Here are my thoughts and musings on a wide range of topics. Generally, the blog posts that are in this category contain my opinion.
I recently watched The Great Hack on Netflix, a documentary exploring the impact on Digital Rights of the recent scandals affecting the social media titans. I enjoyed the film and found it quite eye-opening in some ways. It confirmed my ambition to be Facebook free. Yet I also thought it… Read More »On Digital Rights and Societal Change: The Great Hack
Britain is Soon to Leave the EU Britain is set to come crashing out of the European Union (EU) in a matter of days or weeks. A friend asked me at the weekend what my opinion on Brexit was and I had to admit I didn’t have a clear answer.… Read More »On Brexit : Why Britain Leaving the EU is Bad
Learning to eat less Sugar the Hard Way I’ve always had a sweet tooth and now it’s come back to bite me. I am suffering for something that (despite my other half’s loving assurance to the contrary) is pretty much all my own fault – a deep filling in one… Read More »On the Evils of Sugar and Feeling Pain
Musical Messages on My Mind A short while ago I had a tune stuck in my head. It went something like whop-whop whop-ding, whop-whop whop-ding and had to be some kind of dance music, but I just couldn’t put a name to the tune or remember what the rest of… Read More »On Parenting : Changes, the Slow Day, and the Timer
My son was 100 days old on Friday. My Chinese in-laws dressed him up in gold bracelets and a red and gold chain necklace, for the first time in his short life he looked bling. It made me think of how we make not only all of the big decisions… Read More »Reflections on a more Responsible Life and using Trello
We all have an internal ranking system where we put the happenings in our lives into hierarchies of importance to us, which includes rating the profundity of certain events. Specific and circumstantial happenings come to determine how we structure the narratives we use to present ourselves to the world. They… Read More »Early Parenting and the Importance of Coincidences
The Start of a Young Family Today marked one calendar month since the birth of my firstborn son. It’s been a ride so far, up and down, peaks and troughs, a blur of broken sleep and an overload of chores. The first two weeks were certainly the most challenging –… Read More »Entering Parenthood and a New Mindfulness
Reductionist Quotes A couple of things have piqued my interest in the self-help industry recently and started me thinking of taking more care with my online content. One is that I have begun using my Twitter account a bit more frequently to promote my various digitally-based activities. Twitter is awash… Read More »Reductionist Quotes, Social Media and the Loneliness Survey
My last post was a reflective one and I’ve been thinking about other formative experiences I have had that set me on the course leading to where I am now. On a personal level, I am also probably seeking to reassure myself that I’ll make at least an ok parent.… Read More »Motivation for doing the Best for Ones Children
On rare occasions whilst driving around the UK, one sees lone people at the roadside, typically near service stations. They are identifiable as hitchhikers by their ragtag appearance, huge backpacks and cardboard placards, on which is usually scrawled a destination so far away as to think unreachable in any reasonable… Read More »My Thoughts on Hitching a Ride
Changes Afoot There are significant changes afoot in my life and I thought I would write a blog post to try and get a handle on where I am at mentally. I am not overly concerned that I cannot or will not be able to cope in the near future, I… Read More »Taking Stock of Changes : Where I am at in August 2018
A Confidence Trick The internet can be an unnerving and wicked entity, and I’m saying that without even having ventured onto the notorious Dark Web. A couple of weeks ago I paid the equivalent of five dollars to list my blog on a blog directory called Blogarama only to find… Read More »Confidence Trick : Trust and the Online Nemesis