An old friend used to call the winter solstice ‘the darkest day’, which I always thought was a rather depressing view of it, but completely accurate none-the-less. The good news is that the amount of daylight begins increasing again from today, which is especially good news if you suffer from SAD syndrome like myself.
However today also marks the last post of the year here, so until 2007 let me wish you many seasonal returns. If you’re at the Warehouse Project we’ll see you along with several thousand others to wave goodbye to the venue on the 1st January 2007.
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22.Dec.06 
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Part two: Don’t look back in anger
Christmas 2005 was less enjoyable than I was hoping. Being forced to resign two weeks earlier obviously put a strain on the holiday finances, but more importantly the mortgage for our new property was in jeopardy. I decided to ignore everything and just try and ride the last weeks of December as best I could, then start afresh in January.
The new (current) Polaris Digital web site launched on January 6th 2006, which allowed me to began e-mailing everyone I could think of, but most of the companies in the Mancheter area were not hiring. Meanwhile Standard Life confirmed they could not give me a mortgage in the current situation and my credit card company where starting to want at least some of their money back.
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The end of the year is fast approaching bringing endless Christmas parties and new years fare up and down the country. I have some outstanding duties to perform before the year is out, mainly work related. One task I will complete is the second and final part of the tale of the past 12 months, better known as The Third Way part two. I will post this before 2007, but as to when I can’t say.
Things that are coming up to look out for is the launch of the new shiny, sparkling and fresh Polaris Digital web site. When it is live you’ll be able to find out more about a lot of the projects I’ve been working on recently.
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This week Sir Rod Eddington delivered his report on transport in the UK. As we near the end of the first decade of the 21st Century large social change is taking place in our lives. BT have been busy updating the phone network to 21st Century standards (read more: http://www.switchedonuk.org/), free wire-less networks are popping up in cities across the country and our television is going through some sort of digital evolution. But while our digital lives are being transformed on almost a daily basis, our ‘real’ world infrastructure is left wanting.
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Yes, there are now 25 days until Christmas and one of the things I always mean to do, but always forget, is send out my cards to far off friends and family. But sending one through the post is so last century and the majority of web animated cards are not great.
Luckily, a new site has come to the rescue. Jo and Joe cards supply very high quality animated cards with beautifully composed music tracks. To send a card, you must register and pay an annual fee of £9.00. Just under a tenner for the quality and ability to send endless cards for any occasion, isn’t bad at all.
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