Party time!

I've always liked throwing parties. I love hosting and I don't mind that I have to be sober for most of the night and that I have to work my ass off to make sure everything is running smoothly. Over the years I learned a thing or two about throwing a good party - and about cleaning dry beer stains.

I never ask for any money for any of the parties I throw. Since I'm not rich enough to buy too much alcohol, I kinda have to guess the amount that will be consumed that night. Because there is nothing worse than an alcohol shortage at a party. Actually, there is nothing worse than an alcohol shortage - full stop.

The happy story of my father and his iPad

Last October we gave my father an iPad, for his birthday. Now my father is a somewhat older than the fathers I know: he's 70. And while I remember (when I was a little boy) that he was still aboard the tech train in the 80's, (ZX spectrum) and even the early 90s (interactive CDs, dialup internet) the rapid acceleration and miniaturization of technology in the late 90s (second and third mouse button, broadband speeds, usb sticks) tossed him overboard and that's when he lost the train. Lately he was, like John McCain, "aware of the internet".