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A year in review - 2025

It's been over seven years now of running the Damn Blog - for my friends, my family, my loved ones - but most importantly for myself. It's time to write again, to pick up some of the usual threads and see how the world, and my own world, have changed.

A year in review - 2023

As the sixth year of the Damn Blog draws to a close, it's time for yet another Year in Review. I love how predictable this has been, to the point that several people

A year in review - 2022

It's crazy to think this year marks the fifth anniversary of the Damn blog existing. And tradition calls for me putting my thoughts together for my fifth annual review - that of 2022

A year in review - 2021

Ever since I graduated, I've made an effort to gather my thoughts and write about my life at the end of each year passing. In 2018, 2019, and 2020 I was eager to

Guadalajara

And here we are, all reunited after a though day of puzzle solving and international flying as if there was no Covid. But where are the Sploxers? "Guys, there were never any Sploxers"

Sicily

Sure enough, it is the beautiful southern Italy region of Sicily It's almost evening time and we really need to eat some Pizza. It's even better than Beppe of course! Suddendly Radio Italia

Singapore

Yes, indeed that is Singapore's Merlion! The first major global market for Sploxers will be this 1 million-old-people-on-an-island country! They definitely need help and Sploxers are here to bring it! We are greeted

Bluebell Factory

Yes, we're here at the final station of the Bluebell railway in the south of the UK! I wonder why we're here though! Our anonymous benefactor is, well, still silent! But as we

Berlin

Thanks god Franz left us a fabulous cardboard cutout of himself being (in his own words)... Thanks to his hidden message we got to Berlin - his hometown! It feels like we're really

Rotterdam

Oh my god we're back to the Netherlands! It seems the reason Franz didn't join us tonight is because he had to save the Sploxers and move to a safe location! But move

Java

Yes indeed, it got stuck in Java, an island in Indonesia - and from there we cab trace it got shipped to Jakarta! Great job grumpies. It's not the nicest city, But the

SPLOXERS

"Freedom where you want it!" - a voice emerges from the factory! It's the Willy Wonka of Amsterdam - mister Pete VDD! "Guys, I was really impressed with your business acumen during our

Welcome Ab(oar)d!

Hello all grumpies (and pete)! To celebrate us being all together virtually we have been sent this invite from an anonymous person! Whoever it is, it seems to be someone that knows us

A year in review - 2020

Some years feel like a wild struggle to get all the pieces of your life's puzzle into place. Then there are years where everything falls into place, in a single; effortless move. 2020

Notes on the job market

I recently went back into the job market (in the middle of a recession) and found it to be f***ed up enough to deserve some notes from the field. If you're a

A year in review - 2019

It's hard to believe it's been a year already since I wrote my last 'year in review' - yet here we are! In 2019 I wrote 25 full-form Damn Articles, flew 70,000

A year in review - 2018

2018 in review