Alkam’s blog Vox 2009-07-03T19:19:58Z Alkam http://alkam.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00ccff8d72a34064/ Evening the Odds As Children at the Feet of an Angel tag:vox.com,2009-06-28:asset-6a00ccff8d72a34064011017e4f020860e 2009-06-28T23:35:01Z 2009-07-03T19:19:58Z Alkam http://alkam.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Angel of the North

Just a bit of a picture postcard from near Newcastle. This was taken at the foot of the Angel of the North, a rather interesting monument which keeps watch over the countryside. I decided to choose the black and white look for this image simply ...

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]]> Lost Without You tag:vox.com,2009-05-24:asset-6a00ccff8d72a340640110182a62de860f 2009-05-24T22:32:11Z 2009-08-12T20:22:32Z Alkam http://alkam.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Delta Goodrem - Lost Without You (US Version)

I still play CDs in my car. I know some people prefer to have iPods and mp3 players playing all their favourite tracks these days, but when it comes to in-car audio I'm stuck with either the radio or the CD player. One of the things about CDs is ...

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]]> Horatio Caine Opening Lines tag:vox.com,2009-02-06:asset-6a00ccff8d72a34064011015e72c5c860b 2009-02-06T23:46:43Z 2009-02-06T23:46:43Z Alkam http://alkam.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

CSI Miami Joke

I found a thread on an online forum of funny (and not-so-funny) jokes of lines Horatio Caine might say just before the opening credits roll on CSI: Miami. I thought this one was rather amusing!

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]]> Life in Technicolor tag:vox.com,2008-12-24:asset-6a00ccff8d72a34064010980c36bd0000b 2008-12-24T18:46:54Z 2009-04-06T16:21:54Z Alkam http://alkam.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Coldplay - Life in Technicolor

I really like the way this song from Coldplay starts off a little slow, and then gradually builds up. It's like climbing up out of a dark ditch, and into the bright warm sunshine! :) Merry Christmas!

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]]> A Stroke of Insight tag:vox.com,2008-08-31:asset-6a00ccff8d72a3406400fa969605a10002 2008-08-31T21:44:29Z 2008-11-14T23:26:34Z Alkam http://alkam.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

How it feels to have a stroke

I'd recenty heard an intriguing interview where Jill Bolte Taylor who is a neuroanatomist, talked of her remarkable experiences of having a stroke in the left hemisphere of her brain. She describes some of these experiences in the lecture shown be...

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]]> Breaking the Cycle tag:vox.com,2008-07-03:asset-6a00ccff8d72a3406400fa9683f1080002 2008-07-03T08:32:35Z 2009-04-06T11:48:54Z Alkam http://alkam.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Inspiration

Ever spent a lot of time going nowhere fast? Well, yesterday I was going round in a circle many times trying to find a parking space and not getting anywhere in particular. Normally I have no trouble getting parking spaces, so this was a rather u...

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]]> Time-travel, meeting myself, and going bananas tag:vox.com,2008-06-20:asset-6a00ccff8d72a3406400fad69221d50005 2008-06-20T00:28:34Z 2008-06-22T07:19:23Z Alkam http://alkam.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Sleeping Among the Awake

I recently had a chance to go back in time. Well, it was more in the historical sense, rather than physically undertaking time-travel. I was able to use the Wayback Machine's nifty little web-archiving service to peek at a few webpages as they ha...

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]]> Golden Acre Park Revisited tag:vox.com,2008-06-08:asset-6a00ccff8d72a3406400fa967d2cc10003 2008-06-08T20:11:00Z 2008-06-08T23:28:37Z Alkam http://alkam.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Yellow Fungus Squirrel on a tree Leaf Closeup Bin and Bench Park Bench Purple Flower

I was working on a presentation I have to present tomorrow for quite some time today, and I thought I'd just about had enough of it after concentrating on it for several hours. As it was such a nice day, I felt that I needed to unwind a bit, a...

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]]> Spofforth Castle tag:vox.com,2008-05-26:asset-6a00ccff8d72a3406400fad68b75100004 2008-05-26T13:45:44Z 2008-05-27T22:55:12Z Alkam http://alkam.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Spofforth Castle 26/05/08 Spofforth castle 26/05/08 More Spofforth castle 26/05/08 The front of Spofforth castle

This is Spofforth Castle, a ruined manor house halfway between Wetherby and Harrogate. It's quite small, but worth going to have a quick look and walk around. I ended up here on a random drive today. What was really funny was there were a famil...

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]]> Stop and Stare tag:vox.com,2008-05-17:asset-6a00ccff8d72a3406400fa96765ba30003 2008-05-17T22:43:49Z 2008-05-17T22:43:49Z Alkam http://alkam.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

David Jordan - Stop and Stare

Jo Whiley interviewed David Jordan recently on BBC Radio 1. They played his cover of OneRepublic's Stop and Stare. I have to say that, personally, I prefer this cover to the original. Have a listen and see what you feel!

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