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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.
Vigil: December 17, 2008; Photographs from the 2008 Vigil to End Violence against Sex Workers held in Washington Square Park, New York.
Inflation - Thanksgiving 2008: November 26, 2008; Eavesdropping at the balloon inflation the night before Thanksgiving confirms what most children know: parents don't listen.
Mumbai terrorist attacks: November 26, 2008; The news from Mumbai is ugly, but it may get worse still if the attacks trigger inter-ethnic violence.
Democracy 2K8: November 4, 2008; Democracy is coming to the USA; in bite-sized pieces, once every four years.
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.
2008 Vendy Awards: October 18, 2008; Pictures from the 2008 Vendy Awards, a street food event organized by the Streetvendor Project of the Urban Justice Center.
Lost in translation: October 17, 2008; It turns out that my neighbors don't do irony.
Cross Bones: October 15, 2008; The Cross Bones graveyard in London was the burial ground for prostitutes working in the licensed brothels of Southwark.
Incident on the LES: October 4, 2008; A shooting on the Lower East Side brings the police out in force.
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.
Fourth of July: July 4, 2008; What I did on my Fourth of July holiday.
Olafur: June 28, 2008; Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson has installed four giant waterfalls in New York
Mermaid Parade 2008: June 21, 2008; Photographs from Coney Island's annual Mermaid Parade.
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
Carol Jenkins (1945-2008): January 22, 2008; American anthropologist Carol Jenkins has died at her home, aged sixty-three.
Mumbai Rail: January 10, 2008; The suburban railway system in Mumbai may be the most complex and heavily loaded in the world.
Tea with the sadhu: January 2, 2008; A tea break with the residents of a Hanuman shrine in Khajuraho.
"Alive in Baghdad" reporter killed: December 15, 2007; Ali Shafeya, a journalist working with my friend Brian, has been killed in his home by the Iraqi National Guard.
Fire on the Bowery: November 29, 2007; Pictures from a fire at a lighting store on the Bowery.
Picture of an underachiever: November 14, 2007; It's November again, and that means it's novel-writing time.
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.
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.
Bag: September 30, 2007; The Curse of Heathrow strikes again.
Valve: September 29, 2007; Engine valves: can't live with them, can't cross the Atlantic without them.
Photo Exhibition: September 20, 2007; Some photographs taken during a recent photography course.
Relaunched: September 10, 2007; Another day, another website makeover.
Fireworks: July 4, 2007; Photographs of the 4th of July firework display seen from the Lower East Side.
Sarasota: June 26, 2007; A handful of pictures from a trip to Sarasota, FL.
MoDo Madness: April 30, 2007; The mourning doves have landed, and the cat is going insane.
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.
Dissenting opinion: March 1, 2007; Vandals have taken to defacing anti-authoritarian wall art in my neighborhood.
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.
Power Washer: January 6, 2007; Photographs of the power-washing of 188 Suffolk Street, Manhattan
Alive in Mexico: December 5, 2006; Another friend gets arrested, this time by Mexican police in Oaxaca.
Rhymes with 'Flymo': November 29, 2006; NaNoWriMo has my soul again
Erin: October 30, 2006; Erin Siegal, Reuters and Indymedia photographer, has been arrested by the NYPD while covering a demonstration.
Best of breed: October 29, 2006; Pictures from the Halloween Dog Parade in Tompkins Square Park, Manhattan
Roller Derby: October 14, 2006; The Bronx Gridlock and the Queens of Pain meet in Manhattan, and I get to take pictures from the ringside.
Blip: September 20, 2006; Today I start my new job at Blip.tv.
Book: September 6, 2006; My friend Melissa's two-volume encyclopedia has just been published.
Babel: July 21, 2006; Note to self: Portuguese is not just a funny kind of Spanish.
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.
Feast of St Joey: May 19, 2006; The Hungry March Band leads a procession in honor of Joey Ramone.
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.
Enter the sorcerer: March 25, 2006; If rumor is to be believed, the Thai prime minister has resorted to using magic to stay in power.
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 (III): January 21, 2006; Sight-seeing a la Khmer.
Furthur (II): January 20, 2006; Sissophon to Battambang: the odyssey continues.
Furthur: January 19, 2006; A road trip from Phnom Penh to Sisophon.
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.
Sony on the street: December 5, 2005; More questionable publicity for Sony.
Why I love my Zire 71: November 12, 2005; The Palm Zire 71's 'crappy camera' yields satisfyingly impressionistic pictures.
Election Fever: November 5, 2005; Mayoral candidate Fernando Ferrer visits the Lower East Side.
Is it November already?: November 1, 2005; Thirty days; fifty thousand words. You have to be joking, right?
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.
The Great Saunter: May 10, 2005; Walking the outer rim of Manhattan on the Shorewalkers' Great Saunter.
Good Friday: May 1, 2005; Eastern Orthodox Good Friday service, at the Cathedral of Holy Virgin Protection, New York.
Leaving the scene: April 25, 2005; A taxi driver involved in a hit-and-run injured eleven people outside my office today.
Nuweiba: October 8, 2004; I was always afraid that someone would notice just how easily a terrorist attack could be carried out on the Sinai coast around Nuweiba. And someone did.
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.
My Son: July 13, 2004; Photographs of the Cham ruins at My Son, central Vietnam.
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
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
Disorientated: May 29, 2004; I now have the eerie impression that this site is just one point in a vast continuum of possible blogs: I received a nice note from Philip Sen, pointing out his blog, Disorientated, which is clearly my typographic and thematic...
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.

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