Six years (and another anniversary)

I just registered a couple of domain names through the wonderful gandi.net. (If all goes according to plan, this site will become just fjordaan.net soon.)

Filling in the domain expiry date in my calendar, I noticed that 27 March is also my London anniversary. I’ve lived in London exactly 6 years today. I nearly missed the anniversary. I have another hour left to reflect on it.

At the last anniversary, I lazily said I was too busy to reflect. That’s not really the truth. I mull over my circumstances constantly, but now as then, I don’t give myself the time to write down my thoughts. But in the last year, I bought my flat, stayed at the same job, and finally registered a personal domain name.

Ready!!! Memory empty

I walk past this billboard on my way to work every day. The meaningless buzzwords and equally meaningless photographs arranged around that pseudo-religious centerpiece always struck me as almost funny if it wasn’t so depressing. It seemed a relic of an era already past, and I often wondered how it lasted so long on that spot. Last week, I smiled to notice that the electronic display that usually scrolled “Supply chain management” and yet more buzzwords, appeared to be fizzling out.