Hi:

This is the website for Owen Carter, a British guy who has been living in Amsterdam for the last 11 years.

I'm afraid there is nothing earth-shattering here, no solutions for World Peace, no cures for peoples ills.. Just a few of my photos and ramblings.

Ding-Dong! Campbell’s Gone!

About time too, but the spin wil doubtless continue anabated.

New Contract

I’m working for Philips Digital Networks, south of Eindhoven. I’ll probably be living in a B-n-B during the week.

Jabber Away!

I’ve got a Jabber IM/Chat account now! try easytarget.me.uk@sourcecode.de in any jabber client (I Use Gaim because it’s Open Source). Please note that that is not an email-address!
My current status in sourcecode.de is:Jabber Indicator from easytarget.me.uk@sourcecode.de

And Now for Something Different

Classic tale..

Feeling Partisan?

“Oh, I’ve said for years that ideology is a mental illness that simply has yet to be recognized as such my the mental health community.
“I had the epiphany in 1995 after reading a book on criminal profiling (“Mindhunter” by John Douglas- highly recommended), and then turning on a Sunday morning political wonk show. I realized there was little to no difference in the thought processes between a hard core ideologe and a serial killer. They both have minds that actively remanufacture reality as it occurs around them. It’s like they have built little mini-Matrixes in their heads. They’ve pulled to wool down over their own eyes. I’m going to write a my own book on it when I retire.”

Yep.. Seems correct to me. Seen on /.

Urban Legends?

Windows Update is -not- running on Linux.. Though it would have been cute if it was.

Does beer make you attractive?

When I’m drunk I get plenty of women. It’s sorta funny how I can only find thier ugly roomates when I wake up though. Seen on /.

Terschelling is nice

I just went there, and had a great little camping holiday.

How far will you go?

To make a stand against things that are wrong with our world?

They call it a ‘model’ plane..

But it just flew the Atlantic Ocean! VERY cool, I’m in awe of these guy’s.

This took my fancy.

To say [that] Slashdot is about gardening when Slashdot is really about obsessive compulsive, autistic, freaks trying to support little people against the establishment, and worshiping at the bitter chalice of technology, all while chanting monty python lyrics, well the simplifcation is fun. ;)
Seen on Slashdot, and really, I can’t argue with it.

Highly unequal societies have a habit of falling apart.

Well said.
More than 100 years ago, business guru JP Morgan said no company should have a differential between highest paid and lowest paid greater than 10. He thought that enough to create motivation. The Royal Navy, for example, has had a de facto differential of eight.