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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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Adventures in Text and Wind-Up Birds
Interstellar Text Adventure What’s this? Am I about to talk about a real life game for a change? And not just any game, may I add. This is a classic text adventure based on last year’s Kip Thorne and Chris Nolan epic, Interstellar. For those who missed it, the plot of Interstellar involved a future…
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2014 in review…ish
As always I’m including the automated annual report for the blog. The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. I shall have to put together a proper annual review when I get time. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 2,800 times…
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The Thesis Completion Scenario
Damn, this has been quite the hiatus. This week has been the first in a while I have been able to do nothing (or very little), and I’ve been making the most (or least) of it. Writing has been relatively low priority recently, but I shall make my return into the blogosphere, little by little.…
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Nodnol, 0 selim
And like many great things, my Londonian adventure began on the steps of the Albert Memorial, overlooking the Royal Albert Hall. Though that isn’t entirely true. It began when the plane landed in Heathrow, and I made my way onto the Underground. The modern, smooth-riding trains don’t have quite the same charm as the rickety-rackety old…
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It’s Business Time (And June)
The end of exams may be drawing close for some, but my ordeal has only just begun. This summer is going to be spent doing labwork and writing my thesis, which I shall be trying to finish up as quickly as possible. This year has been good, but it has also been much busier than…
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Absence
I have been missing from these pages from some time now, but I have not forgotten. I’ve had to call an ordinary decent hiatus until the end of my exams, or until I can face work no longer. The exams in question start next Friday, and run through to the 12th of June, so not…
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