Don McLean came to Glastonbury and sang folk, pop, country and rock. He even sang “Sea Man” – an acapella song he wrote 30 years ago while living in Israel. He sang songs from five decades. He sang Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley and demonstrated his own legendary singer-songwriter status with four of his top-10 hits, […]
Read MoreMy research student, Balarabe Getso, is about to commence his wet season field work on the River Kallawa in Kano State, Nigeria. I intend to join him later in the summer. Our research project is concerned with endocrine disrupting substances in aquatic environments. This has become a well researched subject in Europe and North America […]
Read MoreMy probability model of Eurovision Song Contest voting is predicting victory for Azerbaijan in tonight’s contest in Oslo. The model has a high success rate but this year the contest is more open than normal with several countries in with a shout. Predictions for the top-10 are: 1. Azerbaijan 1.14 2. Armenia 1.56 3. Israel […]
Read More“my bing map 2.0” is a new Web 2.0 application that creates a live feed from sites like flickr, twitter and wikipedia based on the visitor’s chosen location. Unlike my previous interactive maps, this is based on Microsoft’s bing map api, which is likely to prove strong competition for google maps. visit the new site […]
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