Archive │ 2009

Blogging │ Which language should one use? (29 December 2009)

Execution of Mr Akmal Shaikh (29 December 2009)

How much bigger can Facebook be? (28 December 2009)

GBP — EUR parity (28 December 2009)

Attempting to bring down an aeroplane (26 December 2009)

DIY on Christmas Day? (25 December 2009)

Christmas and New Year in Japan (25 December 2009)

Using machine translation to create ‘original’ content (25 December 2009)

Quick thoughts on Twitter (24 December 2009)

The ever-expanding MacBook battery (23 December 2009)

China: People’s Daily uses Twitter (23 December 2009)

Economic effects of snow and cold (22 December 2009)

Delays caused by persons under the train (21 December 2009)

Blogging │ Over-stuffing blogs with widgets (20 December 2009)

I opened a Twitter account (20 December 2009)

COP15: deal or no deal (18 December 2009)

Traffic jams over 500km (17 December 2009)

COP15: what a mess (16 December 2009)

Japan │ A government of novices? (16 December 2009)

Is British Airways too big to fail? (14 December 2009)

Blogging │ Whither have all the readers gone? (9 December 2009)

Japanese right-wingers on the net (netto uyoku) (7 December 2009)

London travel tips: central London bus map (2 December 2009)

Typing in a pub (2 December 2009)

What is a minaret? (29 November 2009)

Debt standstill? (25 November 2009)

Is Borders going bust? (25 November 2009)

War in Afghanistan (24 November 2009)

Is climate change a trick? (23 November 2009)

Twitter is the word of the year (in Dutch) (22 November 2009)

The first EU president (19 November 2009)

Did T-Mobile sell my data? (17 November 2009)

History and data (1 November 2009)

The demise of GeoCities (27 October 2009)

Recession over by Christmas? (25 October 2009)

Everyone is biased! (25 October 2009)

UK still in recession (23 October 2009)

Twitter, a force for good? (21 October 2009)

Blogging │ Concentrating on one blog (19 October 2009)

Brussels Diary: Market (Gare du Midi / Zuidstation) (18 October 2009)

Can machines replace human translators? (15 October 2009)

Brussels Diary: Oktoberfest (15 October 2009)

Unread books (14 October 2009)

Economic crisis │ One year on (25 September 2009)

Christmas pudding (16 September 2009)

Blogging │ Randomness that is the Next Blog (15 September 2009)

Am I missing something? (14 September 2009)

Back to the good old days? (9 September 2009)

Global economic competitiveness (UK: 13th) (8 September 2009)

People still drink on the tube (3 September 2009)

Duplicitous diplomacy (3 September 2009)

Estación María Zambrano (Málaga) (29 August 2009)

Conservatives: still the nasty party? (17 August 2009)

Plastic cups and lesbians (16 August 2009)

NHS (14 August 2009)

Releasing the Lockerbie bomber (14 August 2009)

Ministers’ pay (13 August 2009)

Blogging │ Public and permanent (12 August 2009)

UK │ Surveillance society (10 August 2009)

Starbucks is coming to Belgium (10 August 2009)

Buying books at charity shops (10 August 2009)

War in the cyber space? (8 August 2009)

Living in fear of contracting swine flu (6 August 2009)

Internet │ Charging for news (6 August 2009)

Blogging │ Loading time (3 August 2009)

From consumption of expression to consumption of experience (30 July 2009)

No more sandwiches on short-haul BA flights (29 July 2009)

Gluey cheese burger (29 July 2009)

Referendums: Labour’s last chance? (26 July 2009)

Pigs will fly and we will die (25 July 2009)

Armageddon? (24 July 2009)

Belgian National Day (24 July 2009)

Aachen Cathedral (20 July 2009)

Belgian National Day — cake (17 July 2009)

Internet │ I hate inline text advertisements! (17 July 2009)

Google’s assault on Microsoft (8 July 2009)

UK recession │ Will the economy recover soon? (7 July 2009)

US and Russia (7 July 2009)

China and ethno-nationalism (6 July 2009)

Rogues (3 July 2009)

Unemployment │ 9.5% (2 July 2009)

Sharia Courts (1 July 2009)

Swine flu │ What next? (29 June 2009)

150 years for Mr Madoff (29 June 2009)

Genghis Khan as business guru? (24 June 2009)

What’s the point of this blog? (24 June 2009)

UK politics │ Mr Bercow is the new Speaker (22 June 2009)

UK politics │ Electing the new Speaker │ Plot thickens (21 June 2009)

Iran │ Tense days (21 June 2009)

Blogging │ Don’t expect to make (much) money (18 June 2009)

UK politics │ MPs’ expenses (18 June 2009)

Iranian election │ Renewed hope for peace? (12 June 2009)

UK recession │ Is it over? (10 June 2009)

UK politics │ Labour government: diarchy – monarchy – oligarchy (10 June 2009)

Internet │ I’m not a twit (9 June 2009)

UK politics │ Mr Brown survives (8 June 2009)

Cricket │ Sensational humiliation (6 June 2009)

UK politics │ Mr Brown survives for the moment (6 June 2009)

UK politics │ Local elections — complicated picture? (5 June 2009)

UK politics │ Mr Brown’s fate (5 June 2009)

Generation Obama (4 June 2009)

Academic journals │ Uncertain future? (3 June 2009)

UK politics │ Can Mr Brown survive? (3 June 2009)

UK recession │ Green shoots of recovery? (3 June 2009)

UK politics │ General election in autumn? (30 May 2009)

UK │ Politicians distrusted and despised (29 May 2009)

UK politics │ Where is Mr Brown? (27 May 2009)

UK politics │ Speaker’s statement (18 May 2009)

UK politics │ Speaker’s position (17 May 2009)

UK politics │ MPs’ expenses (15 May 2009)

Supermarket │ Danish salami from Germany? (12 May 2009)

Luxembourg │ Strange shop sign (5 May 2009)

Europe │ Dangerous times ahead? (5 May 2009)

Swine flu │ Media hype? (30 April 2009)

Swine flu │ When you thought it couldn’t get worse ... (27 April 2009)

Darling’s budget │ Plucking numbers out of thin air? (23 April 2009)

UK politics │ Labour’s smear campaign? (11 April 2009)

UK politics │ Next general election — Labour’s 1993 moment? (7 April 2009)

UK politics │ MPs’ expenses (5 April 2009)

London │ St Luke’s Church, Chelsea (4 April 2009)

A nation of rentiers (3 April 2009)

The net fragments? (3 April 2009)

Europe in deflation (1 April 2009)

UK │ Stagflation? (24 March 2009)

UK │ Freezing public sector pay amid deflation (24 March 2009)

The ever-worsening reputation of the Swiss (19 March 2009)

UK politics │ Mr Cameron says sorry (13 March 2009)

Quantitative easing (11 March 2009)

Economic crisis │ European anger at Britain (2 March 2009)

A Tale of Two Cities │ London Underground and Paris Metro (28 February 2009)

Global warming, nuclear power and genetically modified crops (17 February 2009)

Labour’s change of narrative? (13 February 2009)

Cricket │ West Indies are back! (7 February 2009)

Internet │ Opera “reload every ...” function (6 February 2009)

Apostrophe (30 January 2009)

Obama presidency │ Yes we will (20 January 2009)

Obama presidency │ New era (20 January 2009)

Airport expansion (15 January 2009)

LabourList (12 January 2009)

2009: End of consumer society? (3 January 2009)

Middle East │ Israel’s impossible condition for victory? (2 January 2009)

2009: End of capitalism? (1 January 2009)