Tag: katrina

Katrina was here

Two years on, New Orleans is struggling to rebuild after Katrina.

Originally published: 18 Jan 2008 in North America

Nature’s way

My mother has a name for this kind of weather. She calls it “germ weather”. The kind of weather, she says, that you catch colds in. Spare a thought for Gary then, one of the managers at work, who was all set for escaping these miserable climes in favour of the blessed sun of Cancun, …

Originally published: 24 Oct 2005 in Personalia

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Ars Electronica

Is it a museum, an exhibition space or an annual festival? Or is it all three? We were none the wiser after our visit!

Goodbye to RM!

It’s time to say goodbye to a good employer. I’m moving back to Yorkshire.

  • Originally published: 13 Apr 2006 in Editorial

Three Days of De Panne

Easter weekend started early as we headed up to the Flemish coast at De Panne.

  • Originally published: 5 Apr 2010 in Europe

Iceland 1.0

Our first trip to Iceland. Here’s a retrospective of photos scanned from the prints.

  • Originally published: 29 Mar 2004 in Europe

Looking for Richard

Al Pacino gets behind and in front of the camera to tell us how much Shakespeare moves him.

  • Originally published: 15 Jan 2007 in Film

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Hello you, I'm Mike Padgett. I'm not a Princeton curator, Knoxville mayoral candidate, Kentuckian pastor or Arizona journalist, I just share the same name. In fact, I am a consultant working in user experience and information design.

I also enjoy travel, concerts, films and walking.

I'm originally from Yorkshire, England but nowadays I live in Belgium. My current favourite Belgian beer is Black Albert.

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Dopeology.org

Over a year in the making, Dopeology.org is my latest personal project: a topology of doping in thirty years of European pro road cycling.

I collected information from thousands of sources, then I modelled and published it via a lightweight user interface.

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