Tag: wright

Atonement

This adaptation of the novel is both period piece and manipulative melodrama.

Originally published: 4 Feb 2008 in Film

Hot Fuzz

Not caught by the Fuzz: this British parody of American buddy cop movies is rather tepid.

Originally published: 25 Feb 2007 in Film

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Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

The Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen is one of the better reasons to visit Rotterdam.

La Molignée

Walking through the fields and lanes of a shallow river valley near the famous abbey of Maredsous.

  • Originally published: 22 Nov 2009 in Walking

Caye Caulker

Island life: Caye Caulker’s motto is ‘go slow’ and here visitors learn to take the rough with the smooth.

  • Originally published: 29 Dec 2011 in Belize

Do you want advice with that?

Free motivational messages with my morning coffee.

  • Originally published: 15 Jul 2011 in Humour

The Templars

A millenium of pre-Templar history condensed into fifty taut pages. Sadly, Catholicism appointed itself the editor of the one that followed.

  • Originally published: 28 Sep 2008 in Books

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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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