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2011: In Review

Overall, 2011 has proved to be a positive year for me.  My wife Caelia and I moved into our new home, which has a room set-aside for my study.  Four months after we moved, our son Michael was born (yes, we did move in the midst of pregnancy). On a professional level, my writing has…
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Read, Watched, and Recommended

Caelia and I watched Day 7, the most recent season, of 24, and I have to say that it is one of their best to date. After the terrible Day 6, this dramatic improvement in quality was needed in order to restore faith in both the series, and the format. Replacing the incrementally epic adventures…
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This is not the baby you’re looking for.

As many of you may know by now, science-fiction strongly appeals to me, and thus the SciFi Weekend (later renamed Movie-Mania) at the Leicester Space Centre was one I had looked forward to for sometime. Ever since I blackmailed Caelia into going, after a week night once spent scouring the local 24 hour supermarkets (only…
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A Pitch Black Lunar Eclipse

Saturday night witnessed a rare lunar phenomenon, namely a total eclipse of the moon by the earth’s shadow. Having been fortunate enough to witness the previous lunar eclipse in 1998, and being forewarned by Caelia, we walked through Straith Woods to enjoy one of natures own light shows.