“raincoats in chinese films”?

Every now and then I check what people have been searching for when they come to my site, and a lot of the searches make sense – there are always a lot of surfers who are looking for travel information on China, or Chinese history and also searches for one of my other hobbies featured [...]

Tokyo Godfathers

We saw Tokyo Godfathers today, and I’m still trying to recover from this movie… maybe there can be too much of a good thing after all! This is the third movie from Satoshi Kon, and as he as already shown with Perfect Blue and Millennium Actress, he is pure genius. Godfathers brings us into present-day [...]

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Citibank Email Fraud

A few minutes ago I got a brand new version of a Citibank fraud in my inbox… The subject line says “Important Fraud Alert from Citibank”, and I actually almost clicked on that thing before I came to my senses… a quick check revealed that this mail came from a prodigy email address, so it’s [...]

Hill 88 Revisited

While going through some old photos, I found this shot I took two years ago on Hill 88. I thought this would make a colorful counterpoint to my earlier post of Hill 88 in the fog.

Venezia – Pace

During a trip to Italy last year we visited Venice, maybe one of the most beautyful cities on this planet. There are more photo opportunities than you can point a camera at. It was just before the Iraq war had started and like the rest of Italy, the whole of Venice was covered in Peace [...]