I'm about to read Robert Fisk's "Great War of Civilisation", but I'm reminded of one of my favourite quotes by Kahlil Gibran, and I thought I'd share it with everyone:
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http://brokenkode.com/pity-the-nation
I can finally start talking about my sabbatical, as last night was the first time I felt slightly restless, which basically means that I'm calm and my brain isn't being ...
http://brokenkode.com/sabbatical
Although not an immense milestone by most blogs estimation (especially the professional blogs which pay you by the post), I think 1300 posts on 'Kode is a significant achievement to ...
http://brokenkode.com/one-thousand-three-hundred
Thought I'd write down a list of all the areas that this site still needs work on. This is for my own personal use which I'll be checking back on ...
http://brokenkode.com/housekeeping
Been a while since I've written anything significant on the site, but alas I've been busy with the task of creating Aitus Moralis. The big significance is that after nearly ...
http://brokenkode.com/muse
Life can sometimes feel like one big massive MISSED opportunity. Currently that's all I can think about. Everything that I've wanted to do, everything I've wanted to have, everything I've ...
http://brokenkode.com/missed
I seem to always reread Sidekicks by J.Torres and Takeshi Miyazawa whenever I come back to Greece. It's such a well put together book, which I find a crime that ...
http://brokenkode.com/sidekicks
The strangest thing has happened after watching Quentin Tarantino's latest teaser trailer for his forthcoming movie 'Inglorious Basterds', he's made me excited about writing again.
How can a ...
http://brokenkode.com/writer-block
The problem is that 2008 lacked focus for these areas, so it's time to provide them with a slight bit of structure. I doubt I'll be able to meet these ...
http://brokenkode.com/focus
5 years ago today, I sat in my room and decided to start blogging, and what an amazing 5 years it's been - here's to many more years of online ...
http://brokenkode.com/5-years
Where the hell did a year go? The general consensus I've established from people close to me and others not so close to me is that this year has been ...
http://brokenkode.com/2008-in-review
Six years ago I went to my dentist in Athens, where she told me that I was probably going to be needing to take my wisdom teeth out. Now obviously ...
http://brokenkode.com/wisdom
Broken Kode has finally reached the 1000 posts milestone. It's taken nearly 5 years to get to this stage (I'll be celebrating 5 years of the 'Kode in January) and ...
http://brokenkode.com/breaking-the-1000
Clearly I've gotten back into blogging again, October 2008 was a bit of a record in that I posted on this site 52 times. What's even more amusing is that ...
http://brokenkode.com/52
Or so Paul Boutin will lead you to believe from the latest issue of Wired. In what is clearly blog-bait, Paul does raise some interesting points although I don't think ...
http://brokenkode.com/blogging-is-dead
So today Morwenna and I went to Regent's Park for lunch (this year's autumn has been beyond awesome) and while we're sitting there in Morwenna's typical snide way notices a ...
http://brokenkode.com/running-blind
My focus in the last couple of months has shifted. This is probably the longest I've not been creative in the traditional sense of how I would describe being creative. ...
http://brokenkode.com/mission
Interesting article with Terry Hill (chairman of the company I have been working for the past 6 years). The interviewer has tried to capture some of the values, ethos and ...
http://brokenkode.com/terry-hill-interview
See those last 4 letters at the end? Yeah got my confirmation from the IET that my application was accepted for Chartered Engineering status. Those 4 letters are the culmination ...
http://brokenkode.com/khaled-abou-alfa-meng-ceng
Oh my that is a first. First time in 5 years of blogging that I don't actually say anything for an entire month. I've been busy...if you've seen me in ...
http://brokenkode.com/shhhhhh
Found this pretty cool calculator at the WWF site. I'm acting like I need 2.1 Earths to support us, you?
Probably been around for a while, but I've never actually ...
http://brokenkode.com/carbon-footprint
Nothing new to add to the general conversation of redesigned website to be honest just that this is what has been going on with my thought process lately (ok from ...
http://brokenkode.com/evolution-not-revolution
I was thinking about this today and basically, blogging involves removing the additional thoughts that are in your head that take up valuable space. Things that you should think about ...
http://brokenkode.com/create-something
To the internet. So last week we were offline at casa Khaled. Yes, that's right, no net access whatsoever. At first I've got to admit that I was REALLY angry. ...
http://brokenkode.com/im-an-addict
It's been a real eye opening month so far. One of the things that I made sure I did this year was spend more time LIVING. Towards the end of ...
http://brokenkode.com/priorities-2
Now see that's fucking weird. I was having a pretty rough Tuesday at work, so we went out for a couple of drinks after work. I work in Mornington Crescent, ...
http://brokenkode.com/camden-fire
The Chicago Spire by Santiago Calatrava. It's not a secret that he's my favourite contemporary architect at the moment. Good little promotional website. The thing is though listening to the ...
http://brokenkode.com/chicago-spire
So yesterday I finally saw a celebrity I actually gave two shits about seeing. I creator who's work I've actually enjoyed greatly. We went for a few drinks in Belsize ...
http://brokenkode.com/tim-helena
I know I really shouldn't be excited about this, but the new Star Trek teaser (directed by JJ.Abrams) does look pretty awesome even for a teaser dammit
http://brokenkode.com/abrams-star-trek
This weekend I've decided to finally get down to completely my chartership forms. For those in the dark, part of a professional engineer's life (and I'm not talking about your ...
http://brokenkode.com/chartership-the-form
Today was the first time I used Awaken from Embraceware. It was a whole new experience for me waking up today to a bit of Soundgarden. Tradiitionally I'm jerked out ...
http://brokenkode.com/awaken-me
Loads and loads of things to write and talk about, especially as this blog is now officially 4 years old today. Got a great deal of exciting things to talk ...
http://brokenkode.com/happy-new-year
It's been a while since i've done something like this, but I can't help myself, i've been sitting on this for months now.
http://brokenkode.com/v7
Oooohhhh right, now I get it.
So my mac mini arrived last week. Three seperate boxes, one for the mini, one for the wireless mighty mouse and another for the ...
http://brokenkode.com/taste-of-osx-part-one
VectorMagic is a free online application that turns your bitmaps into vectors. It's the work of two students at Stanford and I've got to say that it really does work ...
http://brokenkode.com/vectormagic
So I had myself a bit of a Facebook purge today. As Facebook is becoming more and more part of the cultural landscape it's become a bit more important to ...
http://brokenkode.com/the-facebook-question
It's time we all took the word 'average' back. I've been thinking about this (and actually mouthing off about it as well to anyone dumb enough that will listen to ...
http://brokenkode.com/average
Ok seriously that was as fun as getting my head kicked in by a bunch of chunky school girls while being stuck on a roller coaster feeling a bit nauseous ...
http://brokenkode.com/man-flu
I have a much larger (and definitely more indepth) post to write when I get back to the UK, however just wanted to tell everyone that I am no longer ...
http://brokenkode.com/9rules-exit
