Posts from ‘January, 2005’

It was very calm when we awoke this morning. From experience I figured it was snowing, as all sounds were muffled, and I was right. After breakfast I put on my wellies and took a broom to the bushes and small trees to shake off some of that snow before the weight broke the branches. [...]

Friday night - or rather Saturday morning at around one am - my son left his friends in town to take the bus home. In the middle of Geneva he was set upon by a gang of about ten people of his age. One of them punched him in the face and another in the [...]

I was over at the Diva’s blog a while ago and noticed she was reading a book by Thich Nhat Hanh (a Vietnamese Buddhist Monk exiled in France) entitled “Being Peace“.
As I was curious, I googled around and I was able to read some of his writings from his site at Plum Village. Yesterday I [...]

I’m early this month as I was able to take my pics around the house.
This month’s assignment is lamps, 5 of them and not necessarily those that hang from the ceiling.
Here is one of my entries. I had a lot of fun as usual!

Looking back over the last few posts I see that it is a while since I posted a photo.
I was searching through my image directories when I came across this one. Looking at it closely for a minute or two I was struck by the smiles. I can’t remember where it was taken or [...]

I have this vision (professionaly speaking that is) that my organisation should be using different technologies for a whole range of documents that we produce.
At this moment in time most of our Project Management Documents are produced in Microsoft Word. Some are produced from templates whereas most are older documents opened and modified (does this [...]

I friend of mine posted a text he had read on life in the 1500s and I have asked him for the source so I can use it. As I had a little time on my hands this morning I decided to do some research of my own.
It wasn’t so hard to find. Thanks Google…
So [...]

Read an interesting article on the BBC news political pages this morning. The story concerns Bob Geldof who has been voted by radio listeners in the UK as a candidate for a “Peoples Peer” which would give him the title of Lord Geldof.
Apart from his comments on Peerhood he made an interesting observation on the [...]

It doen’t exist does it? I remember when I first downloaded Winamp and how great it was. I even donated my 10 dollars (I was really pleased and wanted to encourage the authors). Then they brought out a paying version and didn’t take into account those that had already donated (shame).
In between times I had [...]

Flip was blogging about Winter Sales today when I visited her site. She was writing about the search for that perfect and personal pair of jeans that always seem to elude you (so right).
That made me think that my wife hates sales and rummaging in general. This led me to the verb to rummage and [...]