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A Small Announcement 29 Oct 2011 | 05:14 pm
Now that we have seen as many people as possible face to face, I thought I’d put up my speech from our engagement party last week. Friends, Surrogate Family, Soon To Be In-Laws, Colleagues and Nemese...
United States of Anxiety 1 Aug 2011 | 11:07 am
I was last in the United States in the summer of 2002, when I travelled around the country using Amtrak. I met lots of people on the trains and in diners who were very keen to talk about world affairs...
Configuring OS X Mail For Gmail Without Duplicates 27 Jul 2011 | 03:39 am
I’ve been using Gmail tied to my Google Apps account for the last couple of years and I love it. However, travelling around with intermittent Wi-Fi access for the last 6 months has meant there have be...
In Poor Taste 6 Jul 2011 | 01:35 pm
I had only been convinced that I should eat KFC to help banish a hangover that threatened to sabotage our day trip to Valparaiso, and now I felt worse than ever. Santiago certainly feels much safer t...
The Navel Of The World 4 Jul 2011 | 01:32 pm
I owe Bill Watterson a huge debt of gratitude. Not only for his unauthorised semi-biographical cartoon of me, Calvin and Hobbes, about a loud-mouthed, know-it-all blonde-haired child and his philosoph...
Chile Con Carne, Cafe Con Piernas 3 Jul 2011 | 08:40 am
I could name two Chileans before I came here, General Pinochet and Salvador Allende. I had little idea what they had actually managed to do, but Franco, the guide on our walking tour around Santiago t...
Bits And Pieces: Spain and Brazil 1 Jul 2011 | 10:35 am
You have my 100% cast-iron money-back lifetime warranty guarantee that the following will delight and entertain you! (Not a guarantee.) I can’t even speak Fast Show style fake Spanish as fast as real...
Rio, Grand 29 Jun 2011 | 01:27 pm
Having spoken with others, it seems like we were just the victims of bad timing for our visit to the Corcovado and there certainly weren’t the crowds today as we took the cable cars up Rio’s most famo...
Redeeming Features 26 Jun 2011 | 12:57 am
Yeah, we were mugged on our second day here, but it wasn’t so bad – I mean, they had a knife, but it wasn’t terrible or anything! That’s awful! Where did it happen? Um, it was a place in the middle ...
Going Long 22 Jun 2011 | 10:28 am
I don’t know about you, but if I had the emergency exit row on a plane with all that extra leg room, I wouldn’t feel the need to recline my seat back at a 45 degree angle. It’s a shame the woman in fr...
