adrift on a cosmic ocean

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.

Posts tagged with vacation

  • Separation and reunification
    Posted by Oliver on the 14th of March, 2012 in category Thoughts

    If you know me from my professional life you may think of me as a techy, obsessive-compulsive, slightly (or aggressively) arrogant person driven to making some cool large systems work. But I'm also a family man, and for the last two months I've been separated from two-thirds of that family. During the last vacation back to Australia, I came back at the start of January while my wife and son stayed…

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