Month: June 2015

• June 28, 2015

  Tokyo…how did it take me this long to get here?

  This is an amazing city. I had my first vending machine experience at the airport – a beverage not entirely unlike fizzy grapefruit juice – and I see them absolutely everywhere. Nothing too odd so far, just drinks and cigarettes. I took the Limousine bus to the Grand Hyatt Hotel, and walked from there, much […]
• June 27, 2015

  Sky Blog Two

  I would’ve written sooner, but thanks to China blocking communications over their airspace I haven’t been able to get online for most of the flight. I’ve been up for a long time now and fatigue is starting to settle in. The last flight took a strange turn when I ended up sitting beside an Irish […]
• June 26, 2015

  Sky Blog One

  Blogging in the Sky There’s a first time for everything. First steps. First video game console. First kiss. All the important milestones, and now, this is both my first time using WiFi in the air, and my first time blogging from the sky. The Linx tablet is perfect for this scenario, given its compact size […]
• June 26, 2015

  The Land of the Rising Sun – Brought to you by ODGamer

  Huzzah! The first leg of my journey is well under way. I’m sitting in Dublin airport departures enjoying their (surprisingly) free WiFi, and attempting to get to grips with my portable blogging setup. I’ve brought my Linx 7 tablet and the Belkin QODE case, and I can already feel repetitive strain setting in. This isn’t  […]
• June 23, 2015

  Freedom, Japan, and Cameras

  Tuesday marked my last exam, and I have been free as a bird since then. My time over the last week has been spent packing away things in Belfast, buying and getting to grips with my camera, and preparing for Japan. I still haven’t fully come to terms with the fact I’m going to Japan […]
• June 7, 2015

  Internet Withdrawal

  I started writing in the absence of internet in my Belfast home, but I have been online over the weekend thankfully. A week is too long. If Evil from Time Bandits was around today, perhaps he would not sought to have an understanding of computers, but rather the internet. That is how he would remain […]