Last night, an ex-student and friend of mine and I got together for a pint and a chat about our summer holidays and the three-week language course he did in Dublin. As he was feeling rather nostalgic about his Irish experience, we drank, yes, you guessed: Guinness.Between sips, it was very … [Read more...]
Digital exploits.
August 30, 2007 By Leave a Comment
I took quite a few photos this summer. Some were good, some were not so great. I'm still very much learning and experimenting and making lots of mistakes. Sometimes I understand where I went wrong, other times, I'm not so sure. Not a problem, although it can be frustrating at times, … [Read more...]
Added some photos to my Flickr collection.
August 29, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Yes, I've got round to adding a few more photos. I spent the summer hols playing around with black and white. Whilst I love colour, there is something about black and white pictures that captures the mood of certain scenes very well. Maybe it is because the absence of colour forces you to … [Read more...]
Why Italy is the way it is.
August 29, 2007 By 4 Comments
My Tuscan vacation gave me a few more clues as to why Italy is the way it is and why really it is not as united as it could be.First of all I believe that Italy is a relatively young country, in the sense that the unification of the country only really began with Garibaldi. And Garibaldi's … [Read more...]
Darwin v the Bible
August 29, 2007 By Leave a Comment
I seem to be hearing more and more about the conflict between the Darwin's theory of evolution and how the Bible describes the way in which we were created. And it has to be admitted that Darwin's ideas theoretically discredit the biblical version of how we came to be. Recently, for some reason … [Read more...]
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