Cloud Music

I've been a subscriber to iTunes Match, Apple's online music hosting/streaming service (for want of a better moniker) for a year now and my subscription is up for renewal a week or so before Christmas. For anyone who has never heard of iTunes Match, the service essentially offers you the ability to listen to all your music from any Apple device regardless of whether that music is synced to the device. The only caveat being that...

Read More

Nexus 4

Decided to upgrade from my iPhone 4S to a Nexus 4 today. Estimated ship time of 1-2 weeks - I can't wait to get my grubby mitts on it!  &nb...

Read More

Holiday Idea #2

Burma. And more specifically Bagan.    &nb...

Read More

Species extinction

Since my last blog post, I've been thinking and reading more and more about different types of endangered species. It depresses me to think about the massive expansion of the human population across the planet and the complete disregard for any other species. I stumbled across this article today and started to read more about the big cats; jaguars, leopards, tigers and lions. Perhaps my recent holiday to Tanzania has sparked...

Read More

Tigers of India

I'm just watching a program on the BBC about the tigers of Ranthambore National Park, India, a place I visited around eighteen months ago. It's sad to see how so few tigers survive in the wild. I'd imagine if you were to conduct a poll, few would know that there are less than 3,500 surviving in the world. Take a look at the image below, yellow shows the historic roaming range of tigers, the green shows the current day range. If...

Read More

Central America 2013

Planning a trip to Central America next year. Top of the list of destinations to visit are the Mayan ruins at Chichen Itza, Mexico and Tikal, Guatemala. Is would mean I've chalked off four of the New Seven Wonders of The World. I love planning future trips! Chichen Itza Tikal Posted with Blogs...

Read More