* I should be bursting…
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Priorities
I feel bad that I haven’t written in a while. I’ve entered the final two weeks of term…
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Dream a little dream
Do you ever dream about falling in love? An instant text-book case of looking into a…
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My new toy
I know, I owe this site some new words, and I’ve had a swirl of half-ideas drifting back and…
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The Dark Ages of Renaissance
But I had a headache, not quite a wincingly bad one but bad enough that I couldn’t face…
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There’s no here here
Every Friday I travel into downtown Houston to see a movie or two. Since selling my car a few weeks…
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Never falling
Three unsatisfactory analogies for how it feels to watch films like High Fidelity when you’ve…