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...
View ArticlePast, 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...
View ArticleResume 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.
View ArticleBorn 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...
View ArticleMy 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...
View ArticleNotes 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...
View ArticleMore 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...
View ArticleBig 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...
View Article42
Moving to England ... blah blah ... Gentleman of Leisure ... blah blah ... fat camp ... East Enders ... poison frogs ... um ... that's it.
View ArticleBack 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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