Social media = Procrastination

I have been thinking for a while now what it would be like to not be on social media, how much more could I get done with my time. But.. I am suffering from the “fear of missing out” how much would I really miss if I took the plunge and deleted the apps from…

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Linux Gaining traction as a desktop solution

In a move that will save them 30 million euros Extramadura is replacing the governments computers with 40,000 linux based computers. This is the second largest public sector migration to Linux. Although Linux will never take the lead from Microsoft it is nice to see large scale migrations to Linux like this, it says something…

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Checking in

It’s been two months (to the day), I did say that I wasn’t going to have these long gaps and that using this blog I would start to be a bit more productive. But, as usual, my plans didn’t go off as they should. I flip from one thing to another getting nothing finished. I’m…

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Hobbies

I have many hobbies and like a typical Procrastinator I only ever seem to start them and not go far, this blog for instance is me trying to further a couple of these goals. Writing has been a dream of mine for as long as I can remember so to take things forward seems like…

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Google and the Pi

I often remark to my grown up kids (18,19) at the lack of skills with computers in their generation, when I was their age I was playing around in DOS and writing silly little programs in basic, that is the kind of thing that got me into wanting to work with computers. If the PC…

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Beginnings….

A couple of months ago I wrote down a quote, just something that I was inspired from something I heard of TV. “You cannot withstand the storm” “I am the storm” Tasia to Corwin at the battle of Terminus. Then last night I just started writing and before I knew it I have two sides…

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Winter is… here

It’s a few days until we barrel into December and my first winter with a Campervan. We have had a couple of stopovers in the van in the cold now and I can say I am very glad the Diesel heater was replaced with a good Autotherm one. Definitely makes a difference. It’s friday, although…

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Blog -1

Decided for the month of September I am going to blog on here, I know this is a day early but I wanted to get started. Today didn’t go as planned I was going to do some planning and I didn’t get up until 11am, first time I have had a lie in that late…

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