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Thinking of Sydney

Sydney Aldridge, my grandfather’s brother, that is. He was born in Islington, London in 1896 as the first child of Samuel and Jessie. Samuel had moved from Froxfield in Wiltshire to London sometime...

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Past, Present and Future

Yesterday my “Big Four-Oh” passed without incident or existentialist angst, and with much food, drink, presents and hugs from the kids — an excessive amount of the latter, I feel. The two presents that...

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Resume Stuff

Quick question: Do you think it presumptious/irritating/unprofessional to title one’s resume “Oracle Data Warehousing Guru” on job boards? Or is it instead an example of eye-catching marketing? Discuss.

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Born Again Virgin(ian)

Some weeks ago, at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, I submerged into a world of long freeways, gas stations, fast food, good and bad hotels, and a couple of timezone changes. I...

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My Last Day of Freedom/Boredom

After a little hiatus from work of a few weeks that saw me through the process of moving and getting the kids settled in new schols etc. I am now enjoying my last day of freedom as an unemployed person...

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Notes From a Commuter

So here I sit at Union Station, the very image of the modern urban professional, drinking Starbucxks coffee and tapping away at a keyboard until it’s time to hop on the little shuttle bus to XM. It...

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More Commuting Notes

What an extraordinarily interesting day, and what an interesting place XM is to work at … not that I did much real work today. A lot of paperwork and meeting people and reading documentation, but by...

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Big News … round here, anyway

So it turns out that the proposed merger between XM Satellite Radio (my employer) and Sirius Satellite Radio was just approved by the Department of Justice. Just the FCC to go now. Interesting times...

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Moving to England ... blah blah ... Gentleman of Leisure ... blah blah ... fat camp ... East Enders ... poison frogs ... um ... that's it.

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Back in the Saddle

Well, I have been called out of my blessed retirement and cajoled into working for a living again. Rats. Just as I was getting used to life as a Country Gentleman of Leisure. It was all so unexpected...

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