Archives: May, 2008

The Spas of Baden-Baden

Wolfie — May 26, 2008, 3:53 pm

I had been meaning to visit Baden-Baden for a long time but when my wife recently pointed out that Ryanair had started direct flights from Stanstead to Karlsruhe Baden-Baden I could see an ideal opportunity had arisen.
Baden-Baden is a small historic spa town on the banks of the river Oos, located on the western foothills [...]

Stagflation Conflagration

Wolfie — May 21, 2008, 4:49 pm

Its not every day that Central Bankers or renowned market players speak the truth but we’ve had a sudden spate of it lately, probably wanting to distance themselves from the politicians and the press just in case the proletariat revolt and start burning people for turning them into serfs.
Jean-Claude Trichet said we were seeing “an [...]

A Glorious Waste of Time

Wolfie — May 15, 2008, 3:06 pm

I’ve spent most of the last week going through some sort of nail-biting home IT hell centred around a gradually failing system disk in my PC. Its only about a year and a half old but suddenly it started failing to boot on a regular basis, only saveable by chkdsk. Clearly on its last legs [...]