Flight Sense

As we all know by now on Christmas day a man attempted to detonate an explosive on a flight as it was descending into Detroit. The media reported this almost immediately as a “terrorist attack”.

There was a Republican senator on CNN this week denouncing Obama because “…he took 3 days to respond to the [...]

Technology Killed the Memory Star

I’ve been think a lot about death lately. Before you raise your eyebrows, it isn’t a bad thing. There have just been a few things in my life lately that brought the subject up. I’ve outlined a couple below.

Firstly, a friend and former co-worker in his late 20′s lost his battle to cancer a [...]

Anatomy of a Con

My Lonely Planet Guide for India (which was a God send of a book) had countless warnings about scams in India. Almost each city/section had special headings on the type and nature of scams in that region and spoke about how to spot them and avoid them. Aside from being a yet another fear mongering [...]

India-ology

Greetings from India where my friend Andrew and I have been traveling around for 2 weeks now!

In that ime I have learned a few things and thought I would share.

1) I am white and rich  - It sounds almost racist, but in a country of over 1 billion Indian residents being white makes you stand [...]

The Re-Linking

Those of you fortunate enough and/or with enough spare time to read my Facebook, Twitter and Blog sites are aware that I recently de-coupled Twitter updates automatically updating Facebook statuses. I did this for a very specific reason, and have just “un-done” this for another. I had a few people comment on that decision, and [...]

The Tri-Tour Conundrum

I love guests. Since moving to England three years ago I have had the fortune of being host to several of my friends from back home and always welcome more people to my humble abode. This week I was lucky enough to have 3 seperate groups of people pop over the big pond for a [...]

Pics are worth $$$

A recent bit of feedback from a friend and fellow blogger is that my posts lack a certain graphical appeal. I therefore have decided to introduce a recurring feature to this site where I use the power of my Blackberry’s camera to bring you interesting things I encounter on my day-to-day adventures.

Today’s edition is [...]

Greed flies high

I have flown quite a bit, not a lot, but more than most and less than quite a few. I have flown on everything from “Can this legally be considered a plane?”-class on Delta to Executive First on Air New Zealand, one of the best airlines in the air. I have been on Virgin Blue [...]