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Photo by Francois Schnell

TV: The Lost World of Tibet

I caught The Lost World of Tibet on TV yesterday, it had some utterly knockout footage of the Tibet of the 1930s. The old Tibet literally is a 'lost world' the colour footage seems unbelievable like it was taken by a time traveler to medieval China.

Book Review: Happiness: Lessons from a New Science by Richard Layard

I recently picked up a copy of Richard Layard's book on Happiness from the local library. I have been fascinated by positive psychology ever since I read Martin Segilman's Authentic Happiness and it worries me that it isn't top of the political agenda.

Environmental brownie points

Yesterday I upgraded my Flickr account to a Pro account - this means I now get access to detailed statistics on how many people have viewed my photos and drawings.

Turn Flickr streams into iPhoto Photocasts

A great feature of iPhoto is it's ability to subscribe to RSS feeds with images in Apple calls these photocasts.  This means you can continuously view friends and families photos as they are updated.  The only problem with Photocasts is that you need a costly .mac account to create a stream of you own.

My favourite Sci Fi fix

Trekkie PhoneI don't really understand why but in the same way some people are addicted to soaps, I seemed to need a

Barcelona Street Art

IMG_1058.JPGI visited Barcelona last week for a short family holiday.

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