Lately, I’ve been reading a lot of these Gen Y blogs. I seem to be particularly interested if they have a strong entrepreneurial/start-up thread. This is even though I suspect I’m outside the Gen Y age-bracket, and despite the fact that, for the time being at least, I’ve shelved the idea of starting my own [...]
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Tag Archive: Lifestyle
4 Secrets of A Surveillance Society: The Power of Inconvenience
I’m quite enjoying this low-profile, under-the-radar-living thread. I started to think about the ways that low-profile lives are monitored and restricted. Here’s a few:
1. Packing-plastic.
You need to have a credit card, even when you don’t need one. When travelling in the UK/Australia anyway, almost any accomodation requires a credit card. Even when you turn up [...]
How To Live Under-the-Radar
Over at Code Name Insight, there have been a couple of interesting posts recently (see links here and here) about how to live a ‘low profile’ life, below the government’s or other authorities’ radars.
This is pretty radical stuff, if it’s something you’re setting out to do. And quite honestly, if that is something you want [...]
Bring On The Next Adventure
Having so recently had my knuckles rapped for being all talk, no action… Here we go folks! I am taking action, and I am outta here.
Already left the job last week (emotional moment at the time, distant memory already). Most of my stuff left this afternoon (thank you to the kindly family members who had [...]
Would Just One ‘Great Escape’ Be Enough For You?
A conversation with an occasional reader the other day, put me in my place. “What you write is all very good,” he said. (Oh shucks, thanks…).
“But when are you actually going to do something about it?”
Oh. Ummm… Is it enough to say that I’m trying? ‘Very trying’ would be the droll response to that one. [...]
Fat or Manic? You Decide
There are some great bits of terminology evolving out there, amongst the people who think hard about the world as we know it. Some examples are:
The Joyless Economy
The Overwork Culture
The Hyperactive Workplace
The Manic Society
The Wage-Slave System
These terms are great. They make neat and emotive short-hand for long, complicated concepts and arguments. I have slipped into [...]
Do We Sabotage Our Own Dreams?
I came back from my travels last year, excited. I’d had a glorious year of running and travel – a combination that rocked my world. I couldn’t wait to get stuck in to doing more of the same in my home country. Have you seen what Scotland looks like?! We may not get the weather, [...]
What Happens Between Jobs?
I am ‘between jobs’ at the moment (though it’ll not be for long, it has to be said). I can feel my internal gears crunching. It’s that shift, away from being externally directed by all the requirements dictated by a job – what time to get up, what to wear, how to travel, be there [...]
Why This High?
Wow, I’m on a high this morning. Up before dawn as usual for my morning run, and, with no shame about being cheesy as hell, I ‘ran like the wind.’ Beat that if you can before 6am on a Monday.
Got the laundry done, got some housework done, pulled together a ‘to do’ list, browsed all [...]
Cake Is A Political Issue. Honest.
This post is not just about cake. But a lot of it is.
The other week, I was having a party, and I decided to make a cake. It’s been a while since I’ve done such a thing, so out came the recipe books. “Using an electric hand whisk, whisk together the butter and sugar until [...]
