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Iran's Post-Election Uprising: Hopes & Fears Revealed Read, digest and understand more »

If I were to look back a few posts on here, I'd eventually find that this blog got set up a good couple of years ago, since when traffic has been somewhat tricky to come by. I don't know much about SEO, in fact I know virtually nothing. I post… more »

Not an obvious title for most I grant you, but he has cropped up in my browsing twice in the last two days, before which I'd never heard of him. Sisyphus was cursed to roll a boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll down again, for all eternity as a… more »

Have any studies been done to understand the relative importance of blogs in disseminating news when compared to more traditional media (newsprint, books, radio, TV)? more »

I mentioned in Reading Material that I'd read Girl With a One-Track Mind by Abby Lee. The briefest moment of Google based curiosity turned up the circumstances around what happened next. For anyone who might wonder where I've been for the last 3 years,… more »

OK, so I broke the layout a bit. All will be fixed shortly, assuming I'm reading the b2e forum advice correctly - needed to restore the index.main.php for Vastitude to how it was around 6 months ago first though. EDIT: All done and I can now sleep… more »

In the normal course of events, I'm not overtly political, but I was struck by the image below from Telzey (Lydia Marano), one of my flickr contacts, which seems to me to sum up what is happening in Iran at the moment. Whilst neither I nor many others… more »

For some obscure reason, I decided to log into Facebook tonight and almost instantly was passing messages with my (much) younger sister. I used to do this, but some of the crap that gets circulated at times is ever so slightly juvenile (old fart alert),… more »

Or at least that's what I wish I was doing. Since coming back to Riyadh and the workplace that goes with it, my sleep patterns have got majorly disrupted. Go to bed tired, lie awake for a while, get too hot, maybe my back starts nagging away at me,… more »

Over the last few days, since getting back from the UK, I've managed to finish off a couple of books. One was 'What, is the What', an autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng, the other was Girl With a One-Track Mind by Abby Lee a.k.a. Zoe Margolis. What… more »

This is what you get when you mix oil, water and a photog --> check the link out to see how it's done - Adorama & PPSOP more »

This was taken at the Melton Mowbray market during the TPF Rutland Meet-up. The guy running the stall was from Nepal and had loads of these fantastically coloured shirts, trousers, jackets and what not. How could a guy with a camera resist when one of… more »

A little something from the Rutland trip more »

...lots more For anyone who wants to find them --> Map more »

Hadn't realised that it's been a while since I last went down to the wrecks on the River Wyre, over 18 months in fact. Given that they are only 2.15 miles away from my house (Google Earth measurement), that's actually pretty poor. What was interesting… more »