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In many countries around the world, the football season is drawing to a close, and as I bask in the reflected glory of my hometown team Coventry City’s glorious return to the English Premier League (and look forward with trepidation to...
Harvey Pressman is President of the Central Coast Children’s Foundation. He has been Technology Editor of Exceptional Parent Magazine, a board member, of the Alliance for Technology Access, an Education and History Professor, and former...
See those little round plants? The flat ones? They’re ferns. Ferns! Did you even know ferns came like that? Not a frond in sight? Little flat discs? Well, they do! They grow in many, many wet places in Japan, often among the wee mosses...
I recently watched the 2023 movie Anatomy of a Fall. I thought it was an excellent mystery / crime drama show, and really enjoyed the great acting and intense plot. If you like slow burn movies with lots of cerebral tension then I...
This post is part of the Game Boy series (#10). In my last post, I wrote about how retroachievements.org works, and I am currently creating achievement for the GameBoy game Turok: Battle of the Bionosaurs. When I started out, I couldn't...
I came across this video a few months ago, and didn’t get around to featuring it but it stuck in my mind. Or, rather, the story of Charles Paige did. He was well-known in and around Birmingham (the one in the UK, not the one in Alabama)...
When the board itself becomes the obstacle to clear thinking, no governance code can save the company. On groupthink, pluralistic ignorance, and the difference between directors who serve the company and those who merely sit on its board.
John Wyver writes: We are en vacances, having driven during three days from London to the small town of Simiane-la-Rotonde in the middle of the beautiful but rather remote landscapes of the Luberon. (Before the envy kicks in too hard,...
Previous run note: March 2026 April summary 30 days: 21 days running, 9 days off. 164.25 km. Target: 180 to 200 km. Average of 7.82 km per run / 5.48 km per day. Average of 38.3 km per week. Year to date: 545.29 km. Week km
Psst. If your boss won’t invest in training you in Specification By Example (BDD, ATDD), I’m running out-of-hours workshops on May 12 and 16 specifically for self-funding learners. £99 + UK VAT. After more than 3 years of research and...