My Life

Forty

September 12, 2010

There’s always a they and, in this case, they say life begins today. If that’s true then quite was the past forty years have been I have no idea. For some reason that I have yet to understand, turning forty is a point when people look back. They don’t do it so much at 39 and, I imagine, not so much at 41 either.

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Elsewhere: Jon Curnow Joins aiMatch as Director of Product

July 29, 2010

aiMatch announced today that Jon Curnow has joined the team as director of product. Jon will spearhead the company’s product development efforts to ensure its advertising intelligence solutions continue to meet the needs of publishers around the globe.

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Looking Back 10 Years

December 24, 2009

It’s not unknown for me to state the obvious, so here goes. This was/is that last working day before Christmas. And for many, including me, it was the last working day of the year. It has also dawned on me that it’s the last working day of the decade. I guess, therefore, that I’ll play the looking backwards game. You know, the one where we all try to find something interesting to say about the last year, or in the case, decade

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The 2007 Collection

January 2, 2008

Another New Year and time for the regular yearly review as seen through the pictures that I take on my mobile phone. At least this year I am posting the pictures at the very beginning of the year! This year’s mosaic features 7 rows (for 2007) of 5 pictures. The original idea was that pictures [...]

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36 For 06

August 21, 2007

I have been re-arranging and organising some of my photographs on the site today. In a bid to ease the effort it really would take to maintain this site I am moving all my online photographs to Flickr. I have been using Flickr for a number of years and my installation of Gallery on this [...]

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50 – 05

February 1, 2006

It’s that time of year again. I get to look back at last year based on the photographs stored on my mobile ‘phone camera. This year I had the Treo 600 and a Nokia 6230 to use but I didn’t seem to be a prolific as last year as I could only really find 50 [...]

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2004 In Pictures

January 7, 2005

I don’t think it’s such a bad idea to mark the passing of time. I am, ultimately, sentimental. So, although I am not going to write a great 2004, there is one thing that has fascinated me this year: some of the pictures of the year. In January 2004 I acquired Treo 600 mobile ‘phone. [...]

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Dawn Traders

February 13, 2004

At 5am there was queues at bus stops that must have had ten or more people in some of them. There were many more twenty-four hour shops than I had imagined (why isn’t there one near me?) and plenty of road sweepers and street cleaners – people generally keeping the city going for the rest of us that usually awake later in the morning.

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Summer Listening

August 24, 2003

I invested in a Pure Evoke 1 earlier this year and it has shaped my radio listening this summer.

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About Jon

July 14, 2003

There’s always an About Me page. This is one version of mine. I think it’s the original but some of my writings have been lost over the years. I know there is a more recent version but this is a mini biography which is quite nice, really.

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How do you say Happy Birthday in Russian?

July 27, 2002

And it’s my Dad’s birthday today. My mother is with him somewhere the former Soviet Union for five weeks while he tries to do some work so I was wondering how the locals might wish him Happy Birthday.

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Try the M11

July 21, 2002

You can see what this is about when I say, “eventually, the car is unloaded outside my house at 2.45am (with apologies to all my neighbour who would have been woken up by the noise)”. Obviously, I didn’t win a brad new car.

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In My Thoughts

July 2, 2002

My granddad was born on 1 July so it would have been his birthday yesterday. He died several years ago and I have to say that I miss him. I lit a candle at St Paul’s Cathedral on Sunday.

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Shopping Madness

June 22, 2002

So, you would rather give me my money back than work with me to arrange delivery. Isn’t that rather short-sighted. Why would I ever shop with you again?

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