NeonBlue Dreams
Living on the edge looking in - the random ramblings of a geek girl

Over at The Pickards JackP’s picked up on the idea of a six word memoir, as mentioned on Stephen Lang’s site.
Always up for a challenge, I thought I’d give it a shot. Summing up your life, your achievements, your outlook, thoughts, hopes and desires in only six words?
A number of quotes from some of my [...]

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A few days ago Gill over at JBVoices posted a blog entry about a graphic she’d happened upon on the web, showing a pie chart of a time breakdown for modern web design which had amused her greatly. It amused me too.

For those requiring a text version of the image, the breakdown reads thus:
2% - [...]

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(my mind, that is)
There I was this morning updating fields on the management system at work (an exercise in frustration, as updating two simple fields requires going through numerous views to get to the edit button- grrr!), filling in missing data from some customer satisfaction surveys at work, when one of the customer comments in [...]

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For as long as I can remember I’ve been on a cocktail of different drugs. A bit like Alice in Wonderland, one makes me big, another makes me small. Amongst them, one sends me off to sleep, another stops the painful muscle spasms that contort my muscles, yet another stops pain signals travelling along my [...]

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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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Well I’ve always liked to think that I am useful in some small way (my mother always says she’ll find a use for me one of these days ), and so when I one of my forum members posted a link to what looks like an interesting waste of a few minutes, I just [...]

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JackP over at The Pickards posted recently about this PepsiCo ad, made by a group called enAble, deaf members of the PepsiCo workforce.

The ad was shown during a commercial break at the Superbowl, and what I love about it is that it not only is it an excellent example of a company utilising the skills [...]

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I’ve been tagged - whatever that might mean…
Is it a game of tag where the one tagged is now “it” and races around the playground madly, looking for someone else to tag? Sort of, but with blogs - and it’s like tag on steroids because you have to tag 6 people. Phew! That’s a lot [...]

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If it’s good enough for Prince, or “The Artist Formerly Know As”, or whatever he’s calling himself these days, then it’s good enough for me.
I use a variety of different avatars in various places across the web, some match whatever name I go by in that particular establishment (I have a variety of names [...]

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People live inside my head. No, seriously, they do! Come back! Don’t back away from the keyboard as though I’m some crazy woman! (though I probably am)
For as long as I can remember I’ve had the urge to write. When I was nine, my headteacher at junior school, Mr Keating, had an accident. He had [...]

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