CNN's vision of Saddam

I think this is very telling: the US addition of CNN has a story whose link reads "Hussein calls for unity -- against U.S." but the international edition of CNN has a lead story reach reads "Hussein: I ordered farms razed."

The US version is old news and the international version seems more important. Why are American readers given two different stories?

Destination: Adventure!

Loyal readers of this space will have seen the photos of my last adventure to Scotland. Actually, this was not only my first adventure in Scotland but my first adventure ever, discounting those baby things like crossing the road, going into a dark basement and watching clips of the Exorcist alone when I was 5.

To be an adventure, it must have peril and peril did this have. In fact, I probably came the closest to death that I have ever been. I may be blowing this whole thing out of proportion, but walking along a knife-edge ridge with 200-meter drops on both sides seems pretty perilous. One wrong step and… well, you get the picture.

An adventure must also have an element of the unknown. To be sure, I looked at some of these mountains and had no idea what I was in for. Again, I may be making mountains out of molehills, but when I looked up, I had no idea that this is what I’d look like when I got there.

Most of all, adventure should end in triumph and this one surely did.

Photos from Scotland

Well, I've returned from my mountaineering holiday in the highlands of Scotland. I've posted some of the photos here.

Most photos on the mountain were taken with my handy Nokia 6230 phone and emailed to my Flickr account. I can't believe I just wrote that.