Reading Time: < 1 minute I’ve covered Kiva a few times over the years I’ve been ‘lending’ through it, so I thought I’d put up a post about where I […] Read More
Category: politics
Reading Time: 6 minutes One thing that seems to happen all over the world, are hoaxes and frauds, like Piltdown Man, crop circles and Justin Bieber being a lizard, to […] Read More
Reading Time: 6 minutes It’s been 15 months since the Great East Japan Earthquake, and almost exactly a year since I was last in Iwate prefecture, where we were […] Read More
Reading Time: 2 minutes I don’t usually stray into the world of politics on this blog, it’s [hopefully] meant to be informative and constructive, rather than a critique of […] Read More
Reading Time: 4 minutes I like watching documentaries, often of topics I have only a basic knowledge of, and whilst some are great, many are often flawed or too skewed. I […] Read More
Reading Time: 6 minutes Chances are if you go to buy bread in Japan, the vast majority of it in most supermarkets comes from the Yamazaki Baking Co. and […] Read More
Reading Time: 2 minutes So, after a long time of ‘going to‘, I finally made a loan via micro-finance site, kiva.org. Kiva.org basically take money invested by normal people […] Read More
Reading Time: < 1 minute Well, it seems another region is looking at an interesting copyright law. The EU is about to vote on IPRED 2 [Intellectual Property Enforcement Directive […] Read More
Reading Time: < 1 minute It was good to see some good news come from the project to produce a USD100 laptop for poor regions and developing countries. Nicholas Negroponte, […] Read More
Reading Time: < 1 minute It’s been a while since I observed any news from this man, which is more a reflection of me being busy as I’m sure not […] Read More