From the monthly archives: January 2006

The delicate art of procrastination

On January 23 2006 · 4 Comments · In Diary

The thing with procrastinating is that your time still has to appear to be productive, where in fact your time procrastinating should be as unproductive as possible, or at least diverting you from more productive things. This blog entry for example is not being productive, other than as exercise for my writing muscles. [...]

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My Big Trip hits snooze

On January 23 2006 · Leave a Comment · In Diary, Travel

My Big Trip, my travel blog, is going dormant for a while. I can’t very well update it with travel experiences gained on the A12 to London, it just wouldn’t seem right. Anyway the final entry for a while is up there now, sounding a little like it should be narrated [...]

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The lonely whale

On January 21 2006 · Leave a Comment · In Diary

The Observer | UK News | After a day of frantic struggles, the London whale dies a lonely death

The whale was probably doomed from the point it entered the Thames Estuary – it wouldn’t have swum in towards London unless something was wrong. Put it down to disease, confusion or whatever you [...]

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Friday should be more satisfying

On January 20 2006 · Leave a Comment · In Diary

I’m thinking this blog will be a bit like the diary I kept several years ago when I was in a less than engaging job and my brain had spare energy I needed to get rid of. If I’m still posting quite as often in six months, I’ll be quite impressed [...]

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Freaky dreams and Flickeur

On January 19 2006 · 1 Comment · In Photography, Video

Last night I was watching Autopsy on Channel 4 – it’s a fascinating program, and the dissection of human cadavers is only one of the reasons why – there are also brilliant explanations and demonstrations of biological processes at work in the human body. I don’t [...]

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Quite new

On January 18 2006 · Leave a Comment · In Diary

I’ve updated this blog so it is now using the excellent WordPress platform – and it’s so clever it even allowed me to import my previous posts from the Blogger blog I was using before. Commenting is easier, and I have a lot more flexibility including categorisation of posts. My whole [...]

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