As i read my newspaper on the train this morning, with the Cheshire countryside slipping past, reading about the hope and joy being expressed by ordinary Americas for what might come next, you made me quietly and briefly cry.
Tagged Politics USAThis is obviously some cunning Al-Qaeda weapon designed to wreck western industrial society. It must be stopped at all costs.
(Via Eric Gunnerson)
I’ve just updated this blog to Wordpress 2.5.1. The theme that I’m using doesn’t seem to want to use any of the new gadgets, but I’ve had enough of dicing with death for one night. Expect some cosmetic changes soon…
It’s now two weeks since I get back from a very enjoyable week spent backpacking in the Scottish Highlands, and a blog post is long overdue.
I walked from Shiel Bridge to Glenfinnan by way of Inverie in Knoydart, a distance of just over a hundred miles in six days, and passed through some amazing landscapes. [...]
Four years and one month after the ‘liberation‘ of Iraq, the Guardian reports on the end of the sad story of Rand and Leila Hussein.
While I have no doubt that many Iraqis find ‘honour killing’ repugnant, and it is dangerous to generalise these events to an entire country, its clear that Iraq has a long [...]
Congratulations to my sister Helen, who completed her first Iron Man yesterday at Lanzarote in the Canary Islands. She swam 3.8 km, cycled 180 km, and then ran a marathon (42.2 km) back to back. An awesome achievement – well done Helen!
Three books. One great, one okayish, and one unfinishable.
I have finally finished Matter, the latest work from Iain M Banks. This is his first science fiction work in about three years. This is not a great book, but it is okay.
Banks (with and without the M) is one of my all-time favourite authors. I picked-up [...]
I’ve spent most of the day coding and listening to a very cool live audio feed from below the Antarctic Ekström ice shelf. Its very ambient and spacey, and has really helped keep me in the zone today – just as well as I have a major release due to be pushed to our servers [...]
Well, its been a while…
By way of breaking cover, and via dave Faber’s IP list, here is something rather wonderful. Its a very smart flash animation showing 150,000 years of human migration across the planet – from our origins in East-central Africa to the ‘present’ of the last few thousand years.
Although I am familiar with [...]
This is a test of creating a blog entry via email from my phone.