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…
As I mentioned in my last post, I did Getting Tough - The Race in Rudolstadt yesterday. Check out that post for a link to a first-person-style video shot at last year's event. Having watched that video, and obsessively scoured the internet for photos and any other tidbits of information, I expected that I knew what I was getting myself into. I have to say first up, whoever "Iron Mike" (poster of…
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…