With all the places I go and the people I meet, from time-to-time it’s inevitable that I’ll find myself in a situation with food that I “must try”, even though all things being equal, I’d probably rather not.
A few nights ago, I was taken out by some very nice people to a restaurant that […]
I was wandering through Chinatown in Yokohama the other day to kill some time, and a thought occurred to me. This has to be the cleanest, and most expensive, Chinatown in the world.
As an example, a nice lady with a stand in front of one of the many elegant restaurants was selling lychees, which […]
The first manta born in captivity had died. Apparenty, the father abused the baby manta by chasing it around, harassing it and slamming into the little ray, inflicting injuries. No one knows the reason for this behaviour.
Video of the world’s first live birth of a manta in captivity. Healthy baby female, about 1.9 metres across, born at the Churaumi Aquarium in Okinawa, Japan. Video is from a TBS news broadcast. (They appear to have deleted the page with the video)
The video file is 1.7 MB. Click the graphic below and […]
This is a screenshot from cnet news, with an embedded video of Steve Jobs announcing OS X Leopard at WWDC yesterday. The caption for the video reads:
Jobs takes jab at Vista
At the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, CEO Steve Jobs takes a swipe at Microsoft by announcing Leopard is being released in […]
I put together a screen saver with some of the images from my sea lion trip earlier this year. It only works on Macs, so if you’ve got a Mac and would like a sea lion screen saver, right click here to download (4.8 MB file). Just double-click the file to open and install.
One of the things that really gets to me is con artists who try to dupe innocent people by concocting some obscenely stupid story to fool people into spending money on silly (or worse, sometimes harmful) products or services. For some reason, the marine world seems to attract more than its fair share of […]
I communicate with my dog all the time. We make eye contact, use hand (and paw) signals, and even talk to each other.
I know it sounds silly, and many people believe that non-human animals can’t communicate the way we do, but surely anyone who’s ever had a pet dog understands what I mean?
Like […]
With all the travelling and general chaos of life, it took me a while to put together another animated slideshow/ podcast from my recent trip to the Lembeh Strait.
This one is about an octopus I came across early one morning, when a few dive guides and I went exploring relatively undived areas. Four of […]
If you’ve been following my blog for the past month or two, you can see that I’ve stretched the limits of my coding capabilities (actually, I have none) and managed to put together a few podcasts and have them broadcast via Apple iTunes, as well as post them to my blog.
What exactly is a […]
This is an interview I did with a magazine called Nautica in Croatia. How cool is that?!
I don’t know how many people reading this will understand Croatian, but I had to post this anyway. Upon seeing this, one smart a** I know said, “I understand as much as I normally do of your […]
