Personalia (page 2)
Year of The Pig
This is Chinese New Year and that was the Leeds Mecca.
- Originally published: 21 Feb 2007 in Personalia
Family portraits
Just a few family photos taken recently.
- Originally published: 21 Feb 2007 in Personalia
Photos of 8ch and Magna
Photos from a couple of visits in winter 2006-7.
- Originally published: 26 Jan 2007 in Personalia
Heijn Accord signed
How a shopping bag provoked an entire evening’s discussion of European cultural differences.
- Originally published: 18 Dec 2006 in Personalia
WFMU show confirmed
When I had a one-off DJ slot on my favourite radio station WFMU.
- Originally published: 6 Dec 2006 in Personalia
Rounding up to 2006
We’ve been a bit busy lately, what with our jetset lifestyle and everything.
- Originally published: 17 Jan 2006 in Personalia
Nature’s way
My mother has a name for this kind of weather. She calls it “germ weather”. The kind of weather, she says, that you catch colds in. Spare a thought for Gary then, one of the managers at work, who was all set for escaping these miserable climes in favour of the blessed sun of Cancun, …
- Originally published: 24 Oct 2005 in Personalia
Hardware store rudeness
Whilst passing through a hardware store a while ago, my boss noticed that all was not quite well at the stick-on letters rack display.
- Originally published: 20 Oct 2005 in Personalia
Soled out?
The innate dignity of a two-tone brogue has been vigorously ransacked by the current crop of fashion twats.
- Originally published: 4 Oct 2005 in Personalia
Elsewhere on MikePadgett.com …
Muur van Geraardsbergen
“Whosoever crests the the Muur first shall winneth the Ronde” – a summer visit to this hill climb legend.
- Originally published: 4 Aug 2008 in Europe
Hoodoos and balloons
An epic day hike through the hills and valleys of the Göreme Tarihi Milli Parkı, passing through some of the world’s most beautiful and unusual rock scenery.
- Originally published: 25 Sep 2011 in Walking
Ramée Blonde
3/5. Sweet, sweet, sweet blond with soft, fruity aromas that goes particularly well with spicy cuisine.
- Originally published: 22 Jan 2011 in Beer
Louvre
Queues and queue jumpers. Crowds and crowded spaces. There are great art galleries and there’s the Louvre.
- Originally published: 6 Oct 2011 in Museums & Galleries
Toledo
Half an hour or so by train from Madrid’s Atocha station, Toledo is readily accessible to visitors yet remains happily aloof from overdevelopment.
Who you gonna call?
Hello you, I'm Mike Padgett. I'm not a Princeton curator, Knoxville mayoral candidate, Kentuckian pastor or Arizona journalist, I just share the same name. In fact, I am a consultant working in user experience and information design.
I also enjoy travel, concerts, films and walking.
I'm originally from Yorkshire, England but nowadays I live in Belgium. My current favourite Belgian beer is Black Albert.
Shameless self-promotion
Over a year in the making, Dopeology.org is my latest personal project: a topology of doping in thirty years of European pro road cycling.
I collected information from thousands of sources, then I modelled and published it via a lightweight user interface.