Posts from year 2003
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One night in Bangkok
Bangkok doesn’t sleep. It sweats, hazzles and seduces. It’s a neon fever dream that hits you like a tuk-tuk running red lights at 3 am. A city with no filters, no cares and certainly no apologies.
Diving at the Similan Islands
Out there, somewhere off the Andaman coast of Thailand, are nine chunks of granite scattered like a careless god’s afterthought. The Similan Islands are remote, wild and blissfully ignored by the sunburned herds sipping cheap cocktails in Phuket. This is where you go when you crave the silence of the deep.
Finding the beach in Phi Phi Islands
Thailand has long been one of the great stops on the backpacker pilgrimage. People arrive by the planeload for cheap food, cheaper beer, relentless sunshine and beaches so offensively beautiful they seem designed specifically to make everyone back home hate you.
The temples of Chiang Mai
Chiang Mai is the biggest city in northern Thailand, but far more friendly than it’s chaotic sibling Bangkok. Up here in the north, the heat is less suffocating than Bangkok’s chokehold, but it still clings to your skin like a bad Nickelback song.
Patterns in storytelling
You have probably read a book and recognized many of the story lines without having read it before. There are certain patterns which are very common in literature and tends to show up in all sorts of colorful disguises.
Lonely day in Helsinki
Helsinki isn’t the kind of place that throws itself at you. No loud cheers, no fake smiles. It stands there, quiet and desolate, like a Finn at a bus stop in February with a fur coat zipped high, eyes stoically fixed on some distant point beyond the horizon.
Layers of history in Rome
The layers of Rome don’t politely hide under glass. They spill out into the streets, tangled with modern life like a drunken uncle at a wedding. Young lovers hide among broken columns while a noisy Vespa drives along the heavily trafficked Via dei Fori Imperiali.
The road to web standards
Think of web standards as an attempt to make the web behave itself. They are a collection of technologies and recommendations designed to increase the chances that a web site will actually work.
Tales of San Francisco
As I admired the sunset from the hill above Golden Gate bridge, the city of San Francisco glittered far away in the dying light. This city doesn’t need an introduction. Even if you’ve never set foot here, you’ve already been.