Posts Categorized: Fun Time

My First Computer Ever

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Believe it or not this antique saw me learning Basic back in the day — a few centuries ago 🙂 I still have it — well, my parents do — and it’s still working!!! Though I haven’t got a tape player nor do I have any of the programs I worked on — or the […]

Go Earthquakes!

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Finally got off my lazy bum and went to watch San Jose Earthquakes play their football at home for the first time. To be honest, it was rather good — the Santa Clara stadium is quite small and intimate and they won against Chicago FC 5-1 — woohoo!

Silicon Valley Storytellers Toastmasters Turns 1 Year Old

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I’ve had the pleasure of attending the Silicon Valley Storytellers Toastmasters group’s 1 Year anniversary this week — and we got a treat with a few inspiring speeches as well as some wicked impromptu ones, as you might see from the attached agenda for the night (below). The new officers of the club have been […]

Continents Reunited

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In this photo, there are 4 continents, 3 people, 2 companies and one team: With my friends Denis (Australia) and Nick (South Africa) — and me obviously (Europe) — in a bar in America. We all used to be part of the same team back in the days in London, nowadays Nick has started his […]

Wanted: Creative Software Engineer

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A while back, LinkedIn included me in the exclusive group of people who are allowed to have their own blog hosted on LinkedIn 🙂 As such, I got an invite from LinkedIn to start creating my first post. I stared at that email for ages I think (at least a couple of months) before I […]

Real Or Not?

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Believe it or not this actually is a real (not plastic!) flower I have just spotted in the local florist. No idea how they get it to look like this but it’s bloody awesome!