.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; } .flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Rock climbing a 100 foot cliff in the Valley of the Moon on the Mexican border, Imperial County, California. ------ Emailed on the move from Dan's mobile ...

.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; } .flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } ------ Emailed on the move from Dan's mobile ...

Well, firstly, go and read this, because basically I want to steal this idea. No thoughts expressed in this post are original, yet they might lead to something that is. The video iPod, and devices that emulate its function (including, in a large part, your computer) are going to change the way we consume video content, and it's going to rush the convergence of television and the internet even f ...

There's something very elemental in the idea of crawling into the back of a giant, fur-filled cupboard and finding it leads into a magical, timeless world. The sort of feeling, when you read it, that you kind of thought it up yourself when you were a kid, and someone else wrote it down for you. Which I think goes a pretty long way to explaining why a lot of people have a pretty strong connection w ...

I've got a funny old relationship with music. On the one hand I can't live without it, listen to it constantly, get untold amounts of energy and inspiration and enjoyment out of it, and some of my happiest moments are dancing at live gigs. On the other hand...I hate most music. Most music sucks ass. It's a taint, a blight on the audioscape of my surroundings. I can't escape it. It brings me down, ...

Did I never tell you the story of why I stopped reading Harry Potter? Oh, it's a humdinger, check it out: So, being an Engrish teacher and very pleased that Harry Potter made reading 'cool' (and this was particularly odd in Taumarunui, where demonstrating any form of intelligence was usually rewarded with brutality), I decided that, in the interests of keeping my finger on the pulse of popular cu ...

As anyone who reads the Daily Links will know, I'm a huge fan of The Daily Show and its host Jon Stewart (and have been for many years, even back when its host was Craig Kilborn)- it's certainly the best thing on TV at the moment (yes: even better than Lost). Which why I was very pleasantly suprised when my sometimes extremely lovely/othertimes extremely hostile flatmate just showed up and gave me ...

Odd book, this one. It's a "classic", although whether this became true before or after it became famous for being in the pocket of American serial killers whilst they were on gun rampages I am not certain. Despite the fact that it was banned for much of its existence, I got the feeling that because it is an interesting portrayal of American youth, it should perhaps be distributed liberally among ...

Looking back over the films I've reviewed in this rapidly closing year (all 21 of them! That's like two a month. Is that a good thing or a bad thing?), I seriously wonder if any of them is as good as The Constant Gardener, which is uniformly excellent from beginning to end. I can't really tell you much about the plot because the very first thing to happen in the film is an enormous spoiler that I ...

As some of you will recall, I recently contributed the answer to a Star Trek related question which was directly asked of Patrick Stewart during Chris Evans' Radio 2 show. Direct evidence of this question being asked (Patrick, sadly, did not recall) can be listened to here. (I also highly recommend listening to the entire show, which the BBC has archived here). Even more exciting than listening t ...

What I would have been blogging about had I not been doing nanowrimo: saying goodbye to my sister I know in the past I've gone on about how I'm often awed into humble silence when I think about the incredibly talented and wonderful people I've somehow made as friends. As incredible as that is, at least I can say in that I had some power over the situation, and that I somehow sought out such a ...