Diving with Annie the Dolphin, Curacao
Well my ear is well and truly buggered, but I will be buggered if I am going to pass on a dive with a dolphin. So I brave the stinging salt water that runs into my throat while I pass the 10 meter mark. The dive is not much deeper and a perforation of the eardrum does not actually suffer from the
… Read more...Slideshows With Sound! The New Multimedia for the Future?
I just picked up some software called Soundslides Plus for evaluation. The plan is to start producing multimedia content for websites. This is what I came up with after playing with the software for an hour.
… Read more...Taming the Mighty Mississippi, in a canoe
The Riverman: John Ruskey of the Quapaw Canoe Company of Clarksdale Mississippi is the only commercial paddler who braves the currents of the Mighty Mississippi River. Jillian and I joined him on a 3 day trip. The big old river is known to the locals as 'off limits'. The currents, whirlpools,
… Read more...Earthquake in the Abruzzo of Italy
This morning TV brought the first images of the devastating powerful earthquake in Italy's Abruzzo mountains. Epi centre is the town of l'Aquila where Jillian and I spent a full week covering the regions beauty for Dutch travel magazines. The main story was just about to go to press, but
… Read more...testing a post in the new style
Turkey has for thousands of years been the gateway between Europe and the Middle East and Africa. Here early man assembled for religious rituals and to build his first cities. Great kingdoms grew up and left their monuments strewn across the landscape – the Hittite empire was succeeded by the
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