Protected: The unbelievable filmmaking feats of our American friends on the Kuril expedition.

This year’s anarchic SAS has been duly covered. “But what about tourism?” you might ask. To which I’ll reply: we found time for that too!… At long last I got to see up close one of the biggest statues in the world with my own eyes – Garuda Wisnu Kencana, which depicts the Hindu god […]

An absolute must-see for tourists near the Aswan Dam is the Philae temple complex. Its origins are truly ancient, but it’s been ruined and rebuilt many times over – so in the end it’s not so much genuinely Egyptian as something remade “Egyptian-style” later on, in the Greco-Roman eras. And then other cultures/religions came along […]

Our annual conference for cybersecurity experts – the Security Analyst Summit (this year – SAS-2026) – has thundered its way to a close. It was fun, it was lively, and this time it came with a ground-breaking design:

We began our cruise along the great Nile River in the city of Aswan. That’s a name familiar to anyone who grew up in the USSR in the seventies/eighties – and, I’m told, in the UK, where, apparently, its main feature (see below) was studied in middle-school geography classes (yet – no mention of Soviet […]

When I first visited stunning Luxor back in 2022 (on my first trip to Egypt), I heard that tourist boats ply the great Nile River on the Luxor–Aswan route, and that it comes highly recommended for exploring firsthand. Just four (far from boring) years later, and business has brought me back to the land of […]

Before our very eyes, technological progress has once again bolted ahead at full gallop. It’s all we can do to keep shutting them (or opening them wide) in astonishment! In literally just a few years, countless AI this-that-and-the-others have gone from being things like dim-witted but tireless talking parrots, to intelligent tools able to solve […]