After chatting to a few pupils who weren’t altogether happy with their careers advice. I thought I’d share this we tip that I actually had never thought of. I’ve mostly been  quite successful at interviews but often was stumped by what to ask at the end, having moved on from my early interviews when...
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My winning tweet: “@artwiculate refreshing page to see if you can cheat at artwiculate really is a boondoggle“ So I’ve finally won the Twitter word game of the moment. The winning tweet is on the right, it had to include the word of the Boondoggle: (n) : a waste of time and/or money; a...
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After setting and completing a few fitness goals (100k cycle & two triathlons) over the summer and losing about 33pounds along the way, I’ve been taking it easy over the months of September. Very easy in fact, since the last Triathlon and up to today I’ve only done 1 swim,  no runs and a...
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A few years back I tried to switch my blog over to WordPress but I got complaints that it ran too slowly. Lately I’ve been testing it again for work as I feel it would work great as a newsletter style interface. Nicely there are also people out the doing great work to make...
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Yesterday saw mine & Mark’s second Triathlon and Dave’s first as we took on the Quarryman Triathlon in Co Meath. 750m swim in a quarry, 25Km on hilly roads and three laps that formed a 5Km run with a heart busting hill. It was far harder than the last Triathlon I did with the...
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Back in mid June when I was 16stone and had lost about 8pounds from watching what I was eating and cycling a bit Mark suggested doing a Triathlon in September. 12weeks sweet that should be enough time to train. Then about 3weeks ago Mark suggests we do The Heritage Triathlon because it has a...
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