Is THIS the Biggest Environmental Issue Facing Indonesia?
Ladies, gentlemen, environmentalists. Allow me to introduce the Aqua cup, or “Aqua gelas”, a single-use, single-cup serving of water that is designed to be thrown...
Category: Wibble
On Reading Brave New World in Singapore
Brave New World is one of those books that… Well, I won’t exactly say that everyone has read it, but I’d imagine most people feel...
5 Stupid Political Parties
I’m not sure whether it’s a measure of apathy in the face of imminent enviro-disaster, a factor of our cat-picture-shrunken attention spans, or the information...
#BoycottBali? Nuh-Uh
The impending execution of two of the “Bali Nine”, Australians shopped to Indonesian authorities by Australian police for trying to smuggle heroin into Australia, has...
Why I’ll Never Be a Professional Travel Blogger
There have been a flood of posts lately explaining why being a travel blogger is really, really hard. It isn’t, obviously. It’s not subsistence farming...
Do Atheists Celebrate Christmas?
Procrastinating on Twitter the other day, I saw a thread about the “most irritating questions atheists are asked”, courtesy, of course, of Richard Dawkins, whose...
The Blog Posts I Didn’t Write in 2014
Ah, 2014! A corker of a year. We’ve settled down in Bali, got ourselves more or less sorted out, done lots of interesting travel, entertained...
10 Things You (Probably) Didn’t Know About Mobile Phones
Could YOU do without a mobile phone while travelling? Given 57% of women in America would (allegedly) rather use their smartphone than have sex, and...
Some Notes on Non-Communication – Not Dead Yet
Blogging is a curious beast. And, picking up a blog when you haven’t posted in a while is a bit like picking up the phone...
Signs of the Times: Chinglish Edition
The Communist Party of China, in its infinite wisdom, is about to remove one of the most reliable sources of visitor entertainment, the Chinglish sign....