Arcade cabinet gets an overhaul

Around 2007, Ilda spotted an busted up arcade cabinet which had been dumped outside our building in Cape Town. I got very excited, ran downstairs in my pajamas and hauled it into our garage, fixed it up as best I could and turned it into a MAME arcade.
In our new place, the machine sits in [...]

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Welcome to Bellevue

Wow, it has been a crazy couple of weeks. We are finally at a state where the house is just needing a couple of tweaks.

We have done a ton of DIY work. We painted two rooms (the study went from dark green to yellow – that took four coats of paint!), replaced locks, replaced lighting [...]

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Still busy with the move

Been busy with home improvement stuff, so no time to blog. But the end is in sight! Just a few more things to go (and now we have the internet, courtesy of Speakeasy).
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Getting ready for the move

Last Wednesday we signed escrow, so this coming Tuesday (the 18th) we are getting the keys, and we will be ready for the big move.

This Saturday we went off to Seattle to buy some goodies for the house. Some of them (wooden spoons, some new plates, that kind of thing) we got as Daiso Japan [...]

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We bought a house

We had planned to move quickly on buying a house when Ilda arrived, but we ended up doing things a little faster than we thought. Ilda arrived on a Wednesday, and by the end of the following Monday, we had looked at 22 places (and countless other ones online). Lucky for us our agent Shelley [...]

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Six months at Microsoft

Today was six months since my orientation. It has been an interesting time. I have been noticing lately that I was able to take on a lot more tasks without any extra help, and that I have started to think security when I look at a design. I learned how to write test and production [...]

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Moving means long weekend

Autumn is slowly slipping into winter. The sun sets a little after five, and the evenings are noticeably cooler.

Winter means birds fly South, but Ildas, fortunately, fly North.
The whole of Exchange is packing up and moving to Building 32 – it is about 5 minutes walk from the current building. I will still [...]

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One month as an immigrant

It is the one month monthniversary of my arrival. So far so good. Since I started work, work has been a big part of my day – in at about 9, out by about 7, play with the bunnies for a while, chat to Ilda online, watch some tv, go to sleep, rinse and repeat.
Work [...]

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What a boomtastic festive season lies ahead

As usual Penny Arcade sums up the dilemma (or in this case multi-lemma) very well (i.e. with a good number of four letter words). Look at all the awesome choices that lie ahead of me this winter season:
1. Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway – the other two BiA games were great, so this one I [...]

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The week in review

Well, the first week is over. I had orientation, seminars, admin, and in the end I got some bugs and even a whole feature assigned to me. All that remains now is for me to be given access to the source tree, set up my build environment, and off I go. Exchange provides you with [...]

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