Diversions Manifold

I'm a pretty good sketcher of words and ideas, but a terrible completer of posts: making sure that the ideas make sense and connect properly, trying to get the wording and the feel right, trying to draw conclusions and lessons from whatever experiences or thoughts I am trying to describe; sometimes even deciding which service to post things on (a ridiculous situation, in all honesty) - that's all hard work, and sometimes I just don't feel that I have the energy to complete it. As a result, my pool of drafts begins to overflow and prevents me from really finishing. So, in the spirit of draining the pool and refreshing my perspectives, here's a dump of my most current drafts, cross-posted on Blogger and on my Micro.blog instance! Rethinking which services I should keep, and why, is something for another day. A review of Umberto Eco's The Island of the Day Before created 2023-09-06 This is a most typically Umberto Eco book, of an unknown, uncertain narrator reconstru

This isn't a deeply thought-through review of 2011, merely a list of a few personal highlights from an eventful year for the family... Meeting up with the family in Istanbul to celebrate Dad's birthday Getting married in the Heidelberg Standesamt Having a second daughter (with complications soon thereafter, but all coming good in the end) Enjoying two months' parental leave during an alas rather insipid Heidelberg summer. Coming along with work, particularly the methods side (drawings change system) and DFMEAs. Not travelling too much or too widely, but still experiencing a blown taxi engine in Romania , seeing a little of Naples , Genoa and Maastricht . Losing my passport just before Christmas. Seeing Saab Cars disappear . Enjoying a wonderfully relaxing Christmas and New Year with the family in Ipswich. Roll on 2012!