nick’s (n)-line life

Ok, I am totally in love with Google Earth!
Fun things I’ve been doing:

Looking round area 51
Hunting for terrorists in the Sahara desert
Whistle-stop tour of several North Korean Military bases
found my houses (and realised that it’s submerged in greenery :O )
Relived past travel itineraries
Tracked and measured my daily route to lectures (ok, that last one is [...]

My college were kind enough to award me a travel grant over the summer.Following my return, the College asked me to produce a written report of my summer and I thought I’d post a copy here for general interest: Travel Grant Report (PDF format)
Photos From the Summer

Hong Kong

China

Northern Laos

Luang Prabang

Central Laos

Cambodia, General

Housebuilding Laos

Thailand

[not all [...]

The sixth week of the Cambridge term came to a terrible end last Friday, bringing great sadness for Girton. One of our first year students, a bionatsci named Tom Mansfield, was killed during his morning cycle into town, not even 2 minutes from the entrance to college. From what I can gather, just before 9am [...]

Having a bad day?
Well then, take it out on someone who deserves it. (via Peking Duck).
If you don’t have flash installed you can have a taster below (but trust me it’s so much more satisfying when it’s interactive! :) )

Sorta, like a lava lamp: very relaxing and you just can’t help but watch it!

There seems to be a popular misconception in the west that economic improvements in China have led to streets paved with gold and a rich and wealthy populous to rival Western Europe; some kind of ‘Chinese dream’ ?, perhaps? It’s scarily common for people to try and convince me that China no longer experiences many [...]

So depressing that bus loads of people are quite happy to sign up for a petition without any idea or what it’s about; even people who disagree with it are quite happy to sign up! (to cut / burn down all the trees in Yellowstone National Park as it happens).
Actually the video is part of [...]

I’m going to be working on the website backend scripts this afternoon, so don’t be too shocked if you hit a few 404s. In particular I plan to take the gallery down while I try out a “proper” package.
I think it’s probably time to say goodbye to the home-grown script that’s been handling my photo-viewing [...]