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Eamonn's Home: January 2006
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The decline of a 50-something in London, in bite-sized daily installments. Sunday, January 29, 2006. A Man for All Seasons. We went to see A Man for All Seasons. With Martin Shaw last night with my parents, who are visiting from the U.S. It was excellent. I only dimly remember the film and never saw it on stage before, but my father watched the play in the early 1960s, with Paul Scofield, and he enjoyed this production as well. If you get a chance, catch it before it closes on April 1st. Yes, I'd give th...
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Eamonn's Home: Free software
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The decline of a 50-something in London, in bite-sized daily installments. Sunday, October 22, 2006. As I'm considering what I'm going to do with the second half of my life (see previous post. Software used to work more like science, back when the commercial value was thought to lay purely with the hardware. Software (in source code form, so that you could see how it worked) was freely distributed and shared. It was when the tide was turning toward closed, commercial software that Richard Stallma...That ...
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Eamonn's Home: April 2006
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The decline of a 50-something in London, in bite-sized daily installments. Tuesday, April 18, 2006. I read an essay a few months ago in which the writer advocated spending a day alone, once a year, with no distractions but your own thoughts. It sounds attractive, especially after the past few, non-stop months, but for me it would be like forcing a couch potato run the marathon. I'd be in no better shape afterward, assuming I survived. That doesn't mean I can't. It's an ongoing struggle. Is the norm today...
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Eamonn's Home: Child Prodigies
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The decline of a 50-something in London, in bite-sized daily installments. Friday, October 13, 2006. I worry too much about my kids. I forget what I was like as a child - hopeless at school and socially awkward. Yet today, although I'm no Nobel Prize winner, I get by. Ironically, I'm making my living doing precisely what I most struggled with as a student. I learned to write years later than my peers, but ended up employed for the past 20 years doing just that. One of my favorite writers, Malcolm Gladwell.
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Eamonn's Home: August 2006
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The decline of a 50-something in London, in bite-sized daily installments. Thursday, August 31, 2006. A life well lived. Life comes in waves of weddings, baptisms and, finally, funerals. They're our periodic reminders of what life is about. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. A life well lived. A Tree in the Forest. Ted Leung on the air. The Law West of Ealing Broadway. Education/Technology - Tim Lauer. This is a Flickr badge showing public photos from Eamonn Sullivan.
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Eamonn's Home: October 2006
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The decline of a 50-something in London, in bite-sized daily installments. Sunday, October 29, 2006. Baroque Cycle and Change. Since I've already marked myself out as a hopeless nerd (see Free Software. I may as well also admit that I love science fiction. I've just finished Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle trilogy. It's not for the faint of heart. Each volume - Quicksilver. And The System of the World. We're also living in interesting times now: We have all of the world's knowledge at our fingertips....
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Eamonn's Home: Goals
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The decline of a 50-something in London, in bite-sized daily installments. Saturday, October 21, 2006. I was reading a blog post. The other day by Scott Adams, the creator of the Dilbert comic. He advocates using what pop-psychologists and self-help gurus call affirmations. He writes down his goals 15 times a day and says it has an almost a magical effect. So what would I write down, assuming (and this is a big if) I'd have the patience and the self discipline to do it several times a day? Doing that....
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Eamonn's Home: Baroque Cycle and Change
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The decline of a 50-something in London, in bite-sized daily installments. Sunday, October 29, 2006. Baroque Cycle and Change. Since I've already marked myself out as a hopeless nerd (see Free Software. I may as well also admit that I love science fiction. I've just finished Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle trilogy. It's not for the faint of heart. Each volume - Quicksilver. And The System of the World. We're also living in interesting times now: We have all of the world's knowledge at our fingertips....
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Eamonn's Home: June 2006
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The decline of a 50-something in London, in bite-sized daily installments. Tuesday, June 27, 2006. It's the name of Second Life. That put me off. I don't have time for my first life, let alone another one. But if something doesn't grab me initially, it's usually because I don't know enough about it. And there's no doubt that this is the future, or something very like it. I need to learn more. My avatar is vaguely a copy of me, albeit thinner and with better hair - no imagination! I haven't progressed far...
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Eamonn's Home: November 2005
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The decline of a 50-something in London, in bite-sized daily installments. Sunday, November 27, 2005. Links to this post. Friday, November 18, 2005. How to Wake Me Up. The right thing because the garbage was spread all over the kitchen in an even layer of stinking slime. The evidence suggests that he rolled in it. That got me up. Sleep and I have a strained relationship anyway, so five hours is about par. No, he's not very bright. Links to this post. Monday, November 14, 2005. Links to this post. We walk...
