Pyeongchang Day 5: Ladies 1000m
Recap “Expect the unexpected” should be the motto for the games, not this “faster, higher, stronger” rubbish. What was probably one of the surest [more...]
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Pyeongchang Day 4: Mens 1500m
Recap I believe my first words at the conclusion of my men’s 1500m live commentary were “that was unexpected”. Kjeld Nuis (Nuis is pronounced to rhyme [more...]
Pyeongchang Day 3: Ladies 1500m
recap The predictability of yesterday’s result was balanced out by today. Ireen Wüst wins the ladies 1500m – the event in which she earned her first ever Olympic [more...]
Pyeongchang Day 2: Mens 5000m
Recap It was always Sven Kramer’s to lose, but the consumate professional athlete that he is did not disappoint and he convincingly took the gold medal in the [more...]
Pyeongchang Day 1: Ladies 3000m
Recap The ladies 3000m saw a few surprises, and what more appropriate way to start off the program for speed skating at this olympics. Early in the starting order, the [more...]
Annyeong Pyeongchang
Once again I’ve left it until the last possible minute to write my first real article in my Olympic blog. With any luck, I’ll have this finished before the start [more...]
The Death Star Problem
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… TL;DR The Death Star was destroyed by a single catastrophic vulnerability Modern, centralised internet communications are [more...]
What’s your favourite flour?
Feel-good Christmas (true) story follows: In the course of selling my camera gear, I’ve encountered no small number of scammers. I generally ignore them and get on with [more...]
Cities Beginning With B
This is the long-awaited update to a post I made in August of last year where I explained my situation to those who were interested. As one has come to expect from my life, [more...]
A Land of Ice and Fire
As with my other photosets, clicking on a photo will open a larger version, and text in red represents a clickable link. On arriving in Reykjavik, I immediately went to visit [more...]
Imposter vs Turing
This feeling, often described as imposter syndrome, where a person is unable to internalise their own achievements despite evidence to the contrary is one which I perpetually feel [more...]
The Myth of Ready
Are you ready?
Of course you aren’t. Who knows what the future holds? You certainly don’t. [more...]
The Situation
My life isn’t exactly a shining example of what people imagine as being “normal”, but in recent times it has made the transition from being simply [more...]
Clockwork Chapter 1
Backwards and forwards, left to right, side to side it went. To and fro, turning and returning, engines turning, energy loading and releasing. The essential balance is found [more...]
On Leadership
Until relatively recently, there was a running joke among trekkies that only the even-numbered films were any good. This is generally true, but as a die-hard fan, I’ve [more...]