Damek.

Long ago in a distant time forgotten by even the elders of our current age, my mother took me to Australia to visit her penpal. It was her first time meeting her penpal after corresponding with her for about 30 years (then, over 40 now!). Her penpal originally lived in India, but moved [...]

OK, here’s the deal. I’ve promised a bunch of people (well, two) that I would tell of my experiences in Oxford here on the blog. I haven’t done it yet. Sorry. It’s now a month after I returned from my week vacation with Alex, and I’m going to have a go [...]

After a birthday and going-away party in midtown for one of Alex’s coworkers, we elected to walk home through the park, and though I tried to take some pics with my camera phone, they all turned out crap. Alex took some regular pictures, though, of which these turned out great for desktop wallpaper. [...]

My old mobile phone of 3+ years finally conked out, and I had to buy a new one. Here are the first few pics I took with it… [over in a gallery album] [nope, now at flickr]

I’ve been wondering why, with real genocide occurring in Sudan, the world hasn’t acted. It’s no mystery why George W. Bush has turned a blind eye - Iraq was never really about saving Iraqis (and the real reasons for the Iraq war don’t apply in Sudan), and our forces are spread too thin to [...]