Tag: nostalgia

Postcard from an old friend

Sixteen years after I won several races on it, my old bike is still working hard for someone.

Originally published: 22 Aug 2010 in Personalia

As Time Pedals By

Meeting up with some old friends from the cycling days.

Originally published: 30 Oct 2007 in Personalia

Malèna

Tornatore’s poetic, hormonal paean to the youthful worship of a fallen goddess.

Originally published: 29 May 2007 in Film

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Maisons de maître (and other buildings)

Whilst in between jobs after moving to Brussels, I took time to learn the communes and enjoy the architecture.

Invasion postponed due to fog

Folk have fought violently over this strip of coastline for centuries but with such thick fogs, one wonders how.

  • Originally published: 9 Apr 2009 in Europe

Hagia Sophia

One of the oldest churches in the world, the Hagia Sophia has survived invasions, conversions and earthquakes since it was finished in 537AD.

Zwartboek (Black Book)

Black is back: a welcome return to form for Verhoeven.

  • Originally published: 26 Jan 2007 in Film

The Queen

Comes highly recommended to even the hardest republicans.

  • Originally published: 27 Feb 2007 in Film

Who you gonna call?

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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.

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Dopeology.org

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.

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