Fresh off the table
Trying to keep those fingers moving
I am finding myself inventing reasons to not write things on this site, which is crazy given that I spend a decent chunk of money keeping the thing on the Internet, and then recently put a bunch of systems to make it easier to release changes and mind dump the usual level of stupid thoughts on this damn page.
Recent posts
Another step towards world domination
After a solid billion years of considering having this site be automatically deployed, I have finally put the minimum amount of effort in and have now got site updates to automatically roll out through CI/CD. Of course, the actual hard part of updating this site is actually writing content and gathering motivation to actually mind dump something of value to the org file in which all of my articles are written, but at least I can safely say that a lack of updates certainly won't be because I have to run a make target to actually push the changes out!
The secret to learning languages effectively
During my recent travels, I have had some time to think about my life. One of the thoughts I had recently was about what you need to be able to learn another language.
Salsa dancing
I have been studying spanish for a couple of months and I really enjoy it. I am very used to studying Asian languages, so studying European languages is a good change for me. What …
The enemy of perfect is good
A few years ago I put this site together and had this dream that, when I have everything set up just right, I can just open up Emacs and type some stuff into a window and hit a button and everything would just work. It was a time when I imagined that I would spend a small fortune having a DigitalOcean Kubernetes setup because why not and everything would be just like I would if it was a setup for work.
One country down, one to go
As I write this, I am in a cafe in Japan having a cheeky French press coffee in a swanky cafe in Tokyo. I feel like I am not in place without a flat cap and loafers, but I'm enjoying relaxing here and thought its would be a good time to reflect and appreciate the wonderful time that I had in Korea. In my last post, I covered my time in Incheon and Seoul. I went to two more cities, and looking back on the trip I had a really great time in Korea. There were difficulties and the trip was very different to my usual trips as most of it was unplanned and ad hoc, but I went to Korea with the aim of meeting up with my three close Korean friends, and I was able to do that, so the trip for me was a resounding success.
Korea trip
I recently went on a trip to Korea! When I travel, I usually make a plan before I leave my country. However, this time I decided to go to Korea without making a plan because I …
Having a great trip so far
I am almost one week into my 5 (!!) week holiday and so far I am having an absolute blast. Since I usually spend my time worrying about the future and trying to come up with …
Getting active
I am a systems engineer, and I am always sitting down at work, so I don't do much during the day. When I was younger, I used to do more exercise, but now I am lazy. I am a bit fat …
Best trip ever
久し振りですね！ 私は最近旅行で韓国に行きました。 行ったことがなかったですけど、すごく楽しかったので、今後から定期的に行きたいです。 韓国料理がうまくて、韓国人の友だちに会うチャンスが有って、幸せでした。 時間があったら、韓国旅行をすることを勧めます！
Broken computer
While you are in Japan, please fix this computer.
Broken things are annoying!
Work was busy today. My company are using an automated computer provisioning system, but there are some manual steps still involved. Since this system is used to serve my …
Fishy situation
今日の話題は：
I'm just pulling your leg
今日の話題は：
I hate 明太子
If I have to eat mentaiko, I would rather choose to die.
Politeness and sickness are terrible things
Nothing quite makes you feel better after recovering from sickness than doing language exchange and not being able to come up with some relatively basic sentences to describe what you want to say. ><
Weight loss is great
またまた久し振りですね。私はまだ語学を勉強してるけど、最近痩せるために走り始めました。 今までに８キロぐらい痩せました。 一週間に４回走って、昼ごはんは普段はサラダか日本食だから、体重を痩せるのは難しくないと思います。 私は運動することを頑張ってるけど、まだビールを飲んだり、時々お菓子を食べたりします。 走り過ぎたら、筋肉を怪我する可能性があるから、膝につい …
ANZAC Day and Australia Day
ANZAC Day is held on the 25th of April every year, and it's a public holiday in Australia and New Zealand. ANZAC is the name of Australia and New Zealand's army. On the 25th of …
Family time
I'm just going through Korean honorifics at the moment, so please let me know if I have made a mistake.
People make mistakes
These days most of the management at my company are on holiday, so I was very busy today. My colleague made a mistake, our company's website was down for about 5 minutes. I do not …