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Its quite a nice life I must say. The winter, I’m told, is scary and I’m about to face it but I have had winters in Europe before so I’m not too scared. The reasons I moved here after visiting form London for a week are:
Continue reading ‘Living in Berlin’
So I’m in Berlin and things are going well. Have a large unfurnished room on the 1st of May with at least one über cool flatmate (the other to be found in the next few weeks) and a broken arm due to my experimenting with “bicycle catapulting”, a new sport I hope to put my name to. I have also made progress on the social front and have meet many super friendly, young Germans, all busy doing their thing and doing it well, as far as I can tell. Also, they have painted the TV tower at Alexander Platz like a giant pink ‘fussball’ (see photo, thanks to bollin @ Flickr).
Continue reading ‘Nationalism is so last century’
Bought my ticket to Berlin today! Leave Sydney, Australia on the 10th of April at 14:20 and arrive in Berlin on 11th April at 09:20 (via Kuala Lumpur and Amsterdam).
A new start. A new Alexander!
Scrawled - Scrawling my thesis across the world…
Helped out Jamie the other night with his thesis project by doing what I like to call ‘Gorilla Web Development’. In the space of 2 hours I whipped up a page that takes a string of words and allows you to upload images for each word. Two pages of PHP.
Nice and easy and has fun results. Reused my FileUploader and Image class to get the files and resize them with minimum pain.
via revolution my web comrades!
Gather round, gather round and hear the ‘The horrible tale my friend had with eBuyer’
Continue reading ‘The horrible tale of eBuyer’
Rode home today to find that my street had been blockade by the cops and they weren’t letting any one in. The 26 bus that had an attempted bombing goes right past my place. So tonight I’m at Jon and Neridas who live in Camden.
Poor Nerida had a horrible trip home from the city. The bus driver lost it when some people jumped in the back door and he turned off the bus, and then when he turned it on the let the people off he started revving it till people got scared. I guess the bus drivers are a bit stressed at the moment.
Nerida said she’s scared by the bombings. Jon seems indifferent. I’m reminded of the struggle that the rest of the world is going though again. It was very evident in East Timor, with the BBC beamed in via satellite reminding me of the rest of the worlds decadence.
Seems the third world is now making the decadence aware of it via the BBC.
I remember I had a long and ugly debate with Bernard and Sara one night over a couple of bottles of wine. I proposed that with the advent of cheap media devices, and internet community sharing sites, we would not have to rely on the commercial main stream media completely anymore for information on current events. As the media becomes more restricted by the powers that be independent amateur media might be the way forward for democracy.
Examples from the recident London bombing:
Update: Seems I’m not the only one thinking this way.
Bit scary here at the moment. The facts seem to be:
I dropped a friend off at Aldgate East last night and walked passed Liverpool Street just before. The cops dropped by the office, which is near queens park) and said to keep away from the windows and not leave the building.
I ride to work every day now, even though its cold and wet today. I don’t thnk I will be catching the bus or tube for a long time if I can help it. Gess more people might start riding.
Very weird to be in a city targeted for terrorist attack. With the G8 meeting happening in Scotland at the same time and all the shit Bush is saying about ‘pre-Kyoto era’.
Yesterday the olympics, today fear and lothing.
A turbulent day, inside and out.
It snowed yesterday! For a little while.
Thats the one. Man was this guy from another world. Just got into Mexico (City). Not as bad as they say. Thought that I would get taken out between the bus station and the Hostel. It has the second highest crime rate in the world and is also one of the most densly populated urban areas.
NICE.