Last night I went for drinks and a debate at the German Ambassador’s residence, not everyone’s idea of a good time as it was quite a political evening and some of the attendees could have bored the hind-legs off a donkey but illuminating in some respects nevertheless. The debate, or rather more the questions and [...]
He might have been a Catalan pirate, or a Jew fleeing the Inquisition. He was a religious zealot hoping to bring on the apocalypse. His miscalculation about the size of the earth was an error even the ancient Greeks had not committed. He mistook his location for the East Indies, and his [...]
In case you missed it there is a video doing the rounds, it was on YouTube but has been pulled for legal reasons, which was used as a video resume by a Yale student in an application to UBS. For those who don’t work in finance its an astonishing window into a world of monster [...]
Today’s post is more of a public information broadcast than an oppinion piece.
I have been hassling BT recently because although I’m on a premium ADSL package and applied for an upgrade from 2Mb to 8Mb some months ago I’m still sitting in the slow lane of the information super-highway. However after scouring the web I [...]
