Category Archives: Environment

Beauty and misery

Nature, it seems, is not without a sense of irony. Or how else would you explain the beauty in these pictures, taken just two months after what is turning out be the worst ever natural disaster by oil: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/06/oil_in_the_gulf_two_months_lat.html - 37 pictures of the gulf of mexico / BP oil spill. Some of those pics are [...]

Hot hot hot

St Petersburg. Hotel room. Aircon blowing only hot air. I’m melting…

Links galore

I don’t generally care much about youtube, never have, but this one I just have to share: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgbNymZ7vqY Totally hilarious. You might notice that there’s a neat twist to avoid any references to violence (suitable for children), and some of the lyrics are not original… <chuckle> And since I’m on it, here’s two more: Ever [...]

Print preview

If you’re an obsessive compulsory print-a-holic, printing everything regardless if you’ll ever read it or not, here’s a free tip for you: print preview. Use it. You’ll be amazed how much paper you can save by checking before printing how many pages that one innocuous click would yield. Also in many programs – Internet Explorer [...]

Planting trees

Today I planted two trees. Well actually I mostly just moved them from a nearby forest to my property. My house is surrounded by trees that are too near the house, and I have to cut some of them down in the coming years, so I’m trying to plant a little cover from prying eyes [...]