by Andy Dodd | Oct 27, 2014 | Reviews
This is going to be a review of Steve Hackett and Genesis Revisited. But before we go dancing with volcanoes and moonlit knights, I want to take you on a different, perhaps unexpected, trip down music’s memory lane. Back in 1983 when Nick Beggs was playing...
by Andy Dodd | Oct 20, 2014 | Arts, Photography
I was recuperating in Wales from a knee operation recently and had the good fortune to be able to take this picture of the countryside near Abergavenny, just as the sun was breaking through the clouds and shining down onto a small corner of the landscape. It reminded...
by Andy Dodd | Oct 18, 2014 | Technology
In the world of John Elfreth Watkins, an American futurologist who lived at the end of the nineteenth century, if you wanted to preserve information for future generations, you wrote it down or printed it. But since the turn of the century, HP has already shipped...
by Andrew Dodd | Oct 15, 2014 | Travel
In August 2013, we spent a week in Yellowstone National Park, which was the same humbling feeling you always experience whenever you get close up to Big Nature. Don’t be fooled by the tarmac roads and well lit camps. Humanity can lose itself here, in every...
by Andy Dodd | Oct 12, 2014 | Travel
The interesting thing about flying is being able to see the division between brown and green, the weird demarcations between human ambition and nature’s conservatism, between the rapid and the hurried, and the patient and the timeless. In some places, the...