Places I've Been
Well, this is cool - even it just shows how few places I've been:
The actual countries are:
- USA (for a Python programming conference, but we managed to see three states in one day in a driving trip)
- UK - well uhm... most of the time in fact (I've been to Belfast, but never south of the border - so not Ireland)
- Denmark (a family visit as a teenager. I was on the cusp of puberty and the most memorable thing about the country was the prominent bosoms on huge billboards, oh plus the incident with the jellyfish and discovering that mayonnaise goes with chips)
- France (several family visits)
- Holland (an ill fated trip to Amsterdam whilst I was going mad)
- Poland (two programming conferences)
- Romania (to visit my wife's family)
- Italy (to visit a university friend of my wife)
And that's it. 
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Posted by Fuzzyman on 2007-06-24 23:11:16 | |
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Spider versus Bumblebee
Today I was witness to an epic struggle, as two bitter enemies fought to the death in mortal combat:
Unfortunately the most exciting parts happened before I fetched my camera. The bumblebee got snagged in the web, and the spider (a hefty brute) saw its chance for a week's worth of dinner.
The bee managed to break free, but obviously still had silk on its wings and couldn't fly off.
The spider lunged several times, presumably biting the bee, who was making a desperate attempt to escape on foot! In the end the spider seemed to get bored. Either it gave up (bumblebee fur a bit tough to bite through?), or perhaps it just settled back to wait for the bee to tire or die.
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Posted by Fuzzyman on 2007-06-23 16:40:34 | |
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Archives
The Old Blog Archives
There was so much ancient wisdom distilled into my old blog, that I couldn't let it just creep ignominiously into the pages of cyber-history. More to the point I'm still getting some hits from google with the old entries. Here are the archives of my previous Blogger based blog.
