Guinness QR glass
This is genius/awful. I love Guinness, it’s a tasty pint of health and alcohol. I also love gadgets, so you can see while this really appeals to me. Basically it’s … Read More
Category: Blog
My blog and occasional comment on current affairs.
Google Glass
If you are on the internet enough and are up with your virals and memes you have probably seen this picture already: Apparently this picture appeared in the Google … Read More
Drenched Britain struggles through drought
I’m currently in the middle of two 80 hour weeks of mostly nightshifts. Normally this would suck as I have to pass lots of happy people drinking outside pubs on … Read More
Facebook – why do your apps need my details? Why!?
I get a lot of requests on facebook to join groups, play games, take part in a quiz or do something else that will literally waste my life. I nearly … Read More
Belgium and excitement
I know you are probably thinking that I’m going to mock Belgium and call it dull. Well I’m not. I really like Belgium and have been to Ghent and Bruge … Read More
NUKEMAP!
Basically, you set a point on google maps, select a bomb size (from existing nuclear arsenals), then hit detonate. The map then shows things like the initial blast zone, lethal radiation zone, and so forth. You can even programme the kiloton yield yourself.
Map of the Dead
If you are anything like me you will have, (incredibly sensibly,) planned what you are going to do when the inevitable zombie apocalypse occurs.
Pac-man the movie
I just thought I would share this with you. It’s pretty cool. Not brilliant as such but I just like the fact that someone has gone to so much effort … Read More
The slow boat to Luang Prabang. Part Three
Over an hour later, there it was. Luang Prabang at last. A finger of raised land that sticks into the confluence of the mighty Mekong and Nam Khan rivers. I could see temples and bars all along its side high above the river. It looked like the promised land.
The slow boat to Luang Prabang. Part Two.
Our boat was due to leave Huay Xai at 11am and it was hot already. Easily over 30 celsius. Given that we were in Laos I was fairly surprised at the efficiency of the crew and the fact that we left just after 11:30. (I’m not being sarcastic, I have been to Laos before and timetables are like indecipherable hieroglyphs.) The first couple of hours you cruise down the Mekong with Laos on your left and Thailand on your right. The scenery is pretty with the occasional concrete or wooden village on each side of the low banks.
The slow boat to Luang Prabang. Part One.
Our journey began in the mountains an hour outside of Chiang Rai, Thailand. My group consisted of myself, my wife Nim, my mother-in-law (Nim’s mum), her friend, a guide (who … Read More
Retirement in two years!
I turn 40 in a couple of months and apart from the uncontrolled and unmanly weeping I intend to do on the fateful day of the digit change, the rest of my year and those that follow will be epic.
Hello from Luang Prabang
Dear wordofward readers, I am now in the stunningly glorious Luang Prabang in the equally stunning and glorious country of Laos. It is astoundingly beautiful here. Luang Prabang is a … Read More
It’s freezing! (Damn airconditioning.)
Dear reader, In case you are wondering why I haven’t replied to your messages, answered your calls,let the milk pile up, and generally not write much recently, it is because … Read More
Scientists dig to underwater Lost World
This is the stuff of classic Science Fiction. Except it’s real. 13,000 feet below the Antarctic ice sheets lies Lake Vostok – the third largest lake by volume on the … Read More
Scottish iPhone 4s
I wrote recently about some pranksters reprogramming an iPhone 4s in a shop so that it swore at a kid. It was pretty damn funny. I then talked about Siri … Read More
Dogs bark the Star Wars theme
This is genius! Not much more to add really. I saw this on some site or other and thought I would share it. Enjoy. http://youtu.be/6ntDYjS0Y3w
It’s called an Americano
What follows is a pointless rant about coffee. I wrote it yesterday while hopped up on caffeine. I’m writing this in a coffeeshop and quite frankly it sucks. First of … Read More
Blood and rice crazed Chinese scientists create Blood Rice
Well, China is up to mad-science-that-looks-cool-but-suspicious-from-space yet again. I previously wrote about the huge but weird things they are building in the desert here. (If you missed it, check it … Read More
Doomsday clock set one minute nearer Doom
We’re all doomed! On the 10th of January 2012 the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists (acronym is BAS but BLAMS would be better) moved the Doomsday clock from 6 minutes to … Read More