While over in California this month we saw some rather interesting things. Thought I would share them.
..can you buy 4 Litres of wine for less than $8
..can you buy a sandwich bigger than your head
..can you buy weed from a doctor
..can you drive to the shops in a Monster Truck
..can you buy gifts and guns in the same shop
.. well California actually but im just listening to abit of Prodigy so I thought it appropriate.
Was over for just over two weeks, hired a car with Toni and went-a-road-trippin. First few days were down the coast from San Francisco down the Big Sur to LA. Then from LA accross to Vegas, then all the way back again.
Apart from a parking ticket (who knew you have to park in the same direction traffic is flowing?!) everything went pretty smooth. Toni is still over there, will be for the next 6 weeks, hitting the research with the very clever physics bods over at Berkly University.
As usual the holiday snaps can be found on my Picassa Web Albums page, but here are some highlights:
Well, this is just incredible, I dont think in my lifetime I have EVER seen so much snow in the UK letalone the city where it NEVER snows, Manchester.
This picture from a work colleague illustrates just quite how much fell over night:
Also the snow is totally perfect for building snow women!
And its STILL snowing! I just took this one out the office window:
Its incredible, snow just seems to bring out some really primal aspect out in me, so excited 
Well after the thieving of my bike a few weeks ago I was offered a new bike as replacement by the insurance company, a Kona Shred, another dirt bike.
And here it is:
Doesnt it look mean?
I dont really need a dirt bike as im not exactly going off road in the centre of Manchester so I had a half-hearted go of selling it on ebay.
In the end I have decided that ill keep it as it is very shiney and im abit of a magpie 
Well kind of.. We got our very pretty little tree up today:
Im all hot and itchy now, so it better be bloody staying up till June.
Wow this is a real blast from the past. Photos from my trip to America just surfaced on Facebook, tagged by one of the other lads that went Jakob. Some of them are great, so I grabbed em and chucked them on my picassa.
Ahh some real memories here..
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Well im finally back in Manchester after my little trip to the south of France. Had a splendid time eating, drinking and working on my tan. We also went to a wedding of two friends on the last couple of days.
I thoroughly enjoyed myself, but now im back im looking forward to getting stuck in to my new job starting Monday (more coming on that) and finishing off some of my existing projects (BlastWave, WorldsBestFlashGames) so I can finally get stuck into some iPhone dev!
As per usual I have uploaded the pictures and videos to my picassa account, but here are some highlights:
Yarr’ me old sea dogs. I have just returned from a grand voyage to the eastern Canadian territories known as Nova Scotia. There myself and me old sea cappin’ red beard rum went-a-hiking and campin’ around the Maritimes.
And here be the tale of me epic journeyYARR!
Michael is a Professional Flash Developer currently based in Manchester UK. His passion is all things programming, particularly Games and Particle Systems.