20th September 2003, lunch time | Comments (1)
I am not easily scared by the advance of time. I don’t spend my days huddled in dark corners thinking Good God, I’m 27, I should have a house, car, wife and baby by now!
— these things will happen with time, and I may be better off for the wait.
In fact, everything in my life seems to have worked out for the best with little effort on my part. I’ve said this from an early age; I certainly am a lucky boy.
However, there are certain things that will, well, not exactly shake one’s confidence in the “everything will turn out alright” philosophy, but rather make you wish the damn thing would hurry up and kick in with some big results. One of these events is your brother turning 30 (and, incidentally, having a house, car, wife and baby).
Today is such a day.
Happy birthday, Al.
Damn you, you old bugger.
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The image displayed above is a 1600 pixel-wide panoramic view from the top of my parents’ house in Dorset, England. The system uses an XML weather feed from their local airbase to provide an up-to-the-minute graphical representation of the current weather, moon, and daylight conditions at their house. It's pretty cool, really.
You can read more about the panorama, and how it was created, in the Colophon; or you can select an option from below and view detailed weather information for Dorset, or for San Francisco (where I currently live).