Antipodes

I've just submitted a request to be effaced permanently from Facebook , and I'm apparently scheduled for deletion within a fortnight...

Late yesterday afternoon, in the semi-darkness, I came upon an elegant soft black-and-white leather ball in the middle of an almost-empty pa...

The American expression "leaf peeping" —which I learned from Google—designates the preoccupations of people who are enraptured by ...

Today's date has a quite binary look: 2011-11-01. For an All Saints' Day, the weather at Gamone is wonderfully mild, and even sunny ...

This short video shows memorable moments of an Arizona wedding: As you see in the video, it had been been planned that, during the ceremony,...

Here's an amusing trivia question, to test your knowledge of history. This tomb is located in an abbey in Farnborough (famous for its ai...

A French photographer, Eugène Atget [1857-1927], produced a large series of fantastic photos of the working people of Paris around 1898. One...

It took me a long time to realize that certain tools and devices can be very good for one kind of task, but totally inappropriate for an app...

John McCarthy , 84, died in his sleep last Sunday evening. Computer programmers of my generation who became interested in artificial intelli...

Often, when I notice that such-and-such an old blog post in the archives of Antipodes seems to receive numerous visits, I'm tempted to ...

This morning, while accompanying Sophia up the hill for her matinal pee, I came upon this splendid empty chrysalis, which is so light that ...

I haven't yet got around to ordering an English-language copy of the biography of Steve Jobs … not even in a digital version for my iPad...

On 20 October 2011, I wrote a blog post entitled Stopped by an airplane [ display ] concerning the death of Muammar Gaddafi . As the title...

My daughter Emmanuelle —who seems to imagine (rightly so) that her father is snowed down under tons of surplus stuff—is always delighted to ...

My mother used to tell us an amusing anecdote about a car excursion from South Grafton to the beach at Yamba. Her oldest brother, Eric Walke...

The weather at Gamone has been mild, and the dogs have been lounging around lazily in the sun. They get on wonderfully well together. This a...

At the rare times of the year when it contains water, Gamone Creek flows down past my place and through a corner of the park of André Repell...

I first got involved in photography at about the age of 11, using a Kodak Box Brownie. Almost immediately, I got around to developing my fil...

These days, the general public is being offered countless presentations of scientific conclusions concerning the origins of human beings. Th...

Details of events culminating in the death of Muammar Gaddafi have fluctuated throughout the day. It appears that the small convoy in which...