nick’s (n)-line life

As the days tick down towards the four-month anniversary of my departure from the UK, I find myself reflecting on the way things have turned out. In spite of all the difficulties things seem to have gone remarkably well. It is no exaggeration to say that a new chapter of my life has opened-up [...]

After several months living in limbo at my parents place I’m finally back in Hong Kong. It’s nearly a year since I was last here but things carry on much the same. So it is that I find in a down-trodden Jordan room, cigarette in-hand, with Nathan Road’s traffic-noise providing the background ambiance.
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In the past, my prolific Youtube browsing has yielded some interesting results for China-related interest and language study. Today, however, I came across a video that comes in as my greatest youtube find to date. Looking at the 7 month old date stamp, I’m probably horribly behind, but I was still excited to find out [...]

Yes indeed, I do get excited by my tech toys. In this case however, I’m far from on my own. The Apple iPhone is perhaps the most beautiful toy to be touted for quite some time. The BBC has a video of CEO Steve Jobs showing off their toy; Apple’s official site also has [...]

Dr. Peter Witt has carried out a study to determine the effects of drugs and alcohol on spiders’ webs. The results are pretty interesting…

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Fly a lot? Often doze through those boring pre-flight announcements? Well then, think how much better they’d be if there was a bit more honesty…
The Economist has done exactly this, and it’s extremely funny.

I was quite stunned by today’s BBC news report (vid) which says that engineers plan to build the world’s first plastic electronics factory by 2008. The technology allows for the creation of plastic instead of silicon electronics and may prove to be revolutionary (some are saying that it’s akin to the discovery of the [...]