Year: 2011
-
Last FM Most Played Artists
Most played artists of the last 12 months, according to my Last FM profile. I had no idea I was such a big Cure fan… Read more
-
Rental Case
Last summer I was fortunate enough to be sent on a six-week trip to Europe, courtesy of the project I was working on. Well, I would have considered myself fortunate were it not for the facts that (1) this was Rotterdam – not known for being one of the beauty-capitals of the world, and (2) I spent almost every waking hour in a warehouse stacked to the rafters with automotive oil and other specialty lubricants (and not the fun kind, either…). I’d been over to Rotterdam a couple of times before, and had spent several years living in Brussels (one… Read more
-
Big In Colombia
Big In Colombia! Weblogs from this site show that the vast majority of my hits are from Colombia, closely followed by Russia. I’d like to think that that’s just my biggest fanbase, but realistically it’s just spammers and hackers. I knew Russia were big in that area, but Colombia? Maybe we’re finally winning the drug war, only to force them into a far more annoying occupation. Read more
-
Blowing Chunks
I was in a workshop on training recently, delivering a session on curriculum development for my new project. Typically, because I’d joined the project late (having been tied up on my previous project, which refused to free me up), the existing project team had tried to do this bottom-up, by deciding on what they were going to teach (by way of defining the learning objects to be developed) before deciding who they were going to train or what they needed to be taught. So I was now trying to retro-fit a more structured, classical approach to curriculum development onto what… Read more
-
Keep On Truckin’
A couple of weeks ago I was at Reliant Stadium for a football game. This weekend I was back at the same venue for an entirely different type of ‘sporting’ event – a monster truck rally. This is actually my fourth or fifth, but I hasten to add that it has always been for the benefit of the kids. Honest. The two boys have both been into monster trucks, but this time it was Freya who seemed most keen on going. Must be the Texan in her blood (she was born here…). Last time I was here we were bussed… Read more