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New Years Resolution for the CTO
The new year offers a chance to reset initiatives, but studies show 88% of resolutions fail due to overly ambitious goals. To combat this, tech leaders should adopt small and simple achievable resolutions.
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2024 in review
With the 1st of January now rolling us into 2025, it’s time for my annual review of the year that has just closed. Another beautiful sunny day here in Virginia, warm and blue skies as I sit down and reflect on some of the stats and journals I have maintained this year.
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Streamline Your Workflow with ChatGPT and Obsidian
ChatGPT has integrated into daily life, serving for research, output interpretation, and image generation. Users can copy interactions into Obsidian, a Markdown editor, to organize and retain information efficiently.
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Beasts of no Nation (2015)
I always knew coming to this movie was readily admitting you were willingly stepping into an emotional roller-coaster that was going to throw you around and have you screaming to get out, but you have to stay to the end. Netflix’s production of Idris Elba’s story of child soldiers in Africa did not disappoint. The African country is not named, but pick any of the current warring nations at the moment…
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The Angels’ Share (2012)
This was one of those movies that you would have had to seek out. It didn’t make the cinema and went straight to DVD release obscurity. Yet this, amusing Scottish comedy, about a young Glaswegian man who finds himself on just the wrong side of the law, escapes a prison sentence decides that he isn’t going to have his new born baby live the same life as he. So…
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Clear and Present Danger (1994)
The 3rd outing in the Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan series, sees Harrison Ford reprising the role for the second (and his last time). Ryan dealt with the Russians in the first one outing, under the sea with the Hunt for Red October and then we had him fighting the Irish in Patriot Games. Here we have him after the drug lords in Columbia after the Presidents close friend is murdered under suspicious…
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The Last Boy Scout (1991)
Bruce Willis after 2 Die Hard movies takes on another over-the-top action movie but this time as down and out detective, Joe, working in LA. He is hired to look after a stripper the girlfriend of ex LA football player, Jimmy Dix, played by Damon Wayans. She gets murdered and Jimmy and Joe team up in an unlikely pairing to track down the culprit only to uncover a world of corruption…
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Kelly’s Heroes (1970)
I honestly don’t know where to start with what is one of my all time favourites. For me that means a movie I can watch many times and still get something out of it and not be bored. The caper heist is always a wonderful genre to play with and gives a wonderful romantic view of the world of the master criminal. Be it Pink Panther, or as far as…
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Bridge of Spies (2015)
Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks are back to tell a true story from the 1950′s era when the cold war was at its height in America’s paranoia around the nuclear arms race and communism. A Russian spy, Rudolf Abel (Mark Rylance) is arrested by the FBI in New York and is interrogated but refuses to give up anything. He is a soldier caught in by the other side in a war and…
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School for Scoundrels (1960)
I am a sucker for old British black and white comedies. They reigned supreme from around 1945 to 1965 and gave us some classic actors such as Alec Guinness, Alistair Sim, Terry Thomas and Norman Wisdom. The story lines where woefully simple and one dimensional and served as a perfect remedy for a young boy, who is off school sick, lying on the couch and being forced to watch whatever…
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Back to the Future Part II (1989)
The date is 21st October 2015 and of course it is Back to the Future day. The day Doc and Marty travel forward to fix his children who have managed to screw things up that a little help from our time traveling duo. So it is very fitting that we watch this movie on this very iconic day, following on from my earlier Back to the Future outing. So…
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Shanghai Noon (2000)
Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson team up together in this comedy western to rescue the kidnapped Chinese princess played by the beautiful Lucy Liu. With Chan not knowing any English, or anything about the West is your classic fish out of water setup. Not dissimilar to the usual Crocodile Dundee story. Chan plays pretty much the exact same role in all these types of movies, the humble, karate/kung fu fighting side kick who…
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