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I came to a rather huge, albeit anticlimactic, decision today. I will not buy a new laptop!! Crazy huh? Basically, I dropped an entire cup of tea on my current one, and I assumed it was doomed, but thankfully

Some people with somewhere said that there are two types of joy: The immediate joy you get from an experience The delayed joy that comes in hindsight of what, at the time, may have seemed miserable. Consider

Over the years I tend to download a ton of third party plugins for my musical endeavours which I then never use, fully intending to maybe one day check 'em out if I feel the need to. Now it's gotten to

Ok so my last post describe the absolute failure on day one of our ski trip in Japan. Long story short, we took the big gondola to the very top of the mountain thinking it would be fine due to all the

After our little sidequest to Onuma National Park, it was time to go to our actual destination: Hakodate. Luckily we found a sign in the snow saying 'shortcut to train station' which is where we started.

If you are passionate about something - *anything* - this is the place to be!

I wrote a large post about this but then i stumbled across Jonathan Pie's latest commentary on it and he just says everything I've been trying to say, but far more concisely. Have a watch! Ultimately,

Again, I'll try not to bore with selfies in front of random buildings. There are more blogs of this kind than there are humans currently alive. Instead, I want to take a deeper dive into the history because

After our trip to Cinque Terre, we returned to Florence since it was the nearest place, with plans to head to Rome for the final stretch of the trip. The first time in Florence was more of a kind of walkabout,

What a beautiful town. To be honest, I didn't even fully appreciate its beauty while I was there on our first visit. Only when we returned a few days later, and after re-acquainting myself to my current

Italy is not particularly well known for its beaches. You wanna to to somewhere like Greece or Spain for that. But it has beaches. Overall, I'm not a beach guy. I don't think anybody should be forced to

So, time to talk about the actual content of our trip to Italy. This is quite boring for readers, especially regarding very well-known places Italy. Who on earth wants to hear my personal experience taking

Summer holidays are over, but we did make the most of it with a trip to Italy. This was no easy feat. My wife is Chinese so she needed a visa, but the visa website for italy 'vfsglobal' is, without

British Elections are coming in as I type and, well, it's looking apocalyptic for the current leadership, the Conservatives: So here's a quick lesson: The conservatives have been in power exactly since

I've seen some really impressive use cases for it, some things seem almost unreal although I never really thought too deeply about its implications or applications. But to try something on my own out of

What the hell is this?? What unimaginable beauty is this, where is it? How do I get to it?? I spent my entire childhood and young adulthood never knowing such glorious landscapes short of fantasy. Ok,

I like to smell this moss at work from time to time. There's a little gap in the plastic for your thumb to lift the top, but its a great little access point for my nose. It suddenly occurred to me today

Termite Mounds on the Bungle Bungle Range in Western Australia Image credit: Ouderkraal. CC 3.0 In the picture above there appears to be a sparse forest of brown, conical trees. Closer observation reveals,

All images are taken with Samsung Galaxy Flip 4 by yours truly. When I was much younger, I saw a movie called The Bucket List (Epic, 100% recommend) starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman as the leads,