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.
Oh dear, it's been another long time since my last post. To be fair, this year has been very hectic. Earlier in the year I was focussing a lot more on spending my commutes meditating (somewhat successfully), but recently I've found that reading on the train and in whatever free time I can scrape together has almost the same effect - so I don't mind meditating less.
When I was in primary school I took part regularly in the MS Read-a-thon - much less for the fundraising aspect as for the reading aspect. I was a mad reader. I think in the month or so of the read-a-thon I managed one year to crank through around 35 books. Admittedly these weren't exactly Ulysses-sized or complexity, but I think that's a…
Well, I've certainly had a lot less free time to write blog posts recently. I don't even have my actual desktop computer back in operation yet (the screen was cracked in transit). We have finally moved into an apartment in Sydney and life is returning to some definition of normal. With three kids and a new job there is a lot to balance, and not a lot of time for many things.
That being said, I've…