We’ve been decluttering the house. We now have several empty shelves in our TV unit and bookcases. They regularly get colonised. When we took the doors off the wardrobe, I commented to Katy that we’d get a cat in there. That didn’t take long…
Month: October 2018
Schilliger Christmas display
I like the Christmas Circus theme. It’s still early, but Christmas is getting nearer. This makes me happy, or as near to it as I can get these days.
Internet addiction
Two questions come to mind. Who is addicted to Uber? And more importantly, where’s pronhub??
This word!
Defines most of my university years! When I moved to the UK, I brought boxes of floppies with me that all ended up going to the tip when we got a laptop with no floppy drive. Even now, I’m still trying to clear 20 year old files I’ve been carrying around out of my backups.
Chasse!
Everything on the plate, save for the spätzle, is homemade: balsamic bacon brussel sprouts, braised cabbage with apples, mulled wine-poached pears, boar fillet, mulled wine gravy. Been cooking most of the afternoon, but da-yum!
Move over, le Motty, there’s a new chasse game in town!
Swiss people
Some people say that the Swiss can be standoffish. This might be the cases in some parts of the country (looking at you, German cantons), but the Swiss Romands are lovely people. I’ve just had a completely impromptu 15 minute conversation with a lovely man called Claude and his tibetan terrier. He professed his love of Gilles Villeneuve, was à martial arts instructor, and spoke about the lovely vacation he’d had in Montréal when he was a boy.
Canada trip picture mosaic
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It always works on the dev’s machine
Except during live demos.
This is why my work clothes are always ginger
Every. Single. Time.
Wow… just… wow.
Once in a while, I try and clean up the crap that’s been accumulating in my website. I just realized that I built my first website some time in 1998, if not before, and some traces of it still linger on the filesystem today – and also on the Wayback Machine.
The original homepage – circa 1998 – greeted you like this:
Welcome gentle reader.
A bit of background on this website:
In case you’re wondering what Karoshi means, let me inform you that it is a japanese expression meaning “death by overwork”. It’s fairly representative of the last few years of my life, moreso since I’ve started working towards my master’s degree. An interesting article on Karoshi can be found here
This web was setup primarily to showcase my the ever growing amount of pictures in my portfolio. In other parts of my web, you’ll also have a look at my bio and resume.
As a side note, the original title of the website was The Karoshi Archives – which I know now is in bad taste, but I was young and stupid at the time, and still used BLINK and MARQUEE tags and had ALT descriptions as “COOL SEPARATOR BAR”. Oy.