2010 — 28 September: Tuesday
Well, my lovely Christa may have gone on ahead of me1 but the fact remains that this would have been our 36th anniversary. Amazing.
Christa in her study, mid-1990s
I know the photo predates IBM's Java involvement, because there's no poster on the wall behind her PC. And that's her Philips PC, which predated her first Dell machine. The hair is also a bit of a giveaway :-)
Her smile, however, is completely timeless.
How does one get...
... this fine badge of honour? Click the pic for the story — I promise it does not dump you into the "shrieky weaselly little bourgeois tabloid" that is the Daily Mail...
A new map for Christa
Why shouldn't she have an anniversary present? We both loved maps, and kept the walls of the dining room covered in them for many years. Remember the witty Saul Steinberg view of North America and the world as perceived from New York?
Here's a more-European version. It would have made her giggle, which is something ...
... I always enjoyed doing. There are more fine examples of these "stereotype" maps here.