Posts tagged with : Personal

Jun
18
Mon

Open Source everything

Came across this article and I like this idea. It is well worth a read. Now what can we all do to make this happen, do we even want this to happen or is everything just rosie as it is…ummm I wonder.
At the weekend , whilst enjoying a day out at Ballintoy, I was able [...]


May
11
Fri

Halliburton war profiteers

Far be from me to interfer in American politics or foreign policy, but this was too disgusting to ignore. So in an unprecedented move I veer away from web development, scuba diving and more personal ventures to draw attention to this banned excerpt from the video on war profiteering Republicans don’t want you to see….. [...]


May
10
Thu

Name this orchid

So far the suggestions have been, “Early Purple Orchid” and well thats been the only suggestion so far. I did think it was a spotted heath orchid but that turned out to be somewhat different and found at the other end of Rathlin Island.

Anyway I have not turned into a wild flower spotter, but these [...]


Apr
22
Sun

Sponge life on Rathlin’s North Wall

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There really is a great variety of non fish aquatic life on Rathlin. It was reported recently in various publications that there was something like 70 new species of sponge identified during a survey of the water surrounding Rathlin Island. Some of these can be seen on Waterworld a programme broadcast on BBC [...]


Apr
12
Thu

Oaxaca, Mexico February 2007

Well we’ve been home now forquite a few weeks and now with my blog well and truely ported over onto wordpress I will soon be ready to start posting again. I dare say most of you will have already deserted by now, but hopefully over the coming months there will be a resumption of [...]