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Thursday, September 18, 2003
Happy AnniversarySuze and I have been married for 4 years today. Still very very very very very happily married (if quite tired due to being parents of young kids).
We were married at the Windsor Hotel on a Saturday arvo and then headed off to Chinois in South Yarra for a most magnificent meal and wonderful cake then back to the Windsor for the night.
My memories of the day
- Smelling of garlic because I used 8 cloves of garlic in my yummy pasta the night before
- Going for a run in the morning and having enough nervous energy to do a marathon
- Voting for the liberal party for the one and only time in my life
- Wearing my brand new $300 shoes bought for the wedding
- Waiting in the room we were getting married in (with 50+ guests) with Handel and Bach being played by a string trio.
- Having the music stop and everyone start to wonder why Suzette hasn't turned up 10 mins after everything was going
- Seeing my lovely bride in a magnificent blue dress with cleavage!!!
- Feeling nervous about correctly saying "I will!" (not I do.)
- Kissing my bride
- Getting photos taken at Pellegrini's
- The limo driver's super smooth acceleration and braking while driving to dinner
- The close-up magician who performed for us all while we had pre dinner drinks
- The most wonderful meal
- Jo stressing that the cake was screwed cause the icing had done strange things...she fixed it all and it was Great
- Adam's super short speech ....lucky if it was 10 words
- My great speech ;-) Lots of laughs
- Waking at the Windsor and realising that Melbourne city on a Sunday morning is Boorrrrring.
- My new $300 shoes bought for post wedding :-)
- Going down to Johanna for a peaceful and relaxing honeymoon
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neuronwave is the personal site of Ben Hosken. I am the founder of Flink Labs, a data visualisation studio based in Melbourne. Previously I founded AgentArts, where I developed a recommendations system that we ultimately sold to MSFT.I have two patents, one in Recommendation Systems and one for a datamining algorithm I invented. I have a strong interest in physical computing, emergence, self organising systems, immersive games, bluetooth ad hoc networks and other fun things.
A while ago I built and ran Blog Change Bot - an AOL IM Bot which notified you when blogs you like are updated. I also built IcyPole, a bluetooth based P2P mobile phone app in 2004. With Suzette, I've built Playground Finder - a community contributed site for parents to find playgrounds nearby and while traveling for their kids to play in. Its a "playground" for my social, location, community and mobile interests.
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