Writings on various topics (mostly technical) from Oliver Hookins and Angela Collins. We currently reside in Sydney after almost a decade in Berlin, have three kids, and have far too little time to really justify having a blog.
It has been about 7 months since the birth of my daughter and I think that's about long enough to let myself sit idle due to child rearing. Certainly as the father, I don't have that many excuses as to why I can't become physically active again, and I actually miss running and taking part in the various crazy obstacle races. So, I've resolved to get myself back into shape (without being too…
I've just created a new category on this blog - Health - and recategorised one of the older articles I wrote a while ago. Being a confirmed computer geek, fitness has never really been very high on my priority list until I got into kayaking when I was about 24 or so. I managed to keep that up for several years and ended up quite fit - completing a 111km kayaking marathon three times in consecutive…
A friend drew my attention to the fact that it has been around three months since my last post on this blog. Sadly, life has gotten in the way of my more technical posts - there have been a lot of things going on preventing me from writing more frequently. Vacation, how busy I am at work with various new responsibilities and a lot of features to deliver, team-mates to train up, learning some new…