The Wing-Friends and Other Books

In Blogger's slideshows images are greatly reduced, so lose much of their impact. And captions added to them in Picasa Albums vanish, so the images shown above are: the Milky Way, the Orion Nebula, Earth, Earth with New Zealand circled, New Zealand, Auckland & the Hauraki Gulf, Waiheke Island, some native NZ forest, a Fantail and chicks, various doves, etc.

(If you want to see the first ten images in their original size, they are in a posting made on the 24th of November 2011.)

My book The Wing-Friends is an imaginative tale of a small brave boy, a magical adventure, a magnificent Pegasus and the wonderful Kingdom of the Pegasi. It has been given very good reviews, and virtually every reader on Goodreads has so far awarded it five stars. It is available here. Some of my other writings are available as e-books, such as The Lower Deck, which is an over-the-top take on Waiheke happenings--sort of.

Monday, 17 June 2013

NET GLEANINGS 018

Unusual changes in the jet-stream caused record melting on Greenland:
'Research from the University of Sheffield has shown that unusual changes in atmospheric jet stream circulation caused the exceptional surface-melt of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) in summer 2012.'

Tianhe-2, the new Chinese supercomputer is twice as fast as its nearest rival:

Posted by Nobilangelo at 16:20