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I’m old enough to have learned COBOL at university, although that was the mid 90’s and says more an about the university than my age. It was good fun and interesting, so if you hav…

You don’t happen to remember the name of an Amiga game where you navigated a little robot around via CCTV while avoiding security guards, in order to break into a safe?

A lot of great suggestions here. My two additions would be starting weekly one-on-ones or if you are already doing them, using them to roll out changes individually with each contr…

I might be late to the party but I think if you watched BlackBerry you’d like the Tetris movie too. It’s a bit silly but in a good way.

203.21.30.124 and .125 were the IPs of the DNS servers for the ISP I worked at in the late 1990s So many hours talking customers through DNS settings on the help desk.

https://mrjamesbell.com is my blog. It’s the first personal website I’ve ever felt happy about. Every so often I’ll get inspired and write a post but I have quite a few ideas in dr…

Beat me to it for some NZ perspective, but while we’re here, I was introduced to Jean-Michel Jarre at one of the first Laser Tag places in NZ in the late 80s. I can’t remember what…

Curious about micro coaching - can you explain a bit more about how this works?

My father was originally from Manchester and there is a good chance he borrowed heavily.

It’s interesting to find this out!

My Dad was an avid sci fi reader, I feel this is probably where he borrowed from :)

The one thing stopping me doing this is finding my own domain name that I want to use for email. You’d think with the number of domain names I own I’d have one I liked

Every once in a while I go through an “I want a website” phase and try something new, but always end up back with Wordpress. Ultimately I wanted to write content and play around wi…

Interesting to hear this exists. I’ve got a lot of knowledge about job seeking (through years of coaching and recruitment) that I want to share but wasn’t sure how much interest th…

I enjoy the same sense of accomplishment as I did running a BBS or installing Linux (and getting the modem driver to work) back in the day.

I genuinely thought instantdomainsearch had been consumed by GoDaddy

Its a little off-topic, but my dad passed away last year and left behind a collection of about 40 slide rules. Aside from his personal slide rule from university and his first job …

My mum died in January and my Dad died a couple of weeks ago. We didn’t do much for Christmas as a family but I keep thinking of the interesting things to tell my Dad about that he…

I really enjoyed visiting the United Nations building in New York. The tour was interesting and if they weren't in session they too you into the various meeting rooms.

The manager-tools.com podcast is excellent for things like this. Start with the Professional Subordination one: https://www.manager-tools.com/2010/12/professional-subordina...

Nah, its not common. She's a "cool" science communicator complete with pink hair to appeal to the kids. (That's not to undermine her at all, she's fantastic.)

ok so this is helpful because I'm planning on starting a blog and want to use it to document some of the cool things I've done in the past. Would you (as a reader) prefer my trip t…

To be honest I stopped reading after the initial focus on writing vs having a chat with someone. Maybe that works for some organisations but I'd much rather my team talk through a …