I’ve had my iPhone for a couple of weeks now, and I love it. Since I’m taking a break from work, I thought I’d jot down the reasons why.
I use the iPhone less as a phone and more as a mini-computer. I expected this, as I’ve never been big on talking on the phone, but [...]
This sign, which I came across this morning in the elevator of a new building in Bangkok, really made me stop and think.
The fact that I was still in a sleep-deprived, semi-conscious haze resulting from an overnight bus ride from Phuket to Bangkok (during which I sat behind a woman who snored like a [...]
The fact that I’m posting this photo now is a bad. I’m supposed to be on a plane flying from Phuket to Bangkok, but the airports in Bangkok are closed due to political protests.
As best I can make out, political protestors (the PAD), who essentially want to keep Thaksin and his friends out of [...]
Check out this photo of three different goby species sharing a single burrow. From back to front, the fish are: Stonogobiops yasha, Stonogobiops nematodes, and Amblyeleotris yanoi.
Photo taken in Menjangan, Bali at POS 2 dive site, 23 metres, by my friend Takashi Nagamatsu, who owns underwater camera shop Aquaforum in Japan.
Wish I had been [...]
Word play is fascinating in any language, even more interesting when it extends across two languages. A friend brought the bags pictured here to me last night, at a gathering of people I’ve met via whale, dolphin and sea lion trips.
The army-green bag on the left caught my eye when I was in Tonga [...]
I had an opportunity today to see the skeleton of a north pacific right whale (Eubalaena japonica). The skeleton is on display at the Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology.
At 17.1 metres in length, the skeleton is enormous. It’s from a 67.2-tonne male that was caught in 1961 near Kodiak Island, Alaska as part [...]
Instead of writing a trip report about my recent visit to Ambon, I played around with a web 2.0 service I’ve been watching for some time to put together a multimedia essay of sorts. The service is called Vuvox, and essentially, it allows you to combine various media forms into online shows and presentations, which [...]
A friend emailed this to me. I searched around, and found that it’s been posted a few times around the net. I’m not sure if it’s genuine (I can’t find any references to an original source), or if it’s the product of an adult with a lot of spare time, but it’s funny.
1. This is [...]
