Overlanding

Posted on Thu 18 July 2013 in Random

So, for the last 6 weeks I've been over-landing from Cape Town to Nairobi. I decided to ditch almost all of my tech for the trip. My Samsung Galaxy S3 and my Thinkpad were replaced with an old school phone and a notepad. I also picked up a tiny little …


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Why Study Philosophy

Posted on Tue 26 June 2012 in Random

Yesterday I finished my final exam in a course I was taking in philosophy and I figured now was a good time to explain the question everyone asks when I tell him what I'm studying. Why study philosophy? To be honest, my answers were always pretty poor, mostly I'd say …


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Vegetarian

Posted on Sat 07 May 2011 in Random

Deciding to become vegetarian is not an easy step. I decided to dip my toe in the water at the start of the year by trying a month of not eating meat, I would highly recommend everyone try this at least once just to see what it might be like …


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The Power of Nightmares

Posted on Tue 28 December 2010 in Random

I always wondered why, if the UK/US were at war with terrorism, why they always made such fantastic declarations about how powerful terrorists were and that they had infiltrated all elements of society? Surely this would simply add more gas to the fire and prolong the effect of the …


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