A Bold Move At this beginning of this year, we took the decision to sell our house and move to the west of Ireland to be closer to my wife’s family. We were in a very fortunate position because our employers are not concerned where we physically are in the world as long…

I had high hopes of being a writer someday. However, as with everything else I seem to try, I get excited about it for a period of time. Intensely interested and then when it falls by the wayside. I used to think that it was because I realised that the…

I think that it is fair to say that all of that banging on about procrastination was getting a bit dull. I’m still thinking about it lots and have been spending my time usefully getting my website back up and running on my own server. It has been three years…

Reminders don’t work. The same goes for making lists. Lists don’t work. I have lost count of the number of reminders that I have clicked away in Outlook or on my iPhone. Some great examples in the embedded image. These were super important, look at all of the exclamation marks…

Has been about 24 hours since my last confession of procrastination. Since that time I have managed to turn the horrible 500 error that I had into a self-hosted Wordpress blog. Which is nice. However, there is no escaping that the whole thing was an exercise in not doing something…

It has been a long time since I chose to write a blog. There are many reasons for this but primarily I am fundamentally a lazy human. I was seduced by micro-blogging, by the idea of spouting out 140 characters or just re-tweeting something that someone else had written. …