Wednesday, March 31, 2004

Jobs in Hip-Hop

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Apart from the obvious reaction to this little joyride (which of course is: "hey, that was our tax money you hosed up the wall - but ...
Tuesday, March 30, 2004

So, where's the next kilowatt gonna come from?

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Project Aqua - a large scale hydro generation proposal - has had - lovely irony this - it's plug pulled. Now, against a backdrop of inc...
Monday, March 29, 2004

Guns baaad. Explosive belts Gooood.

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NZ Pundit reports on the, shall we say over-egged, response to kid-size guns. Note the rapidity and ferocity of the condemnation. The key...
Saturday, March 27, 2004

Lord Carey, retired, religious, and controversial

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Lord Carey of Clifton has put in a religious-dialogue context, many of the issues surrounding our fragile co-existence with militant Islam....
Wednesday, March 24, 2004

Nostalgia for Lost Jobs

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As usual, Virginia Postrel has a great link: Would you really rather be a miner? The argument, heard often in tandem with a vaguely anti-c...
Monday, March 22, 2004

Al Quaeda to Europe: "Grease up. Bend over."

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Hard to know where the Spanish capitulation will take Europe. Nowhere nice, that's for sure. Spanish, and by osmosis, European foreign...
Saturday, March 20, 2004

The first concrete step towards Eurabia

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Robert Spencer, writing in WorldNetDaily , notes without glee that "al-Qaida has adjusted Spain's foreign policy with a bombing...
Friday, March 19, 2004

Comments about Spain

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Mark Steyn usually has thoroughly amusing yet pointed observations. This one is no exception. Lee Harris is another one of those wise g...
Wednesday, March 17, 2004

Wisdom

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Tricky concept. I seem to need large doses of this in times of uncertainty, and there are a few people I keep returning to for their latest...
Tuesday, March 16, 2004

Andalusia is a front line

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Tacitus has a thoughtful piece on Spain which echoes Mark Steyn's piece in the Australian yesterday. Essentially, because Spain was ...
Monday, March 15, 2004

Today we are all Spaniards

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Mark Steyn has a typically comprehensive article about the Spanish atrocity. Just read the whole thing (RTWT).

Carl Zimmer is blogging!

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CZ is a journalist who has that enviable knack of making science interesting and topical, without mushing it down to a lowest-common-multipl...

A thoughtful look at 21st century empire

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There's such a lot of heat and so little light in the now rather enervated debates on world politics in the blogosphere. This piece is ...
Friday, March 12, 2004

Back again at last, having figured links...

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The blogging silence has been for two reasons: 1 - new job, settling in, sales to chase and implementations to do. Demanding - a lot of ...
Monday, January 26, 2004

Jan 17 - homewards bound

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We farewell Anne and Doug - thanks guys for a marvellous time. The mood evaporates somewhat as we wend our way slowly through AA's queu...

Jan 15/16 - Florida Keys

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After a leisurely start (breakfast, more Folgers coffee) we swing (well, crawl at times, remember those Florida drivers) down the Miami free...
Tuesday, January 20, 2004

Jan 14 - on the Inland Waterway and Cuban coffee

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An early start to make a boat trip down the inland canals system into the downtown Miami area. The trip is very good: a bit of commentary ...

Jan 13 - Miami

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Early start, as we check out, very last tube trip out to Heathrow, where AF has actually delivered the luggage! We grab it and head for our...

Jan 12 - Air France - The horror, the horror

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We visit the Zweigart factory for a look-through, have lunch with the directors, then off to Stuttgart airport (an exhilarating motorway tri...

Black Forest - Jan 11

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Our marvellous host has a drive through the BF planned. We had always thought of it as an enclave or pocket, but it is absolutely huge: ar...