Mid-life crises (mlc) should be enjoyed as often as possible. How many of us that aren’t suicide bombers have any real notion of how long we’re going to live? Or, if you’re a cup is half empty-ist, how soon we are going to die? Mastery of the art of crisis can leave the prepared student […]
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While there’s nothing particularly wrong with Stoke, in a mediocre Northern English city kind of way, there’s also nothing particularly right with it. I spent a week consulting for MSW Technology, and would rather have spent the time in solitary confinement. With bamboo growing through my feet. I was still at the age where I
After dodging work for 5 years at universities, choosing the longest courses I could find without getting sucked onto the arcane path to becoming a professor, I spent all my savings on a one-man Sahara crossing by motorbike. It was like a personal Paris-Dakar rally, only without the pace, press or people. The name of
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