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Tag: 2025

11 October 202526 December 2025

Lawyers & Bears

What do lawyers and bears have in common? I’m not sure, but given the choice, I’ll pick the bear.

4 October 202526 December 2025

All About Toilets

Japanese toilets are something else! So were Mongolian toilets, through in a different way. Given their fancy toilets, why does Japan have such awful toilet paper?

27 September 202526 December 2025

The Japanese Rubbish Mystery

When in Japan, where do you put your rubbish, given the complete lack of public bins?

20 September 202526 December 2025

Routine

Routines are hard things to escape, even when you leave the country…

12 September 202526 December 2025

Smelling the Snowdrops

When it’s time to slow down and smell the snowdrops…

6 September 202526 December 2025

Talking about weight

Ozempic is everywhere…one of a new class of weight loss drugs promising reduced body mass and increased health. Are the claims real? And what are the downsides?

30 August 202526 December 2025

Things I Don’t Understand (2)

Why has NZ repaired a bell tower for $10 million, then fired the only person who can ring the bells? And why has Fonterra sold off all its added value products? So many mysteries in todays world…

23 August 202526 December 2025

Avatars are Us

Thanks to AI you, or Donald Trump, can be many places at once as an online video of yourself…

16 August 202526 December 2025

Learning & Forgetting

Life is a continual process of learning – be it software or how to work with people. Life would be so much easier if I didn’t forget what I’ve learned…

9 August 202529 December 2025

Hope & Despair

There’s plastic waste everywhere on the Mongolian steppes…what to do?

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