Just posted the next installment in my mysterious “What am I doing?” posts. Head on over to the Internet Address Blog and have a quick read:
Monthly Archive for May, 2007
The Abode
Where Valerio, Marco and Daniel lived.
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(Thanks Mike for dropping me a note about this, when are you going to get a blog!)
I think the less I say the better, they really have it covered here:
We are dedicated to providing everything you need for your Christian Domestic Discipline marriage and are in the process of researching and adding more products relating to a traditional Christian marriage to our store.
Just one word of warning, DO NOT LOOK AT THE PANTALOONS!
I would love to get my hands on some of this stuff. While it is apparently not really the most practical or sturdy construction, it sure is retro cool….Amazing to think it has become such given that in its day it was most likely considered pretty bland and unimaginative.
It is a camera that will capture a moment at the press of a button. However, unlike a conventional analog or digital camera, this one doesn’t have any optical parts….
…The camera memorizes only the time and starts to continuously search on the net for other photos that have been taken in the very same moment.”
(Thanks to Wout for spotting that I forgot the link….<grin>)
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Darren, was that you?
She has been at me non-stop about adding a link to it from here, almost as if she thinks I have more readers than the New York Times.
Anyway, she does have a few pics from our recent travels with my folks, so it is certainly worth checking out.
to benumb or paralyze with astonishment, horror, or other strong emotion
My first experience of true beer is one I will never forget….
I started drinking beer professionally at about 18, before that I had tried it, but due to an internal philosophical debate convinced myself that it was not a nice beverage and decided to call drinking it experimentation. This however did not deter my natural beer mentor, Dad, from gently encouraging me to explore the amber liquid, nudging me as if I were learning to ride a bike or jump in a swimming pool for the first time. The fridge in our house was always full of many flavours, a result of Dad’s keen pursuit of the bargain. In fact if there were a second hand market for Beer, I’m sure our fridge would have become a “beer market” clearing house. What this did mean however was that I got to try a variety of brands including West End, Victoria Bitter and even Southwark.
So it was with these humble beginnings that I chose my first preferred beer, shuddering now, it was the “Coldee” or for those unaccustomed, the “Carlton Cold”. While it may seem today to be a choice entirely lacking in style and sophistication, I would like to point out that at the time, it was the beer for young lads, popping up at music festivals (in plastic half litre bottles) and all the best gigs (I drank it watching You Am I for example).
I stuck with the “Coldee” for at least two years, sadly years I will never get back, failing to venture from its safe clear bottle for fear of loosing the fragile taste for beer I had developed. I was secure in its inoffensive, conservative flavour and reassured of its cool by glitzy adverts. Sadly I could know no better.
One day that all changed, a deeper desire awakened within me and my life has never been the same…
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My parents recently visited me here in Amsterdam, it was an amazing trip, one that I will go into in a future post. One thing we talked about was a couple of old stories that I had written when I was younger, stories that I was surprised to hear they still had copies of!
I had thought they were lost when a web site I had posted them to, a kind of primitive blog called “An English Life”, went missing. I’m still sad about that to this day, it’s the only data I’ve really ever lost!
Anyway, I reckon posting them up here might be fun, might even encourage me to get back into doing a little writing, something I did have on my list of things to do post Microsoft…..
I’ve been pretty stealthy about what I have been doing since leaving Microsoft. That is going to continue for a little while, though I do plan to write about it, and write about what it has been like away from the mother ship.
In the mean time I just finished a blog post which I think gives you a pretty good feel for my current mission:
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