January 2009
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For those of you who didn't know...
Tobias won the programmers award at his tournament for outstanding programming. I salute Tobias for this award and hope he finds the same joy in bending computers to his will as I do.
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Sunday afternoon
I was still jet lagged this morning and pulled myself out of bed in time to meet my coworker, Mike Walker for a walk to the East End of London. I wanted to take Mike back to Brick Lane for a taste of salt beef bagels that I had eaten the last time I was here.
On the way to Spitalfields, we walked by this tower. This tower doesn’t appear from the outside to be religious in nature - or at...
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Saturday morning in London - Part 1
Today I was supposed to get up and go to Oxford with my wife’s cousin and husband. The plan sounded great until I couldn’t fall asleep last night. After 1am I realized that a.) I wasn’t going to make it and b.) I had no way of communicating back to my hosts other than by email. Needless to say I got a very annoyed phone call one hour after I was supposed to be there asking where...
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Losing Touch - The Killers
This is my London...
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London in January on a Friday night
Americans have an idea that British people drink more than they do. Is this statistically true? I don’t know, but being in London on a Wednesday, Thursday or Friday night reinforces the stereotype.
London no longer allows indoor smoking as many cities in the US. The result is a cloud of smoke and crowds standing outside of the ubiquitous pubs on Cannon Street, in Soho, or other places in...
“Resisting change is like holding one’s breath; success is fatal.”
– Unknown
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“Today I ate at Eat.”
– Eat.