From the Friday twitter meme #songsincode:
I’ve been preoccupied lately with the support of a very special personal release. July 7th 2009 our son Liam was born. He is a tiny baby (44cm, 2310 grams at delivery), but growing healthily. As any parent will attest to, it is a lot of hard but rewarding work. Even though Liam is still no programmer—he doesn’t (yet) transform coffee into code, he is getting the basics of transforming warm liquids (milk) into other stuff (full diapers).
Liam sucking on God's gift to new parents: the pinky
So if I don’t answer your comments, emails or other pings, don’t feel offended: I just don’t have time to even read your messages because the next diaper needs changing.
Today would have marked Maurice’s 30th birthday, if it weren’t for that unfortunate accident almost a year ago. It is times like these when you remember the loss of a valued friend more so than normally. No more sharing of cake, taunting the additional year and celebrating life.
My iCal notified me yesterday of Maurice’s upcoming birthday, and today again. It will keep on doing that next year, and the year after that…
Maurice you are sorely missed. My thoughts are with you and Michel and your family. Where ever you are, happy birthday!
Sometimes when you feel down and let down by humanity you need to find something to cheer you up. For some reason seeing that the whole world can be united with a simple stupid dance does that for me. “Where the hell is Matt” (site currently down) is a long running internet fad that still inspires a lot of people around the world. Forget about all the stuff that is wrong in your life for just a couple of minutes and see that all is not that bad:
Of course, one might argue that one guy flying around the globe giving a bad dance performance at each location is exactly what is wrong with this world. However, I’m giving this guy the benefit of the doubt: seeing all those people flocking to dance with him and be part of a global culture is a positive energy in our universe. Instant karma happiness.