This is a pretty amazing video. Stephen Wiltshire, Kunst Savant Aus London (damned unfortunate title that one!) spends three days drawing a five foot aerial portrait of Rome having spent only 45 minutes in a helicopter viewing the city. The document is near perfect, his rendition of the Colosseum is practically identical when overlaid on a photograph of the real thing. That’s deeply awesome!
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I celebrated my second consecutive birthday in Bangkok yesterday. As is my usual custom, I took the day off work and instead attended to a few personal administration issues. First on the agenda, it was getting very out of control…
Then I wandered by Lumpini Park for a little jaunt in the swan shaped pedal boats. I’ve seen the next scene countless times in the park, but it never fails to bring a smile to my face…
Alas I couldn’t bring myself to participate, I just wasn’t wearing the right brand of spandex, but maybe next time! 
Two free tickets for the Melbourne Grand Prix were at stake. All Ross had to do was walk like a supermodel, he’s the tall lad that went first. The kid who went third ended up winning in the dance off, but sadly I didn’t catch that on video! Check it out…
Yesterday I upgraded to Fedora Core 6. All in all, a smooth process. Took a few hours on Sunday, couple of hours today recovering stuff as I needed it, and everything seems to be working like a charm.
I also upgraded to Firefox 2.0, lovely, major improvement on the previous version. It includes spell checking in text fields, so this post is spell checked courtesy of Firefox!
For those that are interested, I’ve decided to give up on using Linux as a tablet. I’m instead going to, somewhat sadly, install Windows for my mobile, tablet related stuff.
On the plus side, with one click in Fedora Core 6 I was able to run Xgl, which is an awesome 3d desktop. Check it out…
Now if that’s not a good enough reason to switch over to Linux for you non-believers, I don’t know what is…
I had my first musical sword recital yesterday from my latest couch surfing guests…
Now there’s something you don’t see every day!
It’s that time of year again, but do you know what the Easter Bunny is doing for the other 364 days of the year? I’ll show you…
Many thanks to Dr Jamesonian Kendallosis for this contribution…
Having been in Bangkok for almost 3 months now, I went back to Khao San Road for the first time in weeks. It’s where we first arrived, and the only place in Bangkok most backpackers ever see. Ahh, it was nice to be back amongst so many farrang faces in a way. To spare the spirit of it with you via the wonders of the web, I shot a little video…
I was over there seeing Vicky before she flies home after two and half years of travelling! She’s heading to Edinburgh, ahhh, home, and she’ll fit right in with all the other grandmothers with her super trendy shopping bag pictured below…
Vicky was the very first person I met in Chiang Mai when I arrived from the UK. My first backpacking buddy! Safe flight Vick.
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