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Year: 2006

And now it has a name: Post-Rock

19 August, 2006

A few years back I heard a rash of tracks on 3WK.com that were unlike anything I’d come across before.  These included Montherfucker = Redeemer (Part 2) by Godspeed! You Black Emperor, My Father My King by Mogwai, Auberge Le Mouton Noir by Do Make Say Think, and Com (?) by Mono.  These tracks were […]

Getting skin in the commuting game

4 August, 2006

Further to my last missive, I finally succeeded in biking to/from work.  Although (much like Finn learning to ride his bike without stabilizers) I didn’t really have much choice, as my car is in for repair.  The windscreen wipers stopped wiping, opting to emit a burning plastic smell instead, and when I took it to the […]

Mid-life mountain-biking crisis

24 July, 2006

This weekend I treated myself to a new mountain bike.  My old one has been slowly dying on me and I finally decided I’d had enough when it shed a pedal 5km out from home, forcing me to walk all the way back. When I visited my local bicycle emporium (Robeet BikeStyle, in Tervuren) I was […]

And not a ‘Hi-De-Hi’ within earshot

19 July, 2006

Last weekend we enjoyed a family holiday (4 days – does that count as a holiday?) at one of the CenterParcs here in Belgium (De Vossemeren).  We’ve never done one of these kind of places before (I think us Brits have a natural aversion to anything that even vaguely smells of a Butlins Holiday Camp), […]

Top Of The Pops, Bottom Of The Ratings

28 June, 2006

The BBC have announced that Top Of The Pops is to be axed.  For the non-Brits, Top Of the Pops is (or at least was) the flagship ‘music’ programme produced by the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation).  It has been airing weekly since 1964, and was for many of those years the only ‘youth-oriented’ programme produced […]

Nu kan ik Nederlands spreken

21 June, 2006

For the past year I’ve been studying Flemish (a.k.a. Dutch) at night school.  I’ve just had my end-of-year exams, and thankfully I passed (and quite comfortably, with 84%).  For my efforts, I’ve been awarded an offical certificate, which felt oddly like the Straw Man in the Wizard of Oz receiving his diploma, as I didn’t really study that […]

The Seven Swear-words of Successful Managers

4 June, 2006

We had a bit of a sketch at work, recently.  The developers had made some code changes to add new functionality that our users desperately wanted.  The change went in the night before a public holiday, which in retrospect wasn’t a great idea (especially as the programmer who made the change had flown back to […]

I Hate Lynne Truss

18 May, 2006

My wife is the Events Coordinator for the Parents’ Association of our childrens’ school.  This means that I’m effectively involved too, doing anything that involves touching a PC instead of the ‘phone.  This week I had to deisgn and print some tickets for their Summer Ball.  Being short on both time and patience (and unpaid) I […]

Belgium is Driving Me Crazy

3 May, 2006

OK, I’ve now been in Belgium for over a year, so I think I’m qualified to make a few comments without being dismissed as a ‘newbie’ who needs to learn to adapt.  There are some aspects of driving in Belgium that I just can’t adapt to.  Three of them, in fact: (1) Giving way to […]

Fear and More Fear in Central America

21 April, 2006

I’m in Honduras. Ostensibly to deliver a training course I developed, but I’m also taking advantage of the opportunity to witness the implementation of our new system at one of our convenience stores. What initial visions I had of seeing a bit of the country rapidly disappeared when my contact over here advised me (before […]


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