A photograph of mine has been printed in today’s copy of The Ticket, the entertainment section of The Irish Times!

Thanks to the help of my good friend, Andy, I have a nice new website for you to marvel at, with an updated portfolio. Check it out at www.philokanephotography.com Stay tuned for more updates over the next few weeks.

That is, according to a study by three doctors in KS Hegde Medical Academy in Mangalore, India. The study asks: “Are lung cancers triggered by stopping smoking?” So basically they took 312 lung cancer patients they treated during a four-year period of which 182 recently quit. They had all been smoking for more than 25 [...]

So rumour has it the people of the UK and Ireland like to talk about the weather a lot. I would agree with this. When its sunny, its beautiful. Most of the time its not. I don’t want to whine on about it too much, ‘cos I’m going to the sun soon anyway. The Guardian [...]

Andrew Baron has responded to the “misleading” Market Watch article saying: “Rocketboom will always remain free and easily available to obtain. That’s our #1 foundational principle of being and I don’t ever foresee needing to change that.”” Its not true at all. Rocketboom will remain freely available. The point I was making is that we [...]

The crazy weather and threat of snow must have too many people to the BBC’s Weather site lately. The default is London, though I want to change it to Belfast, but when I try to do so I get a nasty 502 error. Unfortunately a server error occured whilst trying to retrieve this page: http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/weather/search/new_search.pl? [...]

Today the images of Richard Hammond‘s high speed crash have been released by the BBC. He was making an attempt at the British land speed (currently 300.3mph) record in the Thule Vampire, a 30-foot Rolls-Royce jet-powered dragster made in Sweden capable of reaching 272 mph in six seconds en route to a theoretical top speed [...]

The Jane Bradfords have hit the number one spot on the Qatar charts! The question is – how on earth did this happen? The track ‘Hide from the Cold’ has been played on BBC Radio 1 by DJs Colin Murray and Huw Stephens and was found by local radio DJ at QBS in Qatar. The [...]