Monthly Archives: September 2006

Homeward Bound

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It’s 8am EST on Saturday in the New York Amtrak station and am beginning my return trip

By the time I get back it will be 8am GMT on Sunday after a 3 and a half hour train ride to Boston, a transit, checking in time, and flight back to London Heathrow. Add on the 5 hour time difference and you get to about 7am. An hour’s journey home and I won’t know whether it’s morning or night

It’s been a great 10 days which seem to have been non-stop. Think i need a nice beach holiday to recover from it.

The wedding went well, Boston was good fun and New York was great – Empire State Building, Central Park, China Town, Broadway, Times Square, Museum of Modern Art, and everything else that I can’t remember at the moment.

Couldn’t resist a stop to the Apple Store on 5th Avenue, and am now the owner of a shiny new 80Gb iPod Video (but shhhh! Don’t tell customs – they need to believe I had it before I went out) and a nifty app called Popcorn 2 so I can convert some DVDs easily into H.264 (mpeg4). Oh, and I’ll prob convert some of my huge music Video collection too so i can view it on the iPod

Thought I’d make one post on the blog while I had a few minutes to kill in the departure lounge.

Speak to you all tomorrow (I think!) or later on in the week

Going to America

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By 10am tomorrow I’ll be on a plane for my first trip to the United States of America
We’re going to spend 4 days in Boston and 5 days in New York give or take a day travelling
It should be great fun and really looking forward to it
The last 2 days at work have been a bit mad as I’ve tried to get everything done in time and I just about got it done by 5:45 this afternoon
Did my packing in about 10 minutes as I always do and we’re just about set.

Am back on the 30th but I wouldn’t expect anything out of me till the day after as I will almost certainly be jet-lagged – esp since the last flight this long I did was 6 years ago.

Hopefully will have photos and stories to tell

Seven Deadly Sins

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I haven’t posted anything for a while for various reasons – it’s not that i haven’t got anything to say. I’ve been plotting a few good things that i could combine together particularly about music sampling. But largely it’s been due to laziness, so thought this link was fairly appropriate:

Your Deadly Sins
Sloth: 80%
Envy: 40%
Pride: 40%
Lust: 20%
Wrath: 20%
Gluttony: 0%
Greed: 0%
Chance You’ll Go to Hell: 29%
You will die with your hand down your underwear, watching Star Trek.

I also took the liberty of doing a few others on the same site:

You Are 40% Happy

You’re not miserable, but you could stand to be a lot happier.
Focus on what’s right in the world, and you’ll be happier than you ever thought possible.

How Happy Are You?


You Are 76% Cynical


You’re a full blown cynic… and probably even skeptical of these results.
You have your optimistic moments, but most likely you keep them to yourself.

How Cynical Are You?

Apparently i share a similar music taste with Dale Earnhardt Jr whoever he is – though it’d prob be a pretty tenuous similarity as it was largely the best of a bad batch of artists. Looking at his playlist on iTunes and i definitely wouldn’t listen to many of those tracks, though it’s prob the closest they could match me with


Your Musical Tastes Match: Dale Earnhardt Jr.



See his whole playlist here (iTunes required)

What Celebrity Matches Your Taste in Music?