All Change Please
In which, after a 4 month hiatus the author returns to say he’s moving.
After much waiting, and a fair amount of deciding, I’m heading back to the fabulous land of Canadia. Specifically back to Vancouver. Lower sales tax here I come! Of course I’ll miss the wonders of having taxes included in prices and a cellphone bill that was actually exactly what it was advertised to be, but these are small things, surely.
I head back to Vancouver at the end of the first week in September, hopefully to at least some summery weather. Of which there has been somewhat of a lack here in London.
A handful of things I’ve been up to since I last spoke here:
- Copenhagen - for a work conference, and not a lot else. Rather pleasant harbour though.
- Auckland - for a wedding, and Patrick Day 2008 (where in a wonderful bunch of friends popped up for the weekend).
- Canterbury - for an afternoon of exploration including a brass band, an ice cream and a cathedral.
- Rye - for an afternoon of exploration including a fete, a raft competition and a rather delicious lunch.
- Oxford - for a weekend of fun, Bellville Reunion (which is quite possibly the strangest animated film I’ve ever seen, but was good fun none the less), a chance to play with an interactive whiteboard, and a visit to Woodstock.
- An Osmosoft open source show’n’tell in which I had a rather pleasant chance to catch up with people in person I had met in Brighton for dConstruct and then known only through flickr and twitter.
- Cloud Camp London Something Something, which was a little high level for my liking, and the pizza was cold by the time we broke to eat it. Some of the speakers, however, were fairly entertaining.
So, between now and the 7th of September I need to finish migrating my things back to my Aunt’s flat prior to sorting what things will stay in this country and what will be sorted in to suitcases. I also need to see Kew Gardens, hopefully get up to Ediburgh, and maybe fit in a trip to somewhere else closer to London.
