Wrong about Japan...
If you got a minute. Have a look at this article in the Guardian taken from the new book "Wrong about Japan". Well written, well done. A good couple of minutes for escaping. Have fun!
Wrong about Japan
Good news, bad news, no news, Falconews...
If you got a minute. Have a look at this article in the Guardian taken from the new book "Wrong about Japan". Well written, well done. A good couple of minutes for escaping. Have fun!
This is an empty page. It is really really empty. Very empty indeed. It is not that empty anymore, but now it is filled with content that is really empty. So in a way it is still empty. I should get back to work…
I did enjoy the following reader comment to last weeks article of Germanophobia in the Economist, which followed two earlier ones. Here the whole scoop.
... well actually I just hopped over to my hometown of Hamburg for two nights last weekend, but it was great (although bitterly cold, I should add)!
After already moonlighting my views on Bush's new appointments for State and Attorney General, having posted comments on Pat's Blog articles "Farewell Mr. Powell" and " Mr. Ashcroft, you should be a member of another government", now that POTUS's new playfriends have been appointed, I shall add my two-pence. BTW. Patrick, please do fix your blog - your archives don't seem to be working properly.
Just as I published my last post a few seconds ago. Gmail has introduced POP access! Hurray for Gmail and those mysterious forces in the universe...
As a follow-up on my earlier rant on my frustration with UK mobile businesses and how they keep ripping me off - Bastards! - I can now happily report that I am the proud owner of a 3G mobile phone on a contract. The only snag is that this took me over a year of pain, high costs and wasted time and effort to acheive. Moreover, this is not even the best deal that is out there, but for finally being able to get anything at all, I decided not to waste any more time and just take it.
... does it work?
Hey everyone!
Everyone knows that there is a lot of shit on the internet, but apparently there are also a lot of people want to know about shit over the internet. Or to be more exact, how to shit. The now famous and often excellent wikipedia free online encylopedia project has finally publised an article that we have all been waiting for. An in-depth study of the Japanese toilet! From its humble beginings during the Yoyoi cultures period of Japanese pre-history to the funky modern apparatuses that freak out first-timers to Japan, you can find out you ever wanted to knwo about the Japanese way of crapping. Enjoy: Japanese toilets!
This day I have finally decided, that I will not continue in "hell". I will not bore you with a rant about the many serious misgivings I have for taking this decision, but suffice to say that my idea of doing business differs vastly from certain government officials.
Another item on the "Rip-Off Britain" list: Mobiles
Today was a good day. I haven't been out for so long that I can't even remember when I have last been anywhere new. But today, although in the usual unplanned manner of mine, I had a grand time. Yesterday on Friday, I was informed that instead of sitting at home doing some reading or playing, I would be taking part in my friends' birthday party in Soho. Shortly afterwards, I was told that I was furthermore expected to come to a great Guy Fawkes Day fireworks display at Alexandra Palace. As the birthday party was supposed to move there anyhow, we went directly (after the usual Falco-delay) to Alexandra Palace and it was great!!! I had never been there before and this was my first Guy Fawkes Day actually out and about in London. The birthday party aparently got so drunk in Soho, that they did not make it there and when I got back into the city I was not able to get in touch with them. Or to be more exact, when calling the birthday-girl (at 9pm...) she was so inebriated that she could barely utter the words "car...home...drunk" before passing out on the phone. So in the end we spent some more time at the Virgin store and looking at the crowds, before slowly returning home.
"It was a vote about freedom, about morality, about US business interests overseas, but - above all - about the security of every family in the land. No, not Tuesday's US Presidential election. As every Investors Chronicle reader knows, this should make no difference to their livelihoods (see IC 15 Oct 2004, page 50). I refer, instead, to Monday's vote on the UK Gambling Bill." - This is the welcome change in reporting that I have been looking for in a while and came unexpectedly from one of the magazines that I fortunately have to keep track of at work. The article continues to blast the conservative Daily Mail for its populist and misleading campaign against punting. This introductory piece is delightfully entitled "Die-regulation".