Adding a booklist

Having spent yesterday grumping because the wordpress.com policy of no plugins meant I couldn’t add a book list to my sidebar, I stumbled acros a posting by Amyth called Adding LibraryThing Book list to WordPress.com blogs
Once I’d worked out that the way to add arbitrary code to my sidebar was to drag a ’Text 1′ widget in from the widgets menu  it was all very [...]

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Un-boxing Day

There is something about this time of year that renews my desire to simplify and just get rid of junk.
It is a feeling that starts before Christmas. The mutterings start when all the kids toys have to be shuffled from the various corners to make room for the festive paraphernalia. It grows while bruising and bashing [...]

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Low tech tracking

For a while now I’ve been thinking that there has to be an easier way to track stuff. And things.
Last week, while rereading the excellent “Agile Software Development with Scrum” by Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle, I started wondering just how simple and technology free I could make the process. So armed with a small [...]

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The memory of trees

We put up the Christmas tree yesterday
There is something special about unpacking all the  memories both personal and shared along with the decorations. Something fantastic and slightly magical about the ritual of putting them on display on the branches of a living tree. By the end of the afternoon. it felt like a primal diary or perhaps more like a totemic blog. [...]

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Here’s to you Mr Robinson …

Last night I found myself actually crying tears of frustration watching “Can Gerry Robinson Fix The NHS? –  One Year On“. 
Don’t get me wrong, there was much in the program to gladden the spirit.  Consultants and managers obviously were working together better. Lists were down, resources such as operating theaters  were being well used. There was [...]

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