Several reasons. Partly as a playground for me, Marcus, to post useful links and experiences, partly a way to maintain my interest in Wordpress, CSS and web design, and also as a showcase for my business interests, travel and people phorographs, and anything else I feel like using it for. I’ve also been registering domain names since 1996, and this was one I had in the collection. I spotted it fairly randomly and thought, wouldn’t it be nice to have the email address m@rcus.co.uk. Now that my business interests span several online companies that seem to be ever evolving I decided it would be a good idea to try and keep at least one constant address that stays with me, regardless of what happens to my company interests. The next obvious step was to use the domain for an online space, where friends and colleagues can keep track where I am, what I am doing and what I have to say. Thanks for stopping by to take a look.
First swim of the season in Saaremaa
Most people who haven’t spent time in the Baltics seem to think that you’d need to be bonkers to swim in the sea here. The fact is that the Baltic sea, especially in the area around my Summer base of Saaremaa, is very pleasant. Compared to swimming in the hot bath that is the Gulf around Dubai at this time of year, I would take the Baltic on any hot Summer’s day.
The current temperature of the sea [early July] is between 22c and 25c. Once y0u’re in that’s really quite pleasant. Beaches are clean, vast, and mainly empty. You’re never far from the coast in Saaremaa. Another little known fact about the Baltic in this region is that it’s almost like swimming in fresh water. The very low salt content is due to the fresh water run-off from the land. On a calm day it’s like swimming in a lake. With very long hours of daylight from June to September, an evening swim in the Baltic is a perfect way to enjoy the sunset and views of neighbouring islands. Come and try it…
Just arrived back on Saaremaa for the summer and found a few new things. Other than a nastly cold acquired most likely due to the change in temperature from 45c to 15c I see a few more supermarkets selling the same old stuff. I did find a few noteworthy products on the shelves. Here are the [...]
During a busy schedule of meetings in California this month we happened to be outside the Mountain View, CA, office of Google Inc. Couldn’t resist the opportunity for a picture. I had the caption already written.
I started an internet company in 1997. Unfortunately it wasn’t this one.
I’ve been meaning to get this online for many years. Thanks to my good friend Gary for use of his VHS to DVD converter I now have this rare footage of me at the 1988 BMX Freestyle World Cup on YouTube.
Didn’t need much of an excuse to travel from Thailand to Australia. Although I did manage to find one that at least made some sense. Christmas is certainly different in the summer sunshine. Must find some more words for an experience that has so far included a week in the city of Brisbane, 2 weeks residing on [...]
Happy New Year to all. Now that I’ve realised I’m on an ad-hoc world tour I thought it must be time to make sure the adventure is documented. From a vague plan to cross the desert from Dubai to Oman and back in a single day “visa run”, I now find myself in sunny Brisbane, [...]
Reporting from Koh Samui. Everyone I spoke to about Koh Samui said it was beautiful. As we had to leave UAE as part of Lyyli’s visa conditions and had the chance of a few weeks in Thailand it seemed like a good opportunity to see some of the country. With an iBooking customer offering a [...]
As the Gulf News is delivered to our room each morning I’ve managed to find time to read at least a few pages every day. Although I’ve been visiting Dubai for several years I’ve never really noticed the unusual style of written English. It doesn’t seem to matter what the article is, the language is just [...]