Owing to dismal weather and it nearly being dark by 3.30pm on Saturday afternoon, I went over to the Tate Modern to check out what was going on. I was a little reserved about going to a museum, as I haven’t been for years, but was completely bowled over and got really into the whole thing. The building itself is amazing and the exhibitions really interesting, so as a result I am now inspired to go and check out more of the museums in London.

Of course the whole experience was then soured a little by the London Transport system letting me down in the way of my train being cancelled on the way home, resulting in me having to sit in the cold for an hour at Liverpool Street station. Oh well, no surprises there then…

No I am not getting married, I am talking about my mood of late. It has been up and down ever since I started working in London again and I am not totally sure what the root cause is, probably a combination of social and environmental determinist factors, i.e. working and being in and around London too much is stressful and ultimately doesn’t provide me with fulfillment.

I was looking back at some pictures yesterday of my World Surf Tour in 2006 and remembering how chilled I felt and how happy was with life in general, it would be nice to get that vibe back. At the moment I’m finding myself getting increasingly despondent with working here and socialising, I find I am getting more aggressive towards strangers, and a little more inward looking as I try to drown out the daily sh*t (he whole rat race to get on the property ladder, the insane cost of living this country has brought on itself), it’s all bullsh*t.

What’s the next step, not sure yet, been trying to figure that one out for some time now, maybe another WST or permanent emigration to somewhere less sh*te, we’ll see… A week in Fuerte’ surfing will sort me out a bit, but I know I’ll slip back into the rut sooner or later on my return to the greyness…

As part of my job as an Information Architect at Crayon I have been looking more and more at user behaviour and web analytics, so as a little experiment I have added Amazon Associate and Google AdSense content to the Hungry Browser weblog with an idea to generate a little revenue (we’ll see). I have also been tracking the traffic to the site with Google Analytics for the past few months.

Just a few pics of some of the lovely sunsets we’ve been having lately. The view from the office really is fantastic. For more pics, check out Flickr…

So it’s official (well it’s been official for a while) that I have a new girlfriend. I met a nice girl called Rosana a few months back. Ironically she is Brazilian (yep still can’t find a decent English girl – haha), and after travelling all that way to Rio and Salvador earlier this year, I actually met a Brazilian who works 2 minutes from my office, world works in strange ways.

Anyway all is going and I am getting a chance to practice my Portuguese quite a bit (I guess that “Teach yourself Portuguese”) book came in handy after all. We will see what happens, early days, but all good, just in time for Christmas, haha!