As with New Year, I use my Birthday – which is happily situated in the middle of the year – as a time to reflect on things past, and things future: What have I achieved? How is my health? Where have I been? Where will I go? Am I happy? Those and more besides, I’m …
I am a big fan of Dan and Ian’s Lifestyle Business Podcasts, and one of their recent topics was on the subject of ‘the ideal place to live and work’; Dan is very keen on the idea of living in Bali, and good luck to him, it is a great little island. Despite living for …
This is just a quick post aimed at those using mobile phones in Thailand. Unless you are fluent in Thai script it is difficult to understand the many different payment packages that are available, and talking to the sales people is a bit like banging your head against a brick wall. Anyway when I was …
For some reason wordpress decided to only publish half of my last blog post (I really do hate Content Management Systems). So here is a continuation of the post from Langzhong and Chengdu. I cannot be bothered to write it all again, other to say that I had a fantastic time in both places, and …
I went to the BBC site this morning and I got a service not available message. My second thoughts were that the Conservatives have only been in power for two days, how did they manage to close down the BBC so soon. My third thoughts were that the BBC was being blocked in Thailand due …
As I make my living online and spend my time travelling I tend to move around like I’m dancing the tango (slow slow quick quick slow). I tend to travel to a lot of places in a couple of months (last time was Cambodia, Vietnam, China and Malaysia) and then spend a few months at …
Greetings from Vietnam 🙂 I thought it was about time to catch up with some of the places that I have been to in the last few months, and as a picture is worth a 1000 words, and I have 4 pictures, then this post is worth 4000 words, how cool is that? I hardly …
It is not often that I give praise to a drug company, but I will today. Glaxo Welcome Smith Kline (lot’s of merging in the drugs industry) has announced that it is making their database of 13,500 chemicals that have been shown to act against the plasmodium parasite (which causes malaria) publicly available. It is …
You can get anything on youtube – have a search for Noddy has sex with Enid blyton in the Noddymobile, I’m sure that there will be some sort of result: No guarantee, I’ve never searched for it myself. But anyway, there has definitely been cases of hard core sex, and drug use, fights and deaths …
It was the FIFA world cup draw a couple of days ago. So I finally got to find out who is playing in the matches that I have tickets for in Cape town. They are: 1. Uruguay – France, both these teams struggled to qualify for the world cup and required play off wins to …