emuu.net by michael werneburg

hello, world

I don't do Facebook, I do emuu.net. Welcome to it.

I've got something to say

I like to build things, take photos, and write about ideas and experiences. So in '98 I built a website that reflects my interests. I've since written about living in Australia and Japan, writing a sci-fi novel, marrying the girl of my dreams, and raising a couple of healthy but lunatic kids. It's been a blast. Nowadays I find myself writing about risk management, which is what I do for a living; but I don't do that here.

If you're a member of the family you can see the kids' website here.

colophon

I named this website emuu.net after my initials, em and double-u. I told the story of its history in my journal when I realized that fifteen years had passed. I built the content management system that runs this site, I designed the two-layer software scheme that provides the performance and security.

reader comments

Hey - I was just checking out your photography. You have a real talent there. Some of those pictures are very interesting. (Cute kids too). I just re-tooled my music studio. It's like going from Frankensteins's lab to a alien base on the moon. It's friggen' cosmic!

Kevin Atwood

2010.02.17

Thanks for that, Kevin! Good to hear that you're still working in (and on) the home studio.

We've just launched our business, by the way (see link in upper-right).

-Michael

Just popping in to say hi, and to have a bit of a look around (looks like I could be looking a while).

AdelaideBen

2011.07.29

Welcome!

-Michael

Hi Michael. It's been a while.....

I hope you are doing great and you are happy in Japan. Good luck ,

Margaret

Margaret

2011.11.07

Hello, Margaret! Thanks for writing.

I'm back in Canada as of this January. We came back after two grueling years of the economic downturn in that country. Happily, it was about two months before the earthquake, tsunami, and the incident at the nuclear power plant.

How's everything on the west coast? I see the B&B's still on the go. 8)

-Michael

wow. I'll bet he will remember it, too.

mom

2012.08.19

This morning he was talking about a time that you and he and I and his mum went for a walk in a tunnel in a forest. After asking him a few more questions I think we're pretty sure that he was talking about the bamboo forest in Kyoto. When he was about nine months old. Does that make any sense at all?

-Michael

this is pretty after the fact but it just came to my attention that there was a hello kitty hell website. i started reading comments and saw yours wondering if the canadian really made the hello kitty combat patch on his fatigues. i can assure you he did because i am his sister and i heard about it and saw pics of it back then!! just the irreverent family humour coming thru! there are only 2 patches and he was in afghanistan at the time. i was amused to see all sorts of kitty sacriliges on the website!! long live a warped sense of humour!! :) Chuckling Canuck

kat (not kitty!!)

2012.11.23

Good to know! Thanks for taking the time to write.

Is your brother back in Canada?

-Michael

Michael,

Thanks much for the shitlist!

Spammers are the devil's spawn.

James

2013.10.22

Can't say it's been a pleasure to build, but I'm glad you found it useful James.

-Michael

I have some question relating to jewelry photography and I was wondering if you might be kind enough to provide some insight.

The article you wrote was great but there are still some question left unanswered

Thank you

Tony

2014.12.31

Happy new year, Tony. I'm not sure that there's a lot more I can add about photographing jewelry, but what would you like to know?

-Michael

Michael -

How does one get off your "shitlist"? The IP address of our car club's website and listserver (zmgna.org at xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) appears on your shitlist. I don't know how or why it got there, but we are having random problems with our members not being able to get messages, and as far as I can determine, your list is the only SPAM list that includes our IP.

Chris Kotting

2015.06.29

Hi! You've just been removed from my list, but I know that others have picked mine up over the years and may still be doing so. Moreover, if you got on my list by spam being sent to my little domain, my guess is the IP was used for sending a spam to others. There are a wide number of blacklists out there.

e.g.

http://www.selectrealsecurity.com/public-block-lists

That said, I've had a look at the following site, your IP came up clean.

http://whatismyipaddress.com/blacklist-check

No response from this one, but the lists look like the real deal, you might check each individually.

http://www.dnsqueries.com/en/check_banned_ip.php

P.S. You're the first person to ever write to have an IP removed.

-Michael

Hi, My husband is a Permanent Resident in Canada and were both filipinos. He sponsored me and submitted the application in CIC Mississauga. Is that what you mean inland? I:m currently in the Philippines waiting for the email of CIC since my husband submitted it last Sept 30, 2015. How long it would take to wait for there update regatding this?regarding

ANGELIE

2015.11.24

It's been almost five years, but I believe that if you filed through Mississauga, you're in the outland process. The CIC website has good figures on the wait times by country.

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/times/perm/fc-spouses.asp

As of today, that's 17 months, but that's after the "64 day" first setp (see the link near the top of the page).

You did the right thing by choosing the outland process. The inland process has a total of 27 months. And if your application is denied, you're finished!

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/times/perm-fc.asp

All the best with your application Angelie.

-Michael

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rand()m quote (In which I leave the final word to someone else.)

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

-Abraham Lincoln

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