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Shit my neighbours have complained about
That’s it. I’m going to keep quiet no longer and I’m finally going to write about… the shit my neighbours have complained about. For context, there are 3 neighbours in this discussion, which I’m going to give nicknames… Opposite Unsurprisingly, they live opposite us. They’ve been really good since we moved here around 10 years…
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The one thing you need to know about diets
I wrote some time ago about the fact that I’d been on a diet. I lost a crazy (but not unhealthy) amount of weight and been steady around a specific weight now for over a year. Whilst reading about a co-worker asking about diets, I stopped myself from replying to them – the thing is,…
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The Amazon Alexa outage that hardly any-one noticed
Or rather “only I seemed to notice”. I use my various Alexa’s for various purposes but they’re primarily used for playing the radio. Whether it’s Absolute 70s in the kitchen (yes, I am that old) or LBC in my office, they’re great. But on Wednesday that stopped working and, with nobody else reporting the same…
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Turn it off and back on again? What nature can teach us
It’s the biggest stereotype of the IT industry, but we all do it: turning something off and on to resolve a problem. And if it’s not that, we’re clearing caches and other things that may cure an immediate issue, but by doing it and therefore not resolving the root cause, we’re potentially creating bigger problems…
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It’s David, not Dave. Why using a name correctly is more important than you may think
As you know, I’m David Artiss. And David is the name I prefer to be called – not Dave. Growing up, my best friend was also a David. And everyone called him Dave, so it was a way of differentiating us. It didn’t help that we looked similar too. I don’t mind if people do call…