Everyone else is doing it so…
Almost every day I have to commute on New Zealand’s state highway with a at a speed that never reaches the maximum open road speed, and now that speed is […]
Supporting The News
A couple of weeks ago I subscribed to our local newspaper, the Otago Daily Times (ODT). Ever since I left home back in the early 90’s, I had a newspaper […]
Spark Sport Experience
With only a few weeks to go before the Rugby World Cup there is increasing interest in Spark Sport, the streaming platform to be used to deliver the games to […]
Getting After the Jocko Podcast
I had a rough idea of what to expect when I first listened to episode one of the Jocko Podcast at November 2017 having been introduced to Jocko Willink on […]
I would have been a terrible plumber
Somewhere there is a photo of when I was born where my father had painted “And Son” on the end of “Lloyd Hopgood, Plumber” which was on the side of […]
Everyone (in IT) Should Do Helpdesk
“Have you called them?” “Um, No…” “Well, give them a call, find out what’s really happening and sort it out.” It doesn’t matter where you end up in IT, having […]
Change for the Year Ahead
2019 has recently kicked off and as usual there has been talk of New Year’s Resolutions. I didn’t set any resolutions as when I’d done that in the past they […]
Happy International Volunteer Day
I wish I had started sooner. A close friend of mine started volunteering as a flag marshal at Highlands Motorsport Park almost as soon as that excellent facility opened March […]
Getting Some Headspace
Meditation. Mindfulness Until a couple of years ago I had not even considered those words. I just wasn’t really convinced that meditation was useful. It didn’t help that there were […]
Freedom
We need to value freedom and remember the price paid by so many so we can have freedom.
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