After many years of neglect, I’ve gone back to learning to play the guitar. Back in school it was an acoustic guitar. Today it’s an electric guitar…in this case an Epiphone Les Paul Standard Plus Top partnered to a 15W Marshall amp. Anyway…looking good but plenty of practice and hard work required. But it’s fun [...]
Thanks once again to the eagle eyes of DC’s Improbable Science, here is his article on the sham degrees that Westminster University is awarding. As DC goes on to explain, this isn’t the only university that is involved in such shambolic practices. And this isn’t just the abuse of science’s good name. I’d call it rape. I bet [...]
Having bought the 80GB Zune 2 MP3 player, I treated myself to the 32GB iPod touch from Kuala Lumpur after all that hard work on the Borneo Orangutan Adventure. The iPod touch is a really sleek design, a joy to hold and look at. However, even with the latest firmware (1.1.4), the iPod touch crashes on [...]
I recently returned from the Borneo Orangutan Adventure. The picures are now online at my website. This was a charity-based adventure trip organised by “Sepilok Orangutan Appeal UK” who work with the Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre in the Sabah district of Malaysian Borneo. The trip had elements of white-water rafting, cycling, trekking, crossing rivers waist-deep, swimming, [...]
