Wish yuzu were here!

Well Apple Daily’s video-re-enactments got it into real problems this week, but somehow I found this one engaging! Pity there’s no credits for this one! Wonder who did it.
This is the book I bought at the weekend. It’s an interesting read and Gladwell makes his argument clearly: “Examining the lives of outliers from Mozart to Bill Gates, he builds a convincing case for how successful people rise on a tide of advantages, “some deserved, some not, some earned, some just plain lucky”.” Check…
Hotel Collapse: This is the most enduring image of the typhoon that I reported a week or so ago as coming to Taiwan, a collapse that shocked everyone. You can see more footage here. There are lots of donations coming in for the relief effort.
If you’re not an afficianado of the 1997 movie Gattaca, you really ought to be. It’s a very prescient movie in its portrayal of how DNA testing is likely to play out in our lives in the not too distant future. We’re not just talking your standard paternity test, either. DNA tests, in the movie,…
Even at 45, I still suffer from adult acne. People used to tell me it was from eating chocolate. Rubbish. It’s hormonal. I’m not sure that chocolate really influences that part of your body, but it always used to encourage me to feel guilty when I consumed it. Why worry? Chocolate is a delightful substance: why…
It’s been a while since we moved house, almost ten years in fact. But my mother just moved house from the Highlands back to Edinburgh. Why? Well, I’m not too sure, but she seems happy to move like that every few years. Given her advancing years, her copious amounts of possessions, and my non-proximity, I…