Archive for September, 2008

My time in Silkeborg and reflecting back

By Allix Davis - Last updated: Sunday, September 28, 2008

I have decided to ride the whole week through and then write everything that I saw and did in one post. Silkeborg for those that do not know  is city, and is at the center of Silkeborg commune ( that’s what they are called over there, nothing at all to do with hippy living) in [...]

Tim Berners-Lee (web creator) on misleading information

By Allix Davis - Last updated: Monday, September 15, 2008

With the growing popularity of sites promoting cults and false accusations on anything from science to politics , it can be very hard for some to distinguish fact from fiction . This article discusses such problems with excerpts from the creator of the world wide web. A possible solution that I have just thought about [...]

Creationism must not be taught in schools

By Allix Davis - Last updated: Saturday, September 13, 2008

With the news that Michael Reiss, director of education at the Royal Society putting forward that creationism should be discussed in schools and simply not ignored is missing a very important part of public education. Schools are to provide children with the knowledge that society benefits from, and not everything parents believe their kids should [...]

Book obsessions

By Allix Davis - Last updated: Monday, September 8, 2008

I am literally swamped in my room with books, it is slowly becoming a problem. One sensible solution would be to borrow from the library. I have on numerable occasions done just that. Why I don’t do that all the time fizzles down to a book fetish. Books to me are just as about the [...]

Change Change Change Change Change Change Change Change !!!

By Allix Davis - Last updated: Friday, September 5, 2008

Obama has been going on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on about how change is going happen when he gets elected , I love to chuckle to myself when I hear him say that and the mottos that surround the propaganda campaign that the soviet [...]

Photos are now on flickr

By Allix Davis - Last updated: Thursday, September 4, 2008

I had a good short stay and while monika was at classes I went on a stroll to take some photos. They are some beautiful views to look at. Lastly the local people are very friendly, as soon as we arrived in Avignon train station a couple offered us a ride to the hotel. Once [...]

Last few days in Avignon

By Allix Davis - Last updated: Tuesday, September 2, 2008

A journey is hoped to run according to plan, this one went slightly wrong. Catching the Eurostar from St Pancras went without an issue. Arriving in Nord du Paris we had to aboard another train to Avignon, which was at another train station in Paris. Of course for passengers such as ourselves that have never [...]