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So my time here in Shimla draws towards a close, and it becomes painfully evident that I've still got a load of photos to upload. Best get on to that post-haste ! Here's a couple from the collection: The typical forms of wildlife you see in Shimla are – as I've indicated before – a…
Sooooo many little nuances and differences to write about, however today I've chosen a topic that I find almost totally mystifying – the Eggmen. Now, as a keen participant in Western Culture I'm totally at ease with the notion of convenience food, and indeed after a bacchanalian night out have availed myself of roadside regret…
Well how's that ? Just passed my 5th and final exam in this group, which earns me the esteemed designation of Microsoft Certified Solution Developer. Yes siree, it's all limousines, hot-tubs and caviar from here onwards. I also passed the first of my 3 Visual Basic exams, so there's 2 more of those to go,…
Having a birthday party (in conjunction with Roie) in Adelaide on Nov 25th. Mail me for details. Would love to see everyone.
OK so I go in to the dentist’s the other day, because like 80% of the English speaking world, I’m a little slacker than I should be and put off going to the dentist as often as I should. OK, so the last time was about 8 years ago. I’d like to justify that by…
Photographing landscape and scenery is one skill which has always evaded my grasp. I'll give it a go, but it always ends up as being a washed out facsimile of what I'm actually looking at. Or the shots come out flat & 2 dimensional. Sometimes, with a bit of effort, they're not *that* bad. So…
Inspired by a post at Flashpackers, it occurred to me that having been in Shimla a couple of weeks now I'd kind of developed a tendency to get on with life rather than being a tourist in a new place (although having made that outlandish claim, I suppose I'm still photographing anything and everything that…
2 things strike me as overly hopeful about the ambulances here: 1) I sincerely doubt that should you need to get into one that you'd be able to lie in the back – they're essentially Suzuki Carryvans, which like its stablemates the MightyBoy and the Sherpa, seems to have been designed for carting individual cartons…