As I was just rounding up the past calendar year, twenty-twelve, I found out that I never published my highlights of ‘11, even though I had planned to. I first did this for ’10 and I was thinking of making it a tradition. For personal sentimental reasons only, really. So I’ve decided to end this [...]
Yearly Archives: 2012
Dec
30
2012
Born Free in Salisbury
It was a lovely evening in November. The sky looked beautiful in purple by the time I walked out of the restaurant and onto the City Hall in Salisbury, for the Born Free gig Brian and Kerry were doing. It would be their second last night. I was only going to see this one, although [...]
Dec
29
2012
Stonehenge and Salisbury
Brian May and Kerry Ellis announced a few tour dates to raise awareness of the Born Free foundation and I quickly concluded I could do with a little break like this. So I checked which of their dates happened at a weekend, followed by looking up where exactly Salisbury is. At this point I didn’t [...]
Dec
28
2012
My 20×20 seconds of fame, on film
Here are both the presentations I recently did for Pecha Kecha, one in Liège and one in Maastricht. The videos show the whole presentation: 20 slides, with 20 seconds for each slide. It’s basically the same story, so seen one, seen them both. But there you have it… whaddayathink? Bookmark It Hide Sites $$(‘div.d3596′).each( [...]
Dec
27
2012
PK Maastricht
After telling the story of my famous discovery for ‘Pecha Kucha 043’ in Liège, I didn’t think they would still want me in their line up a month later in Maastricht, but I got an e-mail saying they did! There would be a whole new audience anyway and apparently they liked my talk. In the [...]