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Every day, Scott Adams becomes more awesome in my mind. No kidding, he is a genius.
From the daily dose of Dilbert through the formula for happyness and onto biting, sarcastic political commentary, he's the total package of humour + intelligence.
I strongly suggest you subscribe to the unofficial Dilbert feed as well as the Dilbert blog feed.
Nature Shines
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This afternoon1 was one of those afternoons when you step out of the office and everything is gorgeous. It's as though that little box chock full of beautiful stuff which the world usually keeps mostly hidden away has just exploded and there's beauty just dripping from everything.
Looking out my window and watching the clouds roll in from the south-west it strikes me that I don't have an umbrella at work and I don't particularly feel like getting wet. Normally storms make me very excited, but this isn't really a storm, more just an afternoon shower. As the rain eased, ... more
Yet again...
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...I've let things slip so that I now have far too many things I want to write about in a good amount of detail that will no longer be worth writing about by the time I get around to it. But I'm going to try.
I got married! Yay!
You may have noticed a couple of pictures that have crept in down the bottom of the page there1. Many more are on their way, but I need time to sort the many thousands of pictures provided by the magic of digital photography and many friends.
To cut an awesome and ... more
Three months out
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Today is exactly three months out from the big day. It seems barely a few weeks since I wrote the six months out post, and it sure doesn't seem like we're that much more prepared. The only big thing we've accomplished is booking a celebrant, which basically means all the big things are sorted. A large percentage of the people I talk to about how the preparations are going seem to ask me if I'm nervous. I'm not. I don't know why I would be. If I were I think it would probably indicate some level of uncertainty about the ... more
Short and Sweet
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I'm currently listening to Coldplay's A Rush of Blood to the Head. It's giving me a warm fuzzy feeling inside and making me feel like hugging everyone.
We're going to see them live in June thanks to Tony and/or Jiselle for being on the ball and snatching tickets before they all sold out.
Splendour tickets go on sale very soon too. I'm determined not to miss them this year!
This is sw'as, the digital home of Simon Elvery - a 26 year old Web Developer with too many extra curricular interests. Usually written from Brisbane, Australia, sw'as has entries dating back to 2004 on subjects including politics, photography, books, music, and many other flights of fancy.
