Four years in America on an immigrant worker's H1B Visa gave me a special appreciation that not all our compasses point to the same North on this planet - even though we speak the same language.
England and America - 'two nations separated by a common language' and all that.
Here's a few musings about then and now - mine, and some from people I know, who write like the virtuoso I long to be.
Disclaimer & Stuff
It's important to note that this is my personal blog. I currently work for Luna Tractor based in Melbourne in Australia, who have a website and blog of their own - everything in this blog, absolutely everything in all forms, is my own personal opinion about things I'm interested in - music, bikes, history, travel and suchlike.
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At the Edge of Life and Death in Ukraine
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A new photo book by Eddy van Wessel, with nearly two hundred images taken
over the course of three years, offers a visual history of the war’s
devastation.
musing about cricket
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I was brought up to believe that a good game of Test cricket is one that
gets to day 5 with all four results possible. That a great game or makes it
to the...
New Radio Show!
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Owing to cascading back-to-school schedules I make my return to typing
words into the internet incrementally, and to that end here's a short post
alerting ...
The Blue Room at The Consumer Electronics Show
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Hi, my name is Richard and I'm a technologist working in the BBC Blue Room.
It's my job to highlight immediate consumer technology trends and game
chang...
Dot Com Memories - Superbowl Adverts
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When we spent time in San Francisco in 2000 as part of an Antipodean
startup, there was a bizarre moment in the process of obtaining precious
venture capit...