Posts Tagged ‘ Drivel

Heading off to Europe soon

edit: Soon as in today

Just a quick reminder if people weren’t sure, but Jenni and I are off trekking across Europe for the next 3 weeks.

We’ll be going through about 8 countries, seeing various towers and cultural landmarks, several long train rides and Norwegian fjord boat cruise.

Plus I’ll be in Utrecht for EDDI. Fun times, see you all in about 3 weeks.

Thredbo Trip Report

For those of you not following my twitter feed, we got back from the snow yesterday. The weather was great, with snow on the first few days we were there, and then warming up over the week. It was kind of icy on the last two days, which contributed the majority of falls, almost exclusively by me. On Friday I had a bad fall and thought I had done some serious damage to my shoulder, but after a few days in a sling it was ship-shape again.

While we were over in Canberra, wife and I had a chance to look at some real estate in the Belconnen area for when we move over as part of the 2011 Graduate program with the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

For now, its back to work, and study, and code, etc… This semester should be a little lighter on my work load, especially with the wedding out of the way. So aside from uni/work code I should be able to continue active development on some of my personal projects. Namely, the DDI Classification Viewer and the Perl-Email-Twitter Gateway script. The latter of which got a serious test during the holiday, and may be rewritten in Python in the coming weeks.

Me on the snow

A victorious pose after shredding down the mountain!

How little can one blog before they are no-longer a ‘blogger’?

I really should keep on top of this blog better, I have 3 half finished drafts of posts that I still haven’t gotten around to finishing, mostly for silly reasons like lack of time or sleep or appropriate photos to go with them.

  • Updates in my life since the last post:
  • Exams are over,
  • Am now married,
  • Off to Thredbo in a few days for a week of snowboarding,
  • Have a major piece of work (for work) hosted and ready to demo when I get to Canberra,
  • Rewriting a perl/email/twitter gateway in python so its easier to distribute.

Fortunately, I will never have to plan a wedding again (which can be a massive time-sink (but worth it)), so I should be able to keep on top of this when I get back from the snow.