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Change

Wednesday, September 30, 2009
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Change

“The only unchangeable certainty is that nothing is unchangeable or certain”, so said John F. Kennedy once. Every now and then, one passes through an anniversary of a significant event and is forced to reflect on life, and its many unusual twists and turns. I haven’t lived in Australia (which I still consider “home”) for...
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Reflections on Racing

Sunday, August 9, 2009
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Reflections on Racing

Yesterday was the end of “zomerijs”. Zomerijs is the curious practice of opening the ice track at Heerenveen for three weeks in the middle of summer. Obviously, it is very expensive to refrigerate a 400m track for three weeks in the middle of summer, but this year they did it for five weeks. Why?...
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From One Castle To Another

Monday, June 15, 2009
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From One Castle To Another

Heerenveen The team has recently moved into our latest, and (hopefully) most permanent accommodation yet – flat oranjewoud. This move has caused me to reflect on my recent, rather nomadic existence. So I present a feature article on the various places I have lived in recently. They say that a man’s house is his...
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It changed my life

Thursday, June 4, 2009
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It changed my life

June 4th 1989 is a date that will forever be remembered in infamy in history. It was the day that the Chinese government cracked down violently on the pro-democracy movement began by students, but eventually growing to include a broad cross-section of the population of the world’s most populous people. That day, tanks rolled...
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25 Random Things

Thursday, February 26, 2009
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25 Random Things

This is a facebook meme; one of the few that I took the time to actually do. I thought I would include it on the site because it actually says something about me (not like those “which Bold and the Beautiful character are you?” memes) Rules: Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to...
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So… I’ve been 27 for a week

Friday, December 12, 2008
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So… I’ve been 27 for a week

I thought I’d wait a week so that the fact that I’m older really had time to sink in. How does it feel to be older? Well, it doesn’t feel very different really. I’ve been living in Holland for 59 days training for the 2010 Olympic Games. It’s not easy. As the previous post...
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2007

Monday, December 31, 2007
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I weathered the storm of the previous year and in some good company I was here found to welcome January without a fear My feet finally returned to solid ground from abstract worlds to which my maths had taken me aloft and in many equations drowned Relaxed anew, my mind it hath awakened and...
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