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Manyana

One thing of that you come to realise as you go through life is that there is this belief that there is always ‘manyana’, tomorrow. This is seen most prominently in procrastinators and the levels at which this appears varies in the individual. The reality is that putting something off until tomorrow invariably ends up [...]

Downtime is good!

In the world of IT downtime is bad. It is a term that is used to describe the amount of time that an IT system, be it a sever or workstation, is in a non- functioning state which in turn causes a user or users to not be able to work in a constructive fashion. [...]

I have been a little quiet of late due to some heavy work commitments which have been keeping me very busy. This is something I feel a little guilty for as it has meant that I have had to neglect some of my social media and blogging activities which are some of the things that [...]

Outside it is really foggy and has been throughout today and yesterday, so much so that the MetOffice has described it as ‘Dense Fog’. Quite apt really as that’s the way I have been feeling for the last couple of weeks. We went away earlier this month for some well earned R & R and [...]

Vick vaporub

I took Tom to the doctors today as he’s had a real cough this last week and been spiking quite high temp’s.  While Nurofen is keeping his temperature in check he was getting no better so it was a trip to the doctors. After being checked out he said that what Tom had was viral [...]

Change is the only constant

“If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten” – Anthony Robbins I first heard this quote from a good friend of mine Neil Harvey from resQ Management Resources, it’s a favourite saying of his as it reflects what he does for businesses all over the country. He specialises in Lean [...]

Motivation

What get’s you going in the morning? This morning I was up at a little after 6am and got myself ready to go out running. When I got downstairs and looked out of the front window the ground was thick with frost, I knew this before I got downstairs but this was proof. So I [...]

Lessons learned

As I sat on the grass verge at the side of the A46 at the edge of Newark on Trent I thought of the last 12 hours and how it had ended in defeat for me. For those that know me I don’t take defeat well especially when I have so much passion for what [...]

Your help please…

 At the start of this year I decided, in a moment of insanity, that I would set myself a challenge to cycle from home here in Ilkeston to Skegness on the East coast of England and then back again in 1 day. All in this is around 185 miles of cycling which will be between [...]

As with the rest of the ‘sheep’ I was keen to get the new Apple IOS4 installed on my phone as soon as it came out on Monday this week. It took almost 3 hours for the whole process to complete on my iPhone 3G but never the less I plodded on. At the end [...]

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