As regular readers will know, I travel to Tallinn (Estonia), several times a year for a week or two.
This year it looks like I’ll be going for the whole summer. I fly out in June, with no return flight booked. The kids are going into Nursery, and I’ll be doing some private English tutoring. If […]
Those Parisians have extinguished the Olympic flame.
Twice.
Apparently is was so that the torch could escape protesters and be hidden on a bus. Things are getting nasty, as we saw in London, where the pocket-sized Konnie Huq was mugged by pro-Tibet protesters.
No doubt these campaigners will watch themselves on the news tonight. On their Chinese-made […]
From the IHT: -
Global shares fell Wednesday as burgeoning U.S. mortgage loan problems and soft economic data provoked fears that the world’s largest economy may enter a recession and drag down smaller economies with it.
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Citigroup, the biggest U.S. bank, on Tuesday reported a fourth-quarter net loss of $9.83 billion. The biggest loss on record for […]
I’d write up the story myself, but Mr Eugenides does it so well that I’m simply going to link.
Recommended.
Kumu Museum (gallery) photoset is up.
I have just spent the day on a photowalk with my Nikon D80 DSLR. I have over 150 shots to upload of Tallinn. I’ll post the link (update: link) later after I’ve uploaded to flickr and done the required editing and rotating (uploading straight from SD rather than clogging my iPhoto software - my ageing […]
Part one can be found here.
Abroad
Huge corporatocracies control our governments and shadowy agents work against the interest of global peace, international law, and environmental sustainability. In fact, never has it been more apparent that democracy is just an illusion and that all political parties operate within the same narrow superstructure. In the last decade - […]
It’s wet and cold.
Maybe we’ll get snow on Tuesday, for New Years. Maybe.
Tomorrow is of course the big celebrations, New Years Eve. We’ve been invited to friends who have a huge house they built themselves - sauna etc. I’m looking at a late night. I don’t operate well if I haven’t had a decent night’s […]
Paul MacInnes had a good piece in yesterday’s Guardian, making the case for Europe. Former Lib Dem head-honcho and sometime TV megastar, Charles Kennedy, has been appointed President of European Movement UK, which must be a bit like being President of the United States, only completely different.
But seriously… the case for Europe does need making. […]
According to The Guardian, Labour is planning to broaden the scope of its 10 eco-camps eco-towns by introducing fitness regimes for the occupants.
The health secretary, Alan Johnson, is convinced that two great challenges facing Britain - climate change and obesity - are linked.
He believes it makes sense that 10 eco towns already being planned […]
Dave Winer comments on the news that Nokia is about to supersede the N800 internet tablet with its replacement, the - inspirationally named - N810 (Engaget had the original scoop back in July). The key improvements are a slide-down keyboard and a higher resolution screen.
If anyone’s going to trump the iPhone, it’s Nokia. The […]
Passionate open-sourcers often argue that we should have our wi-fi networks unprotected (allowing strangers to share our web-love), but now it seems corporate behemoths have caught on…
ISPs aren’t known for encouraging users to share bandwidth, but that’s exactly what BT wants UK customers to do. The Spanish WiFi specialist FON offers routers that enable people […]
This has to be seen to be believed.
A petition to the 10 Downing Street Site: -
“We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to request that Leicestershire Social Services fulfil their statutory obligation to investigate the circumstances which led to 3 year old Madeleine McCann and her younger siblings being left unattended in an unlocked, ground floor hotel room.
We ask that the Prime […]
