Photo by Infodad So, that’s it then. The end of 2009. Looking back over the notes, this was a pretty good year, and since I’ve blogged a fair bit of it (though with some significant gaps – must watch that in 2010), I thought I’d do a quick wrap-up of some of the highlights. But [...]
Categories: Birmingham,Business,Family,New Zealand,Technology,Travel,Whisky
Photo by Ethan Hein Every now and then I notice a change in the way I use the internet. Generally speaking, I’ll make adjustments as I go – trying and abandoning new services, sometimes making different things part of my everyday life, and occasionally radically transforming my workflow (always for the better, as it happens). [...]
Categories: Technology
Photo by PetersPic924 As you may have read, my New Year’s resolution is to do twelve different things for thirty days each throughout 2010. And I thought that after the excess of Christmas and New Year, probably the best way to start is with 30 days of detox – starting January 2nd. I’m not going [...]
Categories: Food
Our last day in Prague. Bobbie and Kelly went shopping, and so Jake and I went exploring. We saw some cool buildings – even wandered into a couple of them. But one of the highlights of the day was Jake finding something slightly more challenging than the Rubik’s cube. He’s been doing the cube for [...]
Tagged: Food, Prague, puzzle, Restaurant, rubik, Vegetarian
An altogether quieter Boxing Day. Instead of turning left outside the hotel, today we decided to turn right, and just follow our noses. We ended up seeing a bit more of what we assumed to be ‘typical’ Czech life, as well as some pretty amazing stuff – like this broadcasting tower covered with babies. It [...]
Kelly, Bobbie & Jake (in order of height) Bobbie’s sister Kelly is over from New Zealand, and Christmas this year is in Prague. Bobbie’s been before, but it was a first time for Jake and me – and Kelly hadn’t been to the Northern Hemisphere before, so it’s a first for her too. We flew [...]
Tagged: Christmas, Czech Republic, Prague
I’ve been giving a lot of thought to New Year Resolutions for 2010, and of course, I came up with a lot of the usual stuff. I also came up with some stuff that was less usual, but not the sort of thing I wanted to spend a whole year doing. For instance, in 2010, [...]
I’ve been asked by a few people – but I’ve actually been putting off making any lists, because choosing the ‘best’ albums of a decade is pretty much meaningless – and an incredibly stressful task. You’re bound to have forgotten somebody’s favourite – or simply not heard something truly magnificent. How can you possibly hope [...]
Categories: Music
They reckon is 30 is new 18. And 40 is the new 25. Something is the new black, but I can’t remember what it is. Stripes maybe. My father turned 70 years old today. He reckons 70 is the new 30. He neither looks nor, he says, feels anywhere close to 70. Three-score years and [...]
Categories: Family,New Zealand
