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Why is society so divided?

When I arrived home last night I did the quick round of goodnight kisses and tuckins for the kids before I retired downstairs to have some dinner and unwind after a days work. As most of you would also do, I’m guessing, I flicked on the TV to see what was on so I could […]

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Just say “McDonalds”

Today I came across Jordan Moore’s tweet about a patent he came across… The patent itself is System for converting television commercials into interactive networked video games and looks scary as F. I can see that as soon as you yell out “McDonalds” your Google Home, Nest, Ring, Alexa, Cortana, and Siri will race to […]

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Game 17 – Abingdon

We had a solid win today against the mid table Abingdon 3’s. Winning the toss we elected to bat first in a 45 over win/lose game. Batting number 3 I managed to find the middle of the bat early but was caught out at point chasing a wide delivery from the first ball of a […]

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One post every day

Writing is hard. It is especially hard when you have to do it consistantly. The thing is that I love writing. I love telling stories. I love explaining things (whether it’s through written word or voiced, and whether or not you want to hear it). When it comes to a blank page though it’s difficult […]

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Google AMP tightens its grip

Owen Williams covers off all the current problems with AMP, the main one being that Google are continuing to systematically taking more control over the content on the web. By all means, make the web a faster place, but reward sites that are doing it on their own without using Google’s proprietary markup and servers […]

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Work

Ant Middleton 24 Hour Live Challenge

This week I’m going to be jumping on a train and heading up to the beautiful Lake District in the UK where I’ll be participating in the Ant Middleton 24 Hour Live Challenge. Fortunately for everyone, and especially me, I’m not actually taking part in the challenge itself as a contender, but instead I’ll be […]

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Does a private video on Vimeo allow you to embed it?

The answer will be revealed below…. AA – Ant Middleton – ‘Very Soon’ – Ready For Anything Adventure film from TMP Worldwide UK on Vimeo.

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Number two pictures

Not that kind of number two, ewwww. I left my phone with our number two child who wanted to look through the photos. Later in the day I was happy to find that she’d began taking her own pictures.

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Work Writing

New Mac Book Pro

Today I had my work machine upgraded from a Dell laptop to the MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2018, Four Thunderbolt 3 Ports) running Mojave 10.14.5 with the touch bar. I have heard a lot of bad things about this laptop when compared against the current personal laptop I have, and late 2013 Mac Book Pro. So […]

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Recce

The Tmp recce. The base Patchy 3G connection 4×4 course 3G coverage about 50% Able to stream live to instagram Possibly not the most exciting start Possible drone footage The lake great 3G connection Access to FTP for updates. Good stream to instagram Live stream worked well Abseiling Wonderful location Zero signal, no chance of […]