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12 May 2010 tagged africa, algeria, belly dancer, buffet, cairo, christina, computer, decision, dinner cruise, egypt, embassy, europe, falafel, flight, iraq, istanbul, laundry, libya, nile, north korea, overcast, package, passport, photocopy, pyramid, pyramids, restaurant, south africa, south korea, souvenirs, sphinx, sufi dancer, tourist, travel, travel agent, tripod, turkey, visa, weather, world cup with no comments
day 406 – christina desperately wanted to see the pyramids, but i was hold off for better weather. we had hoped to go today, but it was overcast and very hazy. we agreed to give it two more days and if the weather wasn’t clear, we’d go anyway. instead, we headed to the embassy district. [...]
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11 May 2010 tagged a clockwork orange, africa, anthony burgess, aqaba, beer, boat, bookstore, bus, cafe, cairo, cameras, chess, computer, dahab, dress, egypt, egypt museum, esplanade, ferry, format, jordan, king tut, m, mask, mummy, nile, scam, sunglasses, taxi, tourists, travel, tutankhamun, wait with no comments
day 401 – after a lazy day we were ready to get moving again. we got some cash and checked out of the hotel. we caught a taxi down to the aqaba ferry terminal where we planned to get the boat to egypt. when we arrived there was a long wait for the ferry. we [...]
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11 March 2010 tagged airport, armoured personnel carrier, army, baksheesh, book, canal, caretaker, chowkhang gompa, coffee, computer, dal lake, email, fish temple, flight, floating store, french wife, gompa, hill, hindu, horse, hotel, houseboat, india, indian, indian archaeological society, internet cafe, islam, island, kashmir, kashmir valley, ladakh, leh, marijuana, military, mohammad, monastery, money, mosque, mountain, movie, muslim, pahalgan, paulo cohelo, people, photo, photography, photos, picture, riding, runway, school, sledding, snacks, snow, soldiers, srinigar, stars, strike, temple, the zahir, tibetan restaurant, victoria, view, weather with no comments
day 346 – it snowed like mad the whole day. after breakfast i walked around town taking photographs of the snow. it was a lot of fun because people were happy to let me take their picture – even though it was snowing and freezing cold. i returned to chowkhang gompa and took some photos [...]
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7 March 2010 tagged application, approval code, australia day, australian embassy, bakery, bed bugs, book, breakfast, bureaucracy, camera stores, chess, computer, connaught place, conversation, cult, delay, delhi, email, foreign ministry, france, hippy, hostel, hotel, india, iran guide book, iranian embassy, iranian food, letter of introduction, lonely planet, main bazaar, mumbai, music, natural born killers, new delhi, official, operating system, pakistan embassy, phone, prayer, religious, restaurant, salvation army hostel, shower, singing, spain, train, ubuntu, upgrade, visa, water with no comments
day 331 – australia day – i woke up, had breakfast and packed. the hostel had no water at all … so no shower … and i was covered in bed bug bites … again! i stored my bag and headed into town. i checked out a few camera stores, checked email and returned to [...]
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30 October 2009 tagged a league, airport, australia, barbeque, bbq, beer, breakfast, brisbane, brisbane roar, cd reader, computer, craig, cruise ship, football, frame, garden city, inyoung, linux, macadamia, netbook, nuts, photo, shopping, soccer, suncorp stadium, ubuntu, wedding, windows with no comments
day 231 – i went to garden city to do some shopping. whilst messing about with my dual boot, i accidentally deleted the grub boot files, meaning that i couldn’t run either windows or ubuntu. my netbook doesn’t have a cd reader, so i thought i’d have to buy one to fix my computer. we [...]
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30 October 2009 tagged computer, distribution, epiphany, free, freeware, gnome, instant messanger, interface, jaunty jalope, karmic koala, kubuntu, linux, netbook, open source, pidgin, software, ubuntu, unr, windows with no comments
ubuntu have officially released their latest linux distribution ‘karmic koala’. the strange name is in keeping with their double letter naming system (the previous release is known as ‘jaunty jalope’) . karmic koala is version 9.10 and has included a number of major changes to ubuntu. it still uses gnome 2 (gnome 3 is not [...]
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28 October 2009 tagged application, communication, computer, email, google, internet, map, message, picture, technology, wave with 1 comment
today i received my google wave invite. my account is active and i’m currently enjoying looking at the wave interface. wave is the next leap forward in online connectivity. it has the ability to mashup email, messaging, images, video, maps, etc into one huge conversation. whilst wave is still being developed some of the features [...]
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23 October 2009 tagged airport, bank, bar, beer, bookmark, chess, chopsticks, christina, coex, computer, czech restaurant, dinner, email, flight, hp, korea, mongolia, security, seoul, souvenir, technomart, travel, ulaan bataar with no comments
day 196 – i spent the morning online, catching up with email and chess games. then in the afternoon i went out with paula to the souvenir shop. i bought a few gifts for friends, including a couple of chess sets. when i returned to the hotel i realised that one chess set was missing [...]
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7 October 2009 tagged airport, bananas, beer, bracelet, cafe, chengdu, china, coffee, computer, diary, dinner, employees, flight, friends, grafitti, group, guide, headphones, hostel, hotel, ipod, japanese, lhasa, lunch, mall, meat, military, monasteries, night, online, photography, photos, pictures, police, potala palace, rain, rickshaw, tattoo, temples, tibet, town, train, travel, wifi, xian with no comments
day 176 – i spent the morning at the hotel an said goodbye to hokuto (he was flying back to chengdu). i had two more days in lhasa by myself, but the guide had to go to the airport with hokuto, so i just spent the afternoon wandering around town. i wanted to take some [...]
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4 October 2009 tagged argument, bananas, beer, blog, border, breakfast, buffalos, bus, carriage, chengdu, china, computer, conductor, dormitory, girl, hanoi, hiking, homestay, hostel, hotel, immigration, internet cafe, ipod, kids, kinetic, linux, lunch, minibus, money, muddy, nanning, pancakes, photography, photos, pictures, prostitute, rain, research, restaurant, rice paddies, sapa, sleeper, star wars, taxi, tibet, ticket, torch, track, train, train station, travel, tv, ubuntu, vietnam, villages, visa, waterfall with no comments
day 161 – we woke up to a massive pancake breakfast that our hungry group couldn’t finish. the pancakes were piled high and we devoured them with bananas, honey and various jams. a little girl was playing on the fence across from our homestay, and when i spotted her, i ran across the road with [...]
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13 August 2009 tagged airport, australia, australian, beer, black hmong, boat, bracelet, breakfast, brits, buffet breakfast, cat ba island, cat cat waterfall, cataract, catholic, catholic church, chess, china, chinese, clothes, coffee, computer, costume, craig, crucifix, cruise, dinner, drink, duckpack, editing, engine, eye, facebook, foreigners, format, girl, guide, halong bay, handicrafts, hanoi, hike, hiking, hmong, homestay, hotel, illiterate, junk, kayak, korea, limestone caves, mall, market, matilda, mobile phone, monkey island, mosquito net, motorbikes, mountain vilage, nanning, netbook, operating system, pool table, portraits, privacy, red hmong, rice paddies, sapa, shower, software, souvenirs, storage, sunset, swimming, ticket, tourists, track, train, vietnam, village, weather, wifi, windows, women, xp with 1 comment
day 156 – today was the last day on the island, and i had to leave early. after breakfast we checked out and were met by a boat which would take us to halong bay. we crossed cat ba island and ended up on a chinese style ‘junk’ which would be home for the final [...]
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16 July 2009 tagged autorun.inf, cmd, computer, con, device, dos, hack, hard drive, multimedia, start, thumb drive, usb, virii, virus with 8 comments
i’m not much of a tech geek, but i have a little trick that works wonders for usb thumb drives. one of the problems with using portable usb devices is that they’re prone to virii. especially, they’re prone to malicious programs automatically installing themselves via windows’ autorun feature. the hack which follows is useful and [...]
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10 June 2009 tagged bangkok, beer, book, boom, burritos, cafe, camera, computer, dining carriage, email, fa cup, final, food, football, forearm, hotel, hp mini, ipod, khao san road, macbook, meat, mi casa, movies, netbook, notebook, photography, photos, ploy, portable, restaurant, ryan, shinya, soccer, southern cross, station, street vendor, tattoo, terminator salvation, thailand, train, tv with no comments
day 91 – i woke up late and walked around khao san road for a while. i ended up sitting at one of the outdoor cafes enjoying a beer and reading my book. i also inquired about the price of a tattoo from the tattooist near the cafe. after that, i went to ploy’s house. we [...]
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27 March 2009 tagged bar, beer, bhutia busty gompa, blackout, bombay belly, book, book of the dead, buddha, buddhist, cafe, candle, carlsberg, choling, chowkrasta, computer, dalai lama, darjeeling, dhirdham mardin, druk sangak choling monastery, durpin gompa, educational, email, ghoom, hindu temple, hotel, india, irish, jeep, kalimpong, kip, kolkata, landscape, liverpool, london, lonely planet, lunch, mantra, markets, medicine, memories, monastery, monk, mountain, observatory hill, om many padme hum, philosophy, photo, pizza, rain, red lion, ring, sakya choling monastery, samten choling monastery, script, sella, shared jep, shop, sick, sleep, station, steps, stomach bug, taxi, tea, teach, thailand, thunderstorm, tibet, tibetan, toy train, train, train ticket, travelers diahorrea, trek, views, virus, walk, water, weather, yiga choling monastery with 2 comments
i can’t believe i’ve been in india for 3 weeks … despite everything, time is going so quickly. day 18 – in the morning i got a taxi up to durpin gompa. it’s the biggest gompa in kalimpong and the views are sensational. unfortunately, the entire darjeeling district has been quite hazy for the past [...]
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23 March 2009 tagged aston villa, australia, begging, book, buddha, buddhas, bus, computer, controversy, cricket, crowded, dalai lama, deki lodge, demon, dorje shugden, family, fish and chips, flayed, football, frescos, gompa, hawking, hill view hotel, hull, india, kalimpong, liverpool, macabre, map, memory, monk, mountains, myanmar, photography, photos, restaurant, ryan, sartaj, shower, siliguri, sleep, snoring, soccer, south africa, spirits, statues, sunday, terraces, thailand, tharpa choling gompa, thongsa gompa, tibet, tibetan, tourist, train, tshirt, valley, vanilla ice cream, wigan with 3 comments
day 15 (continued) – the overnight trip to siliguri was great. i slept comfortably for most of the trip. day 16 - in the morning i woke up because the guy on the bottom bunk was talking so loudly. it turns out that he does everything loudly, when i got up an decided to read my [...]