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Probably.
About The Big Slurp
If you’re writing software or providing a service, you should wrap your organisation in a bubble to ensure that you’re protected from external forces. But what happens when you become dependent on external suppliers? What happens to that bubble?
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A few episodes ago, I gave you a potted history of how I started in podcasting. So let me go deeper into the show that started everything.
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If one was to jump approximately 3,200mi west-southwest across the big pond from this location, you would set foot on a land of highly-charged, and highly-mixed emotions. Today in US politics has divided the nation, and possibly even the world.
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When I was at college in the 90s, there were two camps of fantasy fiction: Eddings or Pratchett. I was solidly in the Eddings camp. There are another two camps of a similar ilk that people tend to be in one or the other, rarely both.
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Over 18½ years ago, I sat on the floor in my living room with my laptop and a crappy Trust headset and recorded my first ever podcast episode. The rest, as they say, is history. However, some of you may not know that history, so…
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In this, the first episode of my NaPodPoMo series for 2026, I dust off my microphone (not a euphemism), and then introduce you to this year’s challenge.
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Something different today as I present a soundscape from Saturday evening, when the sky was filled with the light and smoke from a thousand fireworks.
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The Big Slurp has been going for a few years now, and – given that I’ve been podcasting for over 15 years now – I thought that some of you might appreciate a bit of a nerdy explanation of how I produce these episodes.
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Just under two years ago, I did an episode about my first six months as an Amateur Radio operator. So now seems like a good time to bring you up to date on my journey so far.
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Yesterday, the UK government announced that it has added the American Bully XL to the list of banned dogs in England and Wales, following a number of attacks – sometimes fatal – involving this particular breed. In this episode, I ask: is this the right decision?
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