Annals of Innovation: How David Beats Goliath: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker. I love Malcolm Gladwell! No related posts. Read More

A couple of deadlines and a new camera later, and I've started updating my photoblog again. There are a few excuses I could make about having sold all my cameras and the likes, but really, I've just been snowed under. ...Read More

How long has it been since I posted? It's a disgrace I tell you. I suppose it must have something to do with my busy, busy life! As is standard for climbers and mountaineers, I've spent the last two months ...Read More

Mark Thomas: Download this card, warning police that if a stop and search is intrusive or malicious, you will take action | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk . No related posts. Read More

"MAN ON!" - "WELL IN!" - "GO TO!" - "MINE!" The orange ball flies down the line Reminding me: I'm not the sort Of person who can play team sport I never really understood How hitting balls with bits of wood Could stir up any real ...Read More

I've just created a separate photo blog, in an attempt to try and get myself to put more photos up here. Hopefully it'll be a photo a day from now on! Click the link in the navigation at the top ...Read More

It is clear that national identity and négritude (“the affirmation or consciousness of the value of black culture;…the cultural and political movement based on this.”) are a frequent preoccupation of Guillén’s poetry, especially his earlier works. However, I will demonstrate ...Read More

Scary Stuff! Nuclear apocalypse and the Letter of Last Resort. - By Ron Rosenbaum - Slate Magazine . No related posts. Read More

I keep on posting things from Slate but it's just so damn good! The best Web sites to help you scrimp through the recession. - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine . Related posts:Nuclear apocalypse Inside the world’s most annoying economic crisis. — ...Read More

My hosting runs out at the end of January, and I got a better deal with a different company - that deal included a free domain name, and so from now on you can access the site at http://www.smithblog.co.uk. Update ...Read More