The Barnes Family

Category: Miscellaneous

  • Marketing with Integrity

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    Having spent a long time in marketing and strategy, I’ve been often frustrated by the emphasis on “spin”—making things look better than they are. It’s a temporary way to make people feel better, but it doesn’t work as a sustainable strategy for marketing and sales. This site on Squidoo is dedicated to thinking about this…

  • A few new pictures

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    When we were living in England, I followed the Volvo circumnavigation race – big powerful boats doing up to 500 miles in 24 hours under sail. They visited Portsmouth, and we went down to see them and take some pictures. This boat is the Brazilian entry, who came third in the Portsmouth race, but I…

  • Site abberation

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    The site was down briefly – sorry! What happened was that my domain was set to renew automatically, but it didn’t. Instead of getting a message from the registration company, they just unlinked the site. Thanks, Beachcomber. Not. Anyway, it’s back up now, following a simple PayPal transaction. 

  • Porsche 944 Turbo RIP

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    Alas, my car was destroyed by a rear-ender in Los Gatos a couple of weeks ago. I think the driver was changing lane and didn’t see the line of traffic in front. The collision was strong enough to push me into four more cars, but I think mine was the only one to be a…

  • Sailing in the Bay

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    After a busy week we all went up to Redwood City and spent a couple of hours out on the water in a Merit 25. The boat is apparently based on the J24, but has better accomodation and is more of a cruiser. The boys enjoyed taking the helm and helping with the rigging, and…

  • We’re installed in the US of A

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    It’s great to be back in our house – even though there’s a great deal of work to be done. It was very sad saying goodbye to all our friends and family in Europe, and I am looking forward to the opportunities I will have to visit them again. Having been in a rented house…

  • Happy Christmas!

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    What a year it has been! Sadly our last in the UK for a while, but rich beyond measure. We’ll write a proper retrospective later – perhaps in time for the Chinese New Year (our excuse for a late Christmas letter!), but this time around I would like to acknowledge all the gifts of kindness…

  • www.tim-barnes.com now points here!

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    After moving most of the content – and I think everything that’s important, I’ve implemented a forwarder to transfer my old domain – www.tim-barnes.com – to this, my new site. There’s no longer any reason to visit the old site, and all future updates will be made to this one and my other blog at…

  • Integrating my photo blog

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    I have maintained a separate page and blog for my thoughts about digital photography, but it’s hard to keep more than a couple of sites active and interesting, so I’m going to incorporate my comments on photography in this blog. The first thing I’ll do is re-post the old articles here, and then in the…

  • More tech: building a computer

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    Along the same theme as the previous post, Caelean and I are building a computer. Actually it’s one I built a while a go and have now taken apart. Caelean reads about it first, and makes some notes and draws the critical things, then we sit down with the bits and look at them to…