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Something went weird with the colours in these photos, and I couldn't quite fix them up satisfactorily in Photoshop. I'll have to play around a bit with my lighting setup next time.

And it's true. Writing something designed to convince someone to do something is very different to just writing. You realise this the first time you need to write a proposal for a project ...

Visiting different cultures really is mind-expanding. It really brings home the fact that the way you live and the way you do things aren't the only ways to live or do things. Around the world, people do all sorts of things in infinitely varied ways. You might think you have some idea what a foreign place is like, but you never really know until you've been there, and there a...

The background seen through the airport windows here is a photo I took of the sunrise at Sydney airport. Yeah, it's no fun having to be at the airport that early.

What was even more interesting though was the taxi driver who took me there. The whole trip, he kept complaining about how mechanically bad his taxi was. He said he'd had it in the workshop several times in ...

Seeing this comic completed now as I try to come up with something to write here, I realise I made the right choice for X's face, with that lopsided quizzical smile/sneer thing going on.

Mesopotamia is a geographic region, defined by the Tigris and Euphrates river systems. In the modern world, it corresponds largely to Iraq and Kuwait, with small parts of Syria, Iran, and Turkey.

In the ancient world, Mesopotamia was the location of several civilisation...