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I cycle across Tower Bridge every day. This is a snippet of my route back. The camera ran out of battery - I’ll get my full route tomorrow.

A while ago, we did some cycling in Spain.
There are also some photos.

I love those moments in cities when the normal rhythm of the daily grind is interrupted, and in the momentary disruption a different city shines through. As if someone paused the record, allowing a simple discussion to take the place of the loud drone. The lifting of Tower Bridge is one of those events, a [...]

On Thursday evening I went to the Friends Meeting House on Euston Road, for a public meeting entitled “How can we win the race against climate catastrophe?” It was a well attended event, run by the Campaign against Climate Change, with George Monbiot, John Sauven (Director of Greenpeace UK), Claire Fauset (Camp for Climate Action) [...]

Having finally converted to the light side (MacBook Pro), I finally got round to processing my photos from our honeymoon. We’re off to Hackney Field Day in a few minutes, hopefully to catch Battles, Adem, The Aliens, The Concretes and many more. All is good.

Went to Edinburgh at the weekend. Did some cycling.

In case you missed it from this weekend’s Guardian: The world’s greatest invention.
When asked what their favourite invention of all time is, what do you suppose people say? Mobile phones get some votes; computers, too; iPods, inevitably. And there are always some people who love their car and couldn’t imagine life without it. If it’s [...]

Appropedia is a living library wiki, focused on success in two global initiatives:

Reduce poverty through International Development
Increase Sustainability through the use of Appropriate Technology

Cool projects include:

Solar Powered Food Dehydrator - There are SO MANY mangos rotting away in Malawi. If people could build one of these, which doesn’t seem too complex, they could sell dried [...]

So I got older on Wednesday and celebrate by having a party in a warehouse this weekend (photos pending photos here). People came from far to enjoy cake and wine with myself and F. Lots of fun was had by all, but I suspect the collapsed ceiling might object to that.
My new (to me) toy [...]

Bit weird being back at uni again, but this time it’s the last time (yay!). My project supervisor is very keen on my project, and I’m looking forward to getting stuck in. Unfortunately, this is a little hampered by having to hang out of a window to steal an internet connection from somewhere nearby (thank [...]