Last Winter, I went on vacation to Southeast Asia with my girlfriend, and one of our stops was Monkey Island, near Nha Trang, Vietnam. Apparently the island was used for laboratory research by Russians in the past, and at some point the labs were abandoned and the monkeys were left to roam free. They have… [Read More]
Weekend Reading: Camping Weekend Edition + A List of WordPress Plugins That I Use
Here is your weekend reading: Site Changes I’ve recently added a popular posts plugin, which shows the 5 most popular posts along the right sidebar. Since the statistics only started being collected as of yesterday, the rankings are biased in favor of the most recent posts. I’ve also added a top commentators plugin. I’m displaying… [Read More]
Opening up new frontiers
Much of human history has been about opening up new frontiers, in exploration, science, and technology. It started when we spread out of Africa, many millennia ago, and continued when men and women spread into the Americas, and Europeans later came and invaded the “new world”, in part to explore unknown lands, and in part… [Read More]