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Monthly Archives: May 2007

Lighter

Sunday, May 27, 2007

Contrary to my expectations, I returned home from my NY trip 0.5kg lighter than when I left.
I feel an immediate curry is in order to redress the balance.

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Coming home

Saturday, May 26, 2007

So I’m returning home.
Pick up from my office at 7.30pm. The building was quiet in advance of the holiday weekend here in the US, but it was still 90ºF and I wondered if my car would turn up.
Lo! the largest minivan in existence was there with my name written on the side. Hurrah!
40 mins later [...]

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Commute

Thursday, May 24, 2007

I’m still in New York and enjoying the work (honestly) but I do miss home. Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure NY is a lovely place, but it’s not the same. I’ve been to NY before so am not particularly interested in sight-seeing, and I’ve watched way too many episodes of Law & Order, CSI:NY, [...]

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Tie

Monday, May 21, 2007

It would seem I have my doubters, judging by the comments to my previous post.
Here is a pic of me today in my cave (window-less room where guests work)

Not a great pic, but that’s what you get when you have to use Cisco webcams instead of iSight.

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On being a permie…

Sunday, May 20, 2007

So I’m now a permie again. As I mentioned before (I think) I’ve been a IT contractor for about 13 years and am now back in permiedom.
Those of you who have known me professionally in the last few years will know what I think of permiedom… something you do when you don’t care about money, [...]

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Life post-Zelda

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Finishing Zelda: Twilight Princess left a bit of a hole in my life. It was the main reason for wanting a Wii and when it was complete I didn’t know what to do.
I consoled (pun unintended) my self with creating many Miis, although I’ve so far failed to get any of them to mingle with [...]

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