Archive for August, 2008
Left, Right, Jump
I was wasting time in the office by playing with the Wii and discovered that you can buy & download ancient console games that you can play on your TV. I got Sonic the Hedgehog (Sonic the Hedgehog broke ground by adding the element of speed to the standard platform formula and introduced other unique [...]
Back in the saddle
After the absolute beating I got the last time I went mountain biking I was a little hesitant to get on the cable-car with my bike again. But I’ve bought some more body armor now - a full upper body kit with a back plate and arm protection. It’s not cheap this stuff. So far [...]
Souricide
I’m starting to really like the French language. It can be beautiful. Here’s a word I discovered today which really made me smile. Souricide. I guess it means rat-poison, judging by the cute little critter on the box who is about to meet his maker.
Wii’s ARE good, but iphones……
iPhones are amazing. I’ve finally got one after a frustrating wait since they came on the market last last year. Now that it’s half the price, twice as fast and you can insure the thing against loss or breaking it, my wait is finally over.The advertising strapline for the new 3G iPhone here in France [...]
Simon’s Cat
This pretty much sums up exactly what Tia did to me this morning.
Och Aye
It’s me in a kilt.
And there’s also some more photos here, stills from the video I shot at the wedding.
Wii’s are good
So the rest of the wedding went off without a hitch and was a thoroughly brilliant couple of days. From the (very) Catholic, if slightly chaotic church service to the supper & excellent speaches made by my dad & the groom, it was definitely my favorite wedding I’ve ever been to. I just heard from [...]
Back in the Fatherland
I’m back in Germany this week. It’s my sister Caroline’s wedding. I’ve been looking forward to it for months. I can’t remember the last time our whole family were together like this. Caroline’s twin, Karen and her boyfriend have traveled back from New Zealand for the occasion and there’s family friends I haven’t seen for [...]
The silliest sport ever
I bought some mountain biking body armor the other day. And a lift pass for the Les Houches area for the summer. So obviously I was keen to start booting it down the mountain on my bike with it’s new brakes & tires. My friend Fred came along to show me some routes and the [...]
Ironic
I met a friend I hadn’t seen for a while at the bar last night. I mentioned that I hadn’t had the Internet for a week or so and that it was quite nice to have a bit of a holiday from it. “Yeh,” he said “I read that on your blog.” “Which is quite [...]
