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Author Archives: Dave

The Geography of Bliss

By Dave | Published: May 31, 2010
The Geo­graphy of Bliss is a book which explores hap­pi­ness in rela­tion to cul­tural and geo­graph­ical situ­ations. It looks at why people from dif­fer­ent coun­tries are happy, and how they are dif­fer­ently happy. I haven’t read this book, but I saw a quo­ta­tion today which made me stop what I was doing to think: You can [...]
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Site Redesign

By Dave | Published: May 27, 2010
I have star­ted to redesign the site from scratch this even­ing, and so for the next few weeks it will prob­ably be a little rough around the edges as I pol­ish it up to how I want it. It does, how­ever, all still work, and you can still access all the posts etc. I hope [...]
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Skin Up, Skid Down

By Dave | Published: March 2, 2010
There was a def­in­ite hint of trep­id­a­tion as I clicked into my skis at the begin­ning of the tour. A Sunday morn­ing, early, the day after the per­fect storm that never arrived. I had woken up at 7 to clear blue skies, and at that moment it became cer­tain. I was going to the moun­tains. [...]
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