Here a place to dump them until I have something better to do with them! Read them when you're feeling blue...
http://www.nature.com/news/speaking-science-to-power-1.10647
By night I am a student, web-developer and computer programmer; by day, a traveller, reader, writer and nature-lover.
I adore French, and there is a book on this site that I am in the process of compiling which will draw in the various bits of knowledge I pick up on my travels and learning.
I have much experience with computing: including a year's paid internship for QinetiQ; a summer program on robotics at SciTech, Technion, Haifa; and three year's study at Imperial College, London.
I currently maintain the Chabad on Campus UK website. I designed it according to defined restrictions and wrote custom modules for the "branches" and "universities". I run it voluntarily, so don't have much time to keep it updated.
This site is for whatever takes my fancy, there is no particular agenda. Occasionally something - usually politics related - will irritate me, and it's a good a place as any to vent! The blog is sporadically updated, as is everything else! The talented drawing is by my sister, who insisted I display her artwork. It's supposed to be a cow :)
Other work includes:
In my free time, I enjoy travelling (both solo and with others). I read many, many books and enjoy writing prose and poetry. I have also written a few articles for Live!, Imperial College's online news centre, and Felix, our newspaper. I love cooking and coming up with new recipes to try out on my friends. They never say no! I also go for long walks in the countryside and have participated in a conservation program in New Zealand.

This is me at a poetry reading I was invited to give. The review in Felix called my style "quirky, unique, semi-rap".
Here a place to dump them until I have something better to do with them! Read them when you're feeling blue...
http://www.nature.com/news/speaking-science-to-power-1.10647
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2012/05/history-of-self-im...
Starting with Dido, and ending with Morrison. Fascinating stuff.
a perpetuall and restless desire of Power after power, that ceaseth only in Death. And the cause of this, is not alwayes that a man hopes for a more intensive delight, than he has already attained to; or that he cannot be content with a moderate power: but because he cannot assure the power and means to live well, which he hath present, without the acquisition of more.
From Julia Lovell's "The Opium War", hard-copy p.95: "The integrity of [the Foreign Office, Downing Street] - a rickety amalgam of two eighteenth century houses - was threatened by the weight of the printing apparatus up in the attic, which sent ominous cracks through the building. Palmerston was so dissatisfied with the accommodation that when a fire started in one of the rooms in 1836, he...