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Electric Brompton Road Test

Posted on July 22, 2010

Background I’ve not regularly cycled since I left London 4 years ago. There I would commute circa 10 miles a day on my cheapy Raleigh hybrid. Since moving to our current house I tried my new commute

Buying Land with a Pension

Posted on September 3, 2011

Aerial view of our land, woods to the left Before I begin let's get the disclaimer out of the way: I'm not a financial advisor nor am I 'regulated by the Financial Services Authority' and your risk

Peak or no Peak?

Posted on July 4, 2012

I have not posted about peak oil for a long while, mainly because if people get it, they get it, and if they don't, or won't, then they are almost certainly not interested. Either way there's no point

UK Smart Meter Data Access and Privacy without the hype

Posted on July 5, 2012

There's been a fair bit of press recently on the privacy issues surrounding the UK's smart meter roll-out - currently in its foundation stage (figuring out how it's actually going to work) before the

Podcasting is hard

Posted on February 19, 2014

Image by Patrick Breitenbach You know how some people jump out of perfectly good airplanes, climb mountains or cuddle a tarantula to confront their fears? Well I launched a podcast to confront mine

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Project Management Pain

Posted on April 6, 2014

TL;DR - I can't find a tool that gives me high level scheduling overview AND individual finer detail on each project going through my little studio. Below I review a bunch of tools that don't fit my

JSDI

Posted on May 8, 2014

This article was originally posted on The Pastry Box in May 2014. Do you have an itch that you keep meaning to scratch? An idea that just won’t go away but life keeps getting in the way? As hard as

Are you failing?

Posted on May 17, 2014

Right now I reckon in some way you're failing at something. I know I am, but I'm Ok with it. Seriously. To succeed you need to have criteria to define the success by. I'm a bit uneasy with the term

B2C, are you sure?

Posted on September 28, 2014

For as long as I’ve been paying the rent by selling my skills in the web industry I’ve thought that I had a product in me. Back in the late 90’s I was a wannabe .com ‘founder’ working on terrible

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