New blog!

After Slorpedo sneaked in to our travel blog, I thought a new blog to hide all my more geeky/ranty postings in might be a good idea! So here it is: Notes from a small field

Next stop.... Brighton!

After splashing out on a trip to New York in the spring, this year's summer holiday will be a night in Brighton!! We seem to have picked a tiny lull between the TUC and Lib Dem conferences, so that should be nice. I spied a doughnut stand on the pier which I had to walk past last time- no chance of that happening twice! Mmmmm, doughnuts!

After two amazing weekends SLorpedo was finally ready for an eager public to try the first few games...

It's a one handed game so a bottle of beer helps avoid inadvertant cheating:


Placing the playing board directly in front of the big screen lets the contestants' shadows join in:


There are sound effects as well as smoke:


Viewing the action in Second Life before the pre-party 4th birthday crowd arrived:


Video from the real world should be available soon to match the Second Life action.

Nice view but it was flippin cold at the top of the empire state building. Still, at least I had some film unlike the first time I was here:

Somehow I managed to con Jo into having a look round the UN! It's interesting, honest! Anyway, here's one of the rooms they argue in:

Much better view without those two idiots in the way from the other side:

Nice and sunny the rest of the time though- here's us catching the rays at the top of the rock:

We some how managed to pick the wettest day to visit the statue of liberty, as you can see from this pic back across to manhatten:

Bit of a delay but here are a few of the photos that came out ok from New York. First up, a well known statue:

We're off on holiday again. This time to New York and instead of blogging we're giving twitter a try...

http://twitter.com/jtonline

There she blows!

One of the few snaps of our mad glacier hike (too busy climbing up, over, through, round, between, accross a large lump of ice to stop and take photos!)

(17th time lucky! Time to get broadband I think!)

Us with our trusty van (the smaller one!), which took us 4,200 kms and only suffered one minor injury when I drove off without unplugging the power cable!

Some giant marbles (the Moeraki Boulders)...

Photos (and home) at last! A bit spaced out after spending what seems like three days on a plane, so straight to some pics now I can get them here!

First stop was Singapore, which we had a pretty good view of out of our hotel room...