25 Years Of Planning

25 Years Of Planning… I was watching the news yesterday about the “Rosetta” mission – a robotic probe landing on a comet 300 million miles away from earth. It’s an amazing achievement and took 25 years to plan and execute, apparently. The probe was launched more than 10 years ago on 2nd March 2004, estimated […]

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A really scary story for halloween

When I was a kid we didn’t have trick or treat. We didn’t really have Halloween at all – we might watch a scary movie – that finished by 1am when the TV went off at a weekend. Yes – I AM that old. Now here’s a really scary story for Halloween… There is nothing […]

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Google Glass

Google glass is a type of technology that you wear like a pair of glasses which displays information in a hands free format, and what’s cooler than technology that you can wear, huh? So basically: a computer on your face. It is currently only available to developers and certain groups of people, and the release […]

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Hearing vs Listening

Hearing vs Listening… Hearing and listening aren’t the same thing. What do you mean, Tom, you may ask? Listening skills are important in business… Actually, scratch that: IN LIFE. Yet there are still so many of us who fail to listen properly. (Myself included.) Hearing occurs with or without your consent… Like that aggravating mutt […]

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Making the best of a bad situation

A valuable life skill: making the best of a bad situation. I am a Social Media apprentice. Being an apprentice involves completing an NVQ course for college (which equals two A levels, if you were wondering.) For most people this means going into college once a week or once every two weeks to complete work […]

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