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Signs of Winter: December 20, 2008; Video of an underground electrical short circuit in New York probably caused by salt corrosion.
Inflation - Thanksgiving 2008: November 26, 2008; Eavesdropping at the balloon inflation the night before Thanksgiving confirms what most children know: parents don't listen.
November again: November 2, 2008; It's November. Do you know where your novel is? More to the point, do I?
What's in a name?: October 25, 2008; Your neighborhood bar is the place where people know your name; if we could just get them to remember the bar's name as well, we'd be onto something.
One Fish Two Fish: September 27, 2008; The bluefish are running.
Notting Hill '08: August 29, 2008; Some photographs and observations from London's Notting Hill Carnival.
Photowalk: August 23, 2008; Some pictures from the NYC Chinatown photowalk, part of Scott Kelby's worldwide photowalk.
Useful number: August 21, 2008; Brian Conley and other citizen journalists are being held in Beijing: here's a number that you can call.
Detained in Beijing: August 20, 2008; My friend Brian Conley from Alive in Baghdad has been detained in Beijing.
Olafur: June 28, 2008; Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson has installed four giant waterfalls in New York
Toy Tower: May 12, 2008; The Toy Tower, a ramshackle wooden structure towering over Avenue B on Manhattan's Lower East Side, is due to be taken down.
Study war no more: April 25, 2008; Internet startups blip.tv and Pando face off on the paintball field, and everyone gets covered in yellow paint
Mumbai Rail: January 10, 2008; The suburban railway system in Mumbai may be the most complex and heavily loaded in the world.
Indglish: January 7, 2008; English as she is spoke and written, Indian-style
Tea with the sadhu: January 2, 2008; A tea break with the residents of a Hanuman shrine in Khajuraho.
A tale of two trucks: October 11, 2007; A short truck ride in the Fan Mountains.
Strange days indeed: October 11, 2007; Only in Tajikistan can a ride in a shared taxi turn into an industrial spelunking expedition.
The Gray Plague: October 8, 2007; The police in Dushanbe are everywhere ... and they have too much time on their hands.
In the Pamirs: October 4, 2007; Photographs taken in the Pamirs, near the Khargush Pass
Checkpoint: October 4, 2007; Chance encounters in the desert.
Bibi Fatima: October 3, 2007; A visit to the hot springs of the Wakhan Valley.
Howo Kush: October 2, 2007; Strange things happen on the road to Khorog.
Tavildara Road: October 1, 2007; Taking the old road from Dushanbe to Khorog.
Bag: September 30, 2007; The Curse of Heathrow strikes again.
San Gennaro: September 16, 2007; The Feast of San Gennaro comes to Little Italy.
Sarasota: June 26, 2007; A handful of pictures from a trip to Sarasota, FL.
Birds and the Bees (and Crabs): May 31, 2007; Love is in the air (for wild turkeys and mind-blowingly ancient arthropods).
(It's a) Burning Car: May 24, 2007; A car spontaneously combusts in the street outside.
Dance Parade 2007: May 19, 2007; Dancers vote with their feet (hips, hands and other body parts) to protest New York's archaic cabaret laws.
Great Saunter 2007: May 5, 2007; Here we go round the island again.
Fire and Police: April 4, 2007; High drama - and a touch of farce - on the streets of New York.
Eclipse: March 3, 2007; Some photographs of the March 3rd lunar eclipse.
Confession: February 8, 2007; I am an unrepentant criminal. Here is my confession.
Britain from above: January 25, 2007; Some aerial photographs of mountain scenery in Britain, taken from a commercial flight.
DDoS'd: January 17, 2007; disoriented.net is back after being taken down by a DDoS attack.
Rhymes with 'Flymo': November 29, 2006; NaNoWriMo has my soul again
Paraty: July 24, 2006; Paraty pushes the envelope in its relentless pursuit of the picturesque.
Babel: July 21, 2006; Note to self: Portuguese is not just a funny kind of Spanish.
Pantsed by God: July 16, 2006; The Atlantic ocean wants your swimsuit.
To Rio: July 15, 2006; Photographs and musings on the way to Rio de Janeiro.
Ceçi n'est pas un blog: July 9, 2006; A couple of blogs that I'd like you to check out.
From the Air: June 23, 2006; Some cloudscapes and aerial photographs.
Gardens on the march: May 13, 2006; A march for community gardens visits the Lower East Side.
Great Saunter 2006: May 7, 2006; The Great Saunter 2006: another thirty-two miles round Manhattan's rim.
Lost in America: April 20, 2006; One thing I like about New York is the chance to see live music.
Erawan: March 22, 2006; The Brahma statue at Bangkok's Erawan Shrine has been smashed by a mentally-ill man.
Snow: February 12, 2006; It's snowing in New York. A lot.
Global Village Epiphany: January 31, 2006; Teatime in the global village.
Furthur (V): January 23, 2006; All this, and a deep-frozen monk too.
Furthur (IV): January 22, 2006; Another day in the life of a Cambodian roadside photographer.
Furthur: January 19, 2006; A road trip from Phnom Penh to Sisophon.
Mortality: January 18, 2006; How the other half dies.
Phnom Penh: January 17, 2006; Back to Phnom Penh, which hasn't changed much in a year and a half.
Triskaideaphobia: January 13, 2006; On the move again.
Going downhill fast: December 31, 2005; Recent arrests and trials of opposition figures bode ill for Cambodia's fragile democracy.
Sic transit: December 20, 2005; The first day of the New York transit strike wasn't so bad - for me at least.
Election Fever: November 5, 2005; Mayoral candidate Fernando Ferrer visits the Lower East Side.
Potemkin East: October 30, 2005; Drug-crazed Hollywood film-makers build Berkeley on the Lower East Side, call it Greenwich Village.
Down with the Mahdi Army: June 21, 2005; It's raining in Mae Hong Son, and I cannot decide if I should buy one of Major Hillpig-Smyth's patented walking sticks.
Lao Kao: June 19, 2005; Welcome to Lamphang province - homebrew capital of Thailand.
Back to Bangkok: June 13, 2005; Returning once again to Bangkok, via Tokyo.
24-hr party people: May 15, 2005; The first warm (Saturday) night in 2005, and the bands are on the march.
Good Friday: May 1, 2005; Eastern Orthodox Good Friday service, at the Cathedral of Holy Virgin Protection, New York.
Statements: April 17, 2005; In Broad Channel, everyone's home makes a statement of some kind.
Occupied Zone: September 3, 2004; In which I get to show my photographs to the Secret Service.
RNC NYC: August 29, 2004; Some pictures and comments from Sunday's protest against the Republican National Convention in New York.
Disoriented: July 28, 2004; There's no place like home - wherever that might be.
Da Lat: July 15, 2004; Da Lat in the Central Highlands of Vietnam has all the weather it can use, and more.
Hue and Hoi An: July 12, 2004; Jottings from Central Vietnam.
Ha Long Bay: July 9, 2004; When jellyfish attack: horror in Ha Long Bay
Landcruiser: July 7, 2004; How to tell where you are in South-East Asia by looking at the vehicles.
Going by the Book: July 6, 2004; Seen from Hanoi, the planet doesn't look quite so Lonely after all.
Farangs: June 29, 2004; You meet such fascinating people when you travel.
Dance of the Apsaras: June 13, 2004; Even heavy rain at Angkor can't stop the dance of the apsaras.
Say 'No' to drugs: June 10, 2004; Under the influence of powerful drugs in Cambodia - caffeine, dramamine, fatigue and Reaganism.
Dr Strangedops: June 5, 2004; Three adults, one motorcycle, forty-eight klicks - no problem!
Bangkok to Kampot: June 3, 2004; From Bangkok to Kampot, Cambodia, by bus, boat, motorcycle and car.
Visa Run: June 2, 2004; It's time to leave Thailand - and come back in with a new visa.
Shrines: May 30, 2004; On Bangkok's roadside shrines, Hindu outposts in a Buddhist country
Rain: May 23, 2004; At this time of year in Bangkok, it seems to rain once a day. Hard.
Hi-So: May 13, 2004; In which we go to a fashionable party and have a surprising encounter on the way home.
Care the lovely plants: April 29, 2004; First impressions of Hong Kong at the misty end of April.

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