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.
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 October 25th, 2005 |  Owen“This is what the inherent failure of Wikipedia is. It’s that there’s a small set of content generators, a massive amount of wonks and twiddlers, and then a heaping amount of procedural whackjobs. And the mass of triddlers and procedural whackjobs means that the content generators stop being so and have to become content defenders..”
From a ‘readers letters‘ article in The Register, which at least, has an editor.
October 20th, 2005 | Owen They took her and threw her in a canal.
Words fail me, only emptyness remains.
October 18th, 2005 | Owen So, I made it. 21.3 Km and I only walked when I was taking on water. I did the Amsterdam half marathon in 2 hours, 13 minutes exactly, I didn’t come last!
It sure took it out of me, the last five Km were very, very hard, my legs and knees were giving me a lot of problems and I lost quite a bit of time in the final stage, but I didn’t walk!
My friend Kevin did the whole marathon in 3h53m, which was a personal best for him, and his wife Lucy also broke her best in the half marathon with 2h22m. We had a grand weekend 
You can see my results for yourself on the Uitslagen site, simply enter my startnumber, 15291 and you’ll get the result.
October 14th, 2005 | Owen Not quite, in fact, I’m only half a marathon man..
I’ll be running the Amsterdam Half Marathon as number 15291, and I expect you all to come and watch me 
Who won the first marathon in Amsterdam? a history lesson..
“ On 5 August 1928 Boughèra Mohamed El Ouafi won the Amsterdam Olympic marathon, finishing in 2.32.57. ..While the time run by El Ouafi, whose coach gave him ten guilders and told him to ‘go and have a good time in Amsterdam’, is no longer cause for commotion, the marathon phenomenon still appeals to millions of people.“
October 12th, 2005 | Owen The current homeland security level is:
This sort of stuff makes me laugh, even if it’s just a trafic generator for geekandproud.net. Shame that Big Bird does not appear there too..
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