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End of year catch-up
Well, I’ve just realised I’ve managed to go almost the whole of December without posting anything, so, apart from a big “Merry Christmas!” to one and all, a quick catch-up on what’s been going on around here recently…what can I say expect the past few weeks have been crazy since I went back to work [...]
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Dancing to the rhythm of a new .beat?
I think I’m probably behind the times on this one (just a tad, considering it was invented in 1998!). One of the small bits of slightly useless trivia I’ve learned on one of the current Open University courses I’m doing (T175) is that in 1998, the Swiss watch makers, Swatch, re-invented time, in the form [...]
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Getting back down to it
For the past few weeks I’ve been very side-tracked by my health, managing my forum and trying to mount a takeover bid to rule the world or something like that, holding online meetings which with an average length of three hours have somewhat sapped what little physical strength I have, chilling out and reading, getting [...]
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OU dilemma
The past week or so I’ve been doing not a lot of pretty much everything. Other problems with arms and hands and fingers not working properly have curtailed my typing, and I’ve been mainly reading. I haven’t touched any of my OU stuff since the other week when both assignments for both courses were due [...]
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Learning journal
As part of the T175: Networked Living Open University course I’m currently doing, we’re supposed to keep a learning journal detailing from what I can gather, what we’ve been learning and notes and such like, and action points and lessons for the future and what our goals and targets are. They even helpfully provide an [...]
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Feeling kinda…
…like sh*t at the moment. My brain’s having one of those “off” days when all the pings are bad and if someone ran a tracecert on my thought processes at the moment they’d be looking at response times in the order of minutes rather than milliseconds.
When my pressure’s high I have these weird kind of [...]
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