Dima's parents have expressed their thanks for the support our community has offered over the past difficult days, and would very much appreciate his many friends attending his funeral. It will be held this Friday at 11am, with private time from 10:15 onwards. Those coming should gather at my house on Thursday night (bring sleeping gear), or on ( Read more... )

It's my sad duty to inform of a tragedy. Last night I received a call from my close friend Dima's (Or Keesa to those he knew online) parents; he was found dead in his room at around 9pm. I spent some time at his house trying to piece together what had happened, but it's too early to say for sure. Everyone here is still in shock; I don't think the ( Read more... )

There's another Centerparcs trip running this month at De Kempervennen on the NL/BE border. It runs from Fri 20th Apr until Sun 23rd, and costs roughly Eur100,- per person for the 4-day weekend based on 6 people sharing a 'Deluxe' grade 6-person cottage. This price includes a couple of evening barbecues. The rest of the food is self-catered ( Read more... )

As you might know, our home in the Netherlands was recently burgled. One of the valuables taken was my best projector, an Infocus LP850 (4500 lumens of yum. *cry!*). True to form, the insurance company is being as awkward as possible ( Read more... )

Today marks the tenth 'birthday' of my character on FurryMUCK. Tempus fugit and all that jazz. During this time I've wasted countless hours (mostly when I should have been working), and logged in no less than 8,711 times. That's around 2.4 logins per day. For a bloody decade. I need to get a life. :)

Created: Wed May 8 05:45:51 PDT 1996 ( Read more... )

I just spotted that I haven't written in this journal in over a year. Yet again it's not like I haven't had anything to write about, more that so much has been going on that I simply didn't know what to choose. Over the coming weeks I'll be jotting down the little caveats I can remember from the last 12 months, but in the meantime here's some of ( Read more... )

My most recent work project failed to get off to a flying start yesterday. Well, to be a fair the plane did too. On my way to Pakistan via the United Arab Emirates, my first flight was sat at Amsterdam Schiphol on the runway with engineering problems for 5 1/2 hours*. When we finally made it to our destination, I was greeted with the cheery news ( Read more... )

Reading the news this morning I was saddened to read of the death of one of my few real icons, Hunter S. Thompson. I'd salute him with a sizable bong right now, but I doubt the rest of the office would appreciate it.

Hunter S. Thompson Commits Suicide (BBC News)

I have been ricocheting around Europe like a pingpong ball in a clothes dryer lately. Because of this I have, I must confess, slowly been becoming jaded toward the joy of travel. It therefore felt like a normal week when the Swiss client involved with our current project decided to conduct a change when they actually had no staff available at all ( Read more... )

I never did have good timing.
On Friday I flew back from yet another week in Switzerland, looking forward to my first free weekend in a very long time. On descending towards Amsterdam I started to get serious trouble from my right ear as it's inner pressure wouldn't equalise. Weirdly, it got worse that night - I (and by proxy kensaro) was woken up early ( Read more... )