Author: mike

This is right up there with ‘we had to destroy the village in order to save it‘. Some rebels blow up a US vehicle in Baghdad. Afterwards, some pretty desperate people are swarming over...

I wish I got sweets every time I had a poo.

SO it was my first day back in school. In the 500-odd freshie Chemistry class this morning I was the oldest person by far. I bet they thought I was working for “The Man”....

So I read that peace has broken out in Iraq. Colin Powell, of course, is claiming that the tactically-effective-yet-politically-counter-productive warfare seige by US troops was the clincher. This is far from a victory, however,...

Finally moved into our little apartment in New York. After several months on the road and effectively homeless migrants, this comes as a great relief. Driving a huge U-Haul truck round and round Manhattan...

I recall reading Asterix in Britain, where the Romans managed to conquer England, apparently, by the clever strategy of only attacking the Britons while they were taking tea. Imagine my surprise, then, when I...

Back from Belize (old British Honduras) and am still successfully married. Despite repeated application of SPF 50 creams still got a tan, which is annoying. Saw lots of crazy fish and astounding Mayan city...

Hot. Lots of fish. Big fish. And coconuts. Finally cracked open a random coconut and feasted wildly on its raw untamed flesh. A bit rangy. So much for childhood dreams.

Just finished driving 3,900 km (2,400 miles)  from San Francisco to Sylvania. Left on Wednesday, arrived today. Drove through three time zones. Saw lots of landscape. I now have a visceral feel for how wide...

Well, in preparation for the big move, I bought 4 250GB drives, two of these external firewire dual cases, did the EnableDynamicConversionFor1394 trick, and rigged up a ~1TB hard drive near-line backup. The sad...