Highlights

The Amstrad PCW

My love affair with computing properly began when I was in the sixth form in the late 80s and took up word processing as one of my subjects. I fell in love with both the […]

Books

Dragonlance Chronicles

I first read the Dragonlance books soon after I left high school and just as I was about to start sixth form college. I had known about them before that: a few of my friends […]

Books

Remembering The Wolf King

I have always loved reading. It feels that I have always read fairy tales and other short stories. We did not have many books at home when I was a child but I loved going […]

Books

Let’s Go Book Hunting!

Very few things in life give me as much pleasure as books, and for me the buying is as pleasurable as the reading. Like most people, I seldom go to brick-and-mortar bookshops now as in […]

Potpourri

The Birthday Paradox

  While procrastinating this morning (I was putting off studying New Testament Greek), I started thinking about people with the same birthday as me. I realised that there are quite a few: at least two […]

Food and Drink

Halo-halo

I think it would be fair to say that halo-halo is to the Philippines what gelato is to Italy. Halo-halo (mix-mix or mixed in English) is a refreshing dessert which is a blend of shaved […]

Technology

Renting software? No thanks!

A few weeks ago, someone about to make his first foray into photo editing asked if I would recommend Photoshop. Money was no object and the enquirer was technical enough to have found Photoshop intuitive […]

Technology

Feel at Home

Studying in Rome has its many privileges but one of the drawbacks is that it’s not home. I love London – the place and the people – and being so far away from it can […]

Books

First Love

They say your first love is the deepest and the most special, the love that you will never forget. They must be right, for I have decided to go back to my first love. I’m […]