Category: Personal Development

  • Moving reflections

    So the house move is done and we’re now nicely ensconced in our new place, in the same Wokingham neighbourhood about a quarter mile from our old place. We did the move ourselves rather than hire professional movers. That saved…

  • No need for speed

    I’ve been thinking about speeding lately. Rather, the consequences of speeding. In April, I was snapped by this speed camera in London doing 34mph in a 30mph limit. I didn’t realize it until a notice of intended prosecution arrived in…

  • Baseball for dummies

    A definite highlight of my trip to Chicago last week was a visit to Wrigley Field to see a baseball game. My first ever such visit took me to the home of the Chicago Cubs to see them play the…

  • Quit smoking with Twitter

    Or more precisely, with Qwitter, a neat idea from TobaccoFreeFlorida, an advocacy group in that US state dedicated to raising awareness of health and other issues related to smoking. Note I didn’t say this group is anti smoking. It is,…

  • My week in media

    A meme started doing the rounds among some mainstream media types last August on what some people do and read online. I hadn’t seen it until a post by Drew Benvie included me among those he tagged. So in the…