Hello and welcome to the new and improved Mikepaws website! … Here you will find my blog and thoughts, in a space where they are free from the social media algorithms and I can write as many sentences or paragraphs as I require. You will also find my old posts from my Wordpress site when this URL was hosting that as well. A new feature of this improved website is a photo gallery where I can…
This is the beginning of 2018, often at these times we reflect and also post our hopes for the upcoming year ahead. A few years ago I made a resolution to start writing more and made this blogging site to be place I could publish those written pieces for myself and anyone else I wanted to show it to. There has been a distinct lack of activity on here for over a year now. I blame this partly on…
I made a New Year's Resolution a few years ago that I would maintain a blog and try to write in it regularly for my own sanity. 2016 was an interesting year in that was plenty that I could have written about, but at times it seemed to smack you so hard that I felt I didn't have time to sit and let it process or find the reliable sources that I wanted to construct an argument or make a solid case…
On Saturday 22nd August 2015, an aircraft crashed at Shoreham Airshow. This is my eyewitness account from the day. It was a hot, bright sunny day in summer. The wind was calm and the skies were a lovely deep blue with very few clouds, perfect flying conditions. Such good weather was the reason myself and my housemate had decided only 48 hours earlier to attend the Shoreham Airshow. There were…
Tomorrow the Government will release its Green Paper on the future of the BBC, here I want to write why we should keep it strong and independent. The British Broadcasting Corporation was founded on the principals to “inform, educate and entertain”, in October 1922. Since its early days it has pushed forward the mediums of radio, television and developed new technology, blazing a trail…
I was a big fan of the Jurassic Park films growing up, so how does the new one compare? … Jurassic World – Colin Trevorrow … Science Fiction/Adventure … Released: 11th June, 2015 … … Christmas 1996, that was my first time watching Jurassic Park, I don’t think I watched all of it, I was too frightened to sit through the whole film, especially when the Velociraptors turn up. However, it left…
Does the Furry Fandom take photography for granted? Here’s some thoughts and personal photo tips! I was sat at the LondonFurs monthly meet-up the other week, on a table with GreenReaper who is associated with a variety of furry websites, in particular, two art sites, InkBunny and Weasyl. We were discussing in particular Weasyl as I had recently setup an account there as a backup incase…
President John F. Kennedy famously said about choosing to go into space that it was a goal worth accomplishing, “not because they are easy, but because they are hard.” In the last six months we have been reminded that the road to space remains fraught with danger and that its still not anything routine. The loss of the Virgin Galactic test flight, SpaceShip Two, reminds us all that disaster and…
Today in the United States is the Midterms, all 435 seats in the United States House of Representatives and 33 of the 100 seats in the United States Senate will be contested; along with 38 state and territorial governorships, 46 state legislatures (except Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jersey and Virginia). The naming of the elections as “midterm” makes it seem like is have less weight…
