Chris Garrett’s Personal Blog

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This week has been … um … fun.
Tuesday was our 8th wedding anniversary but Amy was sick so rather than going out for a lovely romantic meal we instead had a takeaway curry.
Still, it was a nice curry and it is always nice to [...]

I have a Canadian birth certificate so wouldn’t need to take this Canadian citizenship test but it is a fun way to see if I deserve it and surprise surprise, I got 80%, I clicked the wrong answer for one question answering “hudsons bay” when I meant to click “fur trade” (”which trade spread across [...]

We just found out who Amy is going to have as a teacher come September and we are not happy. So maybe moving Canada should be back on the agenda. Oh I wish we had the funds right now, it would be great to move to Vancouver but perhaps we should take another look at [...]

A disabled man and a 7-year old boy were attacked by thugs for wearing England soccer shirts. WTF?
BBC NEWS
First Minister Jack McConnell has condemned the attacks on a man and a boy wearing England football shirts. Mr McConnell described the assaults on Ian Smith in Aberdeen and seven-year-old Hugo Clapshaw in Edinburgh as [...]

Aaaah the Commodore Vic-20, the object most responsible for me becoming a fully-fledged geek. The thing that kept me locked in my room programming while other kids were learning social skills (and sometimes other stuff like smoking and the like). And Bill Shatner, Captain Kirk himself - what a pairing! What an ad!
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Watch GWB sing his little heart out to the U2 classic
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Is it me or has the world gone mad? How the $£%^& does a slideshow widget get $1.5million in VC money? WTF are these people on?
Emerging Earth - NetPickle Gets VC Funding
There is a new space in Web 2.0 companies that allows folks to create photo slideshows and upload them to their websites. Predominant [...]

I hated school when I was a kid, worryingly some of the things I see in Amys school remind me over again why I hated it so much. Thankfully Amy right now has good teacher, a decent person who only wants the best for her pupils. Maybe this is because she is too young to [...]

In the war between me and my body, my body is winning or rather my body and I are losing. I am now officially fat (not quite Johnny Vegas … yet) despite losing a stone in weight (my muscle has completely been replaced by flab) and have constant nagging aches and pains. I don’t exercise [...]

Cat Chases Bear Up Tree

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