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About Me

"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat." -Theodore Roosevelt

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Tom Waits. Billy Connolly. Stephen Hawking. The SOB who stole my Maths homework from room 5 in 1981.

Books:

To Kill a Mocking Bird. A Brief History of Time. The Elegant Universe. Object Oriented Modeling Techniques (fairly weak character development and not much of a plot, but the most well edited book I have ever read :o)

My Blog

The Isle of Arran

I'm back. Arran was excellent. I managed to get on the official playlist which meant that my money was no good at the bar. Not only this, but a wee guy monitored my progress and brought out refills as...
Posted by kev on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 11:03:00 PST

Cake and Fine Wine

Just visited my favorite wine merchant (Dee Vine Wines in San Francisco) to make a special purchase and pick up 7 months worth of spontaneous, and largely forgotten, internet purchases. I wasn't ...
Posted by kev on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 03:56:00 PST

40 days in the wilderness

Actually, it was only a week in Yosemite. It seems that everybody (else) on the campsite was some sort of iron-man. I overheard one of them talking about a 112 mile bike ride and a 2 1/2 mile swim. Th...
Posted by kev on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 04:09:00 PST