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Be still your beating hearts:


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Why, yes, since you ask, I have been travelling a lot in the last six weeks, even for me. With more to come before the end of the year...


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Hi! It's been an interesting year. Some good stuff: S.'s migraines are essentially gone, as discussed here. Also, I've been formally named CTO of the ~80-person tech consultancy where I've been working for the last mumblemumble years, which seems to be a bigger deal to other people than it is to me. Also, I have become a terrible cliché and have ( Read more... )

My last LJ post was in January, huh? Wow. Well, here, have a few images from the months since:


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I went to Havana. It was sadder than I expected; it's pretty much a picturesque disaster area, where a block from the Prado (Havana's famous promenade) people live in half-collapsed buildings, and on the day I left, down the street from my AirBNB -- yes, that's right! -- people were excitedly queuing to buy tomatoes. Lifestyles seem to mostly range ( Read more... )

Here, have some pictures from the UK and UAE:


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Life advice: if anyone ever offers you an all-expenses-paid press junket to Paris, bite their hand off. Not just because it's an all-expenses-paid week in Paris, although that's obviously nice too; because the whole journalist-on-a-junket experience is so strange and surreal ( Read more... )