2010/03/30 23:39
Last night, I noticed a small wet spot on the duvet, but we decided to sleep normally.However, at 7am, Phyllis woke me up because she had noticed the sound of water while breastfeeding, and true enough, my feet were wet.At first, we thought it was the radiator in my office that had burst, but checking the on-off timer on the...
2010/03/26 22:08
The Murdoch press (a.k.a. The Times) have now announced that they will start charging for internet access from June.The price is going to be £1 a day, or £2 a week.I've criticised this before.They clearly think that most people can afford to pay £2 a week, which is, of course, true.However, reading just one newspaper is the old way of...
2010/03/31 23:24
Charlemagne has an essential blog posting today about EU, the British media and Open Europe.
He’s asking why the British media are almost uniformly sceptical or even hostile when it comes to the EU, and traces it back to the lobby group Open Europe and some characteristics of the British press:
Open Europe feeds on three big facts about the average London based journalist. They are very, very lazy, so love being spoon-fed stories. They are pack animals: once the EU has become a target for vitriolic abuse in one paper, all the others follow, because it winds readers up into a nice frenzy and there is no danger of anyone from the EU suing them. The EU also alarms journalists in London at some level, because they do not understand it and it makes their brains hurt to try, so they yearn for someone to explain to them in simple terms why it is (as they suspect) a plot by foreigners to run Britain.
Do read the whole thing, it’s essential to understand Britain and the EU!
I just wish somebody in favour of the EU would take over a few British newspapers and create a pro-EU lobby group to counterbalance Open Europe.
2010/03/29 22:22
The last couple of times we've gone into Glasgow on a Saturday, we've noticed how Sauchiehall Street and Buchanan Street have been half empty. We were wondering whether it had anything to do with the recession.However, the Silverburn shopping centre was so crowded that the cars were almost blocking the motorway exit.So it's the combination of more and more expensive parking charges in central Glasgow and more and bigger shopping centres surrounding the city that is finally taking its toll.It...
2010/03/27 22:14
Most people will by now have heard of FarmVille, which is costing society billions in lost productivity because so many people are growing soybeans and raising sheep as part of their Facebook routine.However, most people think of it as a game for grown-ups.Just for fun I made profiles for Léon and Anna, and somewhat to my surprise, they love it.Of...
2010/03/24 22:48
Ever since the Democrats managed to enact the big American health reform, I've been wondering why the Republicans have been so vociferous in their opposition.It's not like it's a very radical reform – it doesn't even get close to creating...
2010/03/23 22:38
Som jeg nævnte i mit sidste blogindlæg, hygger jeg mig lidt med genealogi for tiden.Ud over de frit tilgængelige kirkebøger har jeg fået nogle stamtræer af svingende kvalitet af mine forældre og min svigerfar, men jeg opdagede forleden, at internettet...
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