For a while now, Daniel, Mark, Marcia and I have been training for the Oxfam Trailwalker, a 100km walk to be completed in 48 hours(!). We have a target of $1000 to raise between the four of us, and just as with the walk itself, there is still have a long way to go.
If you are willing and able to give, please do so at our online donation page.
Much appreciated.
Honestly, what the fuck?
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I drafted a fairly long and boring post about this, but it boils down to this:
1. I’m planning on attempting the Gold Coast Marathon in July this year; and
2. I’m announcing it here in order to make myself commit to it.
Wish me luck.
I recently came across pipl, the “people search engine”, courtesy of a ReadWriteWeb article. Despite the cutesy, slightly chunderous, intentional-mispelling-as-branding name, it was an experience.
Like many, I’m incredibly self-involved, so the first person I looked up (“pipled”? – ugh!) was myself. Once you get past the all the false positives (“Taylor Dayne may be the greatest musical artist of all time”), it turns out that, yes, it found stuff about me that even I don’t bother remembering any more.
For example, I was a sad little man in university, posting meaningless little one-liners to aus.tv newsgroups. I suspect I was just trying to show off the “awesome” signature that I appended to everything.
On the upside, the “Quick Facts” section included the “fact” that I am a direct descendent [sic] of Pai Mei, the bad-ass Kung Fu master out of the Kill Bill movies. Of course, I had some part in putting that notion out there.