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Christopher Hitchens – a tribute in pictures and quotes

My small tribute. Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – 2011

Photos from Venice

Spent a few days in Venice over the weekend. The photos are here: http://www.metalvortex.com/images/Italy/ Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – 2011

Photos from Iraq

I’ve recently returned from Iraq and have now had a chance to put some of my travel photos online at: www.metalvortex.com/images/Iraq/ Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – 2011

Afghanistan photos – Part 2

Further to the original batch of photos from Afghanistan, I’ve now posted an additional set at: Afghanistan Part 2 http://www.metalvortex.com/images/Afghanistan%20Part%202/index.html And, of course, the original batch can be found here: Afghanistan http://www.metalvortex.com/images/Afghanistan/index.html Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – 2010

iTunes is Brain Dead

OK, I have an iPad and use iTunes to synch to my Windows Ultimate 64-bit machine; the iPad is a great way to display photos at high resolution in a large format using a portable device. But can you choose to display photos in, say, ascending alphabetical order? No, there are no options for that [...]

iTunes, photos, videos and IE Favorites

As good as iTunes is, in some respects it’s just brain dead. Take the case of synching your photos between a PC and an iPad. I’m running Windows 7 Ultimate (64 bit) and have a number of photos taken over many years and other jpegs of paintings. Quite a number of these are drafts, duplicates [...]

A trip into the heart of Afghanistan during August 2009

Afghanistan? What? Where? You mad?! Most of our travels within the country were through central and northern Afghanistan. The trip was quite exhausting and security concerns increasingly played a part especially during the elections with the risk of rocket attacks, suicide bombs or IEDs. However, I did think that the security forces were over enthusiastic in [...]

Snow in London

Had some snow in London today, 2nd February 2009…the heaviest it’s been for 6 years. London has basically come to a stop with many schools closed and major disruptions and suspensions of the transportation system. Tried to get into work today but failed. Instead, later on in the day, I took a walk in the local [...]

Malaysia Holiday – August 2008

I recently returned from a holiday trip to Malaysia in August 2008. It was a fun trip as I did some cave exploring in Mulu in the Malaysian state of Sarawak in Borneo, and also travelled to other parts of Malaysia such a Kuala Lumpur, Cameron Highlands, Penang Island and Langkawi Island where I attempted a bit of swimming, [...]

New York City! Woohoo!

Just spend a few days (23 May – 27 May) in New York City for a reunion with fellow travellers from the 2007 Antarctica trip. The weather cooperated too! The motley crew consisted mostly of this lot (showing our first tentative steps at building a snowman in Antarctica): Anyway, the views from our host’s apartment were [...]