OK, new year, new start. One of my first resolutions is to get back to my blog and make this a regular thing.

Of course, the observant amongst you will notice that the new year is already two weeks old. I got back yesterday from a vacation in Canada, spending Christmas with my girlfriend's family and the rest of the time ski-ing in the Rockies. One word to describe this trip: COLD. Almost all the time we were in the west the temperature was below -20C. The first day we went ski-ing at Banff the external thermometer in the car read -27C (and we did go ski-ing, albeit well wrapped up). Canada is a really beatiful country, especially the Rockies; hopefully sometime I'll actually get to see it in summer (I've been there three times, all in the winter).

One thing about my three week vacation was the total lack of internet access, which was a choice rather than a necessity. It was actually really nice to be offline for so long and have a chance to do some reading and thinking. I also went to possibly the best exhibition I've ever been to, which was at the art museum in Vancouver. Check out the website at Massive Change.

Let's see how long the resolution lasts.