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Data Hoarding

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

I have been watching the show “Hoarders” on iTunes for the past few nights, and was struck with amazement at how people can live like that, piles and piles of junk and other worthless (for me at least) memorabilia piling up in their houses.

I then saw my wife deleting all her facebook comments of the last year and erasing all texts from her iPhone, I asked “why ?” she said she wanted to get rid of all the clutter from her digital media, like a end-of-year cleaning ..

It then daunted on me, I am a “Data Hoarder”, while I have no problem in hiring a skip every year and emptying the garage of all the clutter, I am unable to delete a single file from my Hard Drive, I have a couple of years worth of texts on my iPhone and e-mails from 2 decades ago (well, 2 decades from tomorrow).

My wife looks at my laptop the same way I look at those hoarders houses, a conglomerate of junk and (for her) worthless heaps of data, but for me, they priceless.

Well, at least my hoarding does not smell

31.12.2009 Computers / Internet, General No Comments

Chrome McLaren

Monday, November 9th, 2009

Today outside the Canary Wharf apartment was this beast !

A Chrome Mercedes McLaren !!

I never though a chrome car would look good, but this one sure did, one word .. Sweet

09.11.2009 General No Comments

Piggy Bank

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

I hate to carry coins, so every night I tend to empty my pockets of any coins I accumulated during the day, so as such, I noticed I was starting to gather quite a few handfuls of coins all around the apartment, it was time for a Piggy bank

And this is it, over 2 feet tall, probably will hold quite a few hundred quid when full, if I timed it correctly, should be read to empty just around XMAS .. the girls will like that

15.04.2009 General No Comments

New Video Cam: Sanyo Xacti HD2000

Monday, March 9th, 2009

Today I received the new HD camera I bought on Friday, I was quite surprised, as I bought it from Honk Kong .. 3 days (weekend) to get here, and not customs charge … nice.

Since we are off on holiday to Paris next month, I wanted a new video camera to use there, when I read this one also took 8MP photos, I was hooked, plus the pistol grip style and small format, it was a winning combination.

But I had to wait 2 months for it, as it was announced on january, but just released a week or so ago

Preliminary tests show the quality is amazing, I was a bit afraid of the lack of Optical Stabilization, but the digital stabilizer seems to do a good job, so I will stop worrying about it and just enjoy the camera.

Also saved 150 quid over the UK price (not that you can buy it in the UK yet)

09.03.2009 General, Photography No Comments

Liver & Bacon

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

There is a small eatery next to the office that does the best L&B ever.. Dirt cheap too, me and Everaldo have lunch there almost daily.

03.03.2009 General No Comments

Back to London

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

I’m in the train going back to London for another week of work.

I can’t believe a week has passes already since I last posted on tweeter the same thing.

Time sure flies, I take solisse in the knowing I have Brazilian feijoada waiting for me in London … Yummy !!!

22.02.2009 General, Trips / Places No Comments

London Snow

Monday, February 2nd, 2009

Last night must have fallen about a foot of snow in London, and unfortunately, on a country not used to such levels, it meant everything grinded to a halt.

I had to walk about 2 miles to work since the DLR broke down, on a normal day it would have been ok, but on ice and mushy slippery snow, it was murder .. dont they have snow plows in London ?

02.02.2009 General No Comments

Pizza !!

Monday, January 26th, 2009

One of my favorite eateries here in London is this pizza place chain called “Pizza Express”.

While it’s a chain, their quality is excellent, and the price is OK, me and Everaldo got hooked to their Achovies Pizza, so tonight we braved the mild weather outside on a 15 minute wait for a table

… It’s worthed

26.01.2009 General No Comments

Yummy

Sunday, January 18th, 2009

I’m soo in the mood for cheap out of a styrophome cup noodles… No idea why

So let’s see if it tastes as good as I remember

18.01.2009 General No Comments

Gym hunting

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

Tonight I went Gym hunting with Everaldo

We visited the two local clubs (In Canary Wharf), the Reebok Club and the LA Fitness.

LA Fitness was 55£ a month, but it locked you in a 12 month contract, Reebok is a wooping 95£ (no contract), in paper the LA club was a clear winner. … Until you visit both that is.

Let me put it this way, the Mens bathroom (they would not let me in the girls bathroom) on the Reebok Club was about the size of the entire LA Club, we felt the 55£ that LA asked was expensive, but the 95£ on Reebok was actually good value.

I did ask on both clubs if I joined in, and just pay the fee, never show up, and by just being a member I would loose weight .. Sadly the answer on both was no :-/

13.01.2009 General 2 Comments

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