Archive │ 2010

Japan — figure skating (26 December 2010)

BT keeps calling (25 November 2010)

North Korea attacks (24 November 2010)

“They have never had it so good” (21 November 2010)

Mysteries of ATMs (15 November 2010)

World economy: uncertain future (12 November 2010)

UK — Tuition fees protest turns ugly (10 November 2010)

La nouvelle entente cordiale? (5 November 2010)

Changes to this site (7 October 2010)

Google to provide search results and advertisements for Yahoo! Japan (27 July 2010)

Venezuela and Colombia: war drums beating? (26 July 2010)

North Korea — just rhetoric? (24 July 2010)

Labour Party leadership contest (23 July 2010)

Kosovo independence: not illegal, therefore legal? (22 July 2010)

I wonder what’s in the box (21 July 2010)

I write like ... (20 July 2010)

Cocoa hoarder (20 July 2010)

The Tome Raider (20 July 2010)

Estonia will join the euro (18 July 2010)

Lord Mandelson’s memoirs (14 July 2010)

Sliced white bread (13 July 2010)

Japan — Upper House election (12 July 2010)

Twitter — How did I manage to accumulate followers? (6 July 2010)

Vuvuzela (5 July 2010)

Sentences long and short (3 July 2010)

What’s happening in Kyrgyzstan? (2) (1 July 2010)

Political football (1 July 2010)

Civilian control (23 June 2010)

UK coalition government — so far so good? (23 June 2010)

Austrian Airlines sends e-mails (22 June 2010)

Belgium: a government some time in September, perhaps? (16 June 2010)

Belgium elects (10 June 2010)

Blogging on the go (9 June 2010)

Tatsachenentsubstantialisierung (8 June 2010)

Swine flu and conspiracy (4 June 2010)

Japan — new PM (4 June 2010)

Japan — PM resigns (2 June 2010)

Israel’s blunder (31 May 2010)

Gaza aid ships (31 May 2010)

100% accurate? (28 May 2010)

Passed by one vote (27 May 2010)

Justice for Cambodia, food for Chad (26 May 2010)

Who are the markets? (25 May 2010)

1970s: a foreign land (21 May 2010)

BA strike goes ahead (20 May 2010)

Cuts by local authorities (17 May 2010)

Eurostar services disrupted, again (15 May 2010)

The great Liberal Democrat betrayal and the young generation (15 May 2010)

Cutting deficit, Spanish style (12 May 2010)

Estonia to join the euro (12 May 2010)

How long will the new UK government last? (11 May 2010)

Blue-yellow-red │ Which colour will the next government be? (11 May 2010)

Euro saved, for the moment (11 May 2010)

Understanding the other (building a coalition) (9 May 2010)

Euro’s future (9 May 2010)

Fiscal policies: illusion of manoeuvrability (7 May 2010)

UK General Election 2010 │ What constitutes a majority in the House of Commons? (7 May 2010)

UK General Election results night (6 May 2010)

Greek ‘contagion’ (6 May 2010)

UK General Election 2010 │ Majority (5 May 2010)

UK General Election 2010 │ The worst prime minister ever? (4 May 2010)

UK General Election 2010 │ Poisoned chalice (2 May 2010)

UK General Election 2010 │ 2010 and 1997 (30 April 2010)

Political uncertainty and market confidence (30 April 2010)

Belgium │ Alarm bell sounded (29 April 2010)

Incredible Greece (28 April 2010)

Chernobyl (27 April 2010)

Belgian government resigns (26 April 2010)

Literary judges (26 April 2010)

UK General Election 2010 │ Labour’s turmoil (25 April 2010)

Facebook: internet’s evil empire (23 April 2010)

Prof. Figes — Why? (23 April 2010)

UK in deflation (21 April 2010)

UK General Election 2010 │ Tories’ narrative (20 April 2010)

UK General Election 2010 │ Mr Clegg’s grand strategy? (16 April 2010)

Blogging │ Time to declutter (12 April 2010)

Food crisis in Guatemala (9 April 2010)

UK General Election 2010 │ NI contributions (8 April 2010)

Caste and pollution (8 April 2010)

State of emergency in Kyrgyzstan and Thailand (8 April 2010)

Aliens in our midst (8 April 2010)

Turkey at crossroads (7 April 2010)

What’s happening in Kyrgyzstan? (7 April 2010)

War, truth and Wikileaks (6 April 2010)

Mekong: a future flash point? (4 April 2010)

Unintended advertisements (4 April 2010)

It’s too late: we’re all doomed (31 March 2010)

Hainan, the new Dubai (31 March 2010)

Belgium │ Old and unemployed (30 March 2010)

Attacks on Moscow metro (30 March 2010)

How to balance the books (30 March 2010)

Belgians and social networking sites (24 March 2010)

Twitter, credibility, and truth (20 March 2010)

Forums and levels (18 March 2010)

What surprises Japanese travellers? (17 March 2010)

Useless bank! A rant (15 March 2010)

Translation or study (14 March 2010)

A fancy cup of coffee (13 March 2010)

Bankers, lawyers and accountants (12 March 2010)

Machine translation and learning languages (11 March 2010)

Venables back in prison (8 March 2010)

Blogging │ Auto pagination (7 March 2010)

Fulfilling your childhood dream (5 March 2010)

Using DISQUS (5 March 2010)

Mr Lebedev buys the Independent (4 March 2010)

Is hung parliament such a bad thing? (3 March 2010)

Keeping track of blogs (2 March 2010)

Data retention and privacy of telecommunications (2 March 2010)

Pound falls (again) (1 March 2010)

How large is Luxembourg? (27 February 2010)

Blogging │ Does font matter? (24 February 2010)

Blogging │ How quickly do search engines list posts? (22 February 2010)

Attacking the tax collectors (18 February 2010)

Identities stolen by a spying agency? (18 February 2010)

Eurostar’s strange survey (16 February 2010)

Did Google botch Buzz launch? (16 February 2010)

Winter Olympics │ London’s Schadenfreude (16 February 2010)

Eurostar’s problems (16 February 2010)

Greece │ An Ancien Régime? (14 February 2010)

Belgium │ Prison: a multi-cultural environment? (14 February 2010)

St Valentine’s Day in Japan (13 February 2010)

Winter Olympics │ My favourite events (12 February 2010)

Oil crunch (12 February 2010)

A deal to save Greece and the euro (11 February 2010)

Google Buzz: initial reactions (9 February 2010)

Embarrassing moments: at a supermarket (8 February 2010)

Parliamentary privilege (8 February 2010)

Blog design │ If it isn’t broke, don’t fix it? (7 February 2010)

Toyota and losing confidence (5 February 2010)

Sumo — Asashoryu retires (5 February 2010)

Creating ‘pages’ in Blogger (4 February 2010)

Am I addicted to the internet and depressed? (3 February 2010)

New cold war? (3 February 2010)

Direct Eurostar service to Amsterdam? (2 February 2010)

Sumo wrestler behaving badly (29 January 2010)

Is Britain out of recession? (26 January 2010)

News articles I read today — 25/01/2010 (25 January 2010)

Where’s my zodiac pig? (25 January 2010)

Kraft takes over Cadbury (22 January 2010)

Proscribing extremist groups (16 January 2010)

Earthquake in Haiti (15 January 2010)

Flanders │ We pay too much to the EU! (15 January 2010)

Netherlands │ Iraq inquiry (12 January 2010)

Facebook and expectation of privacy (11 January 2010)

Will the ‘Big Freeze’ end soon? (11 January 2010)

The ‘Big Freeze’ — will everything run out? (10 January 2010)

The only place shut on the high street (7 January 2010)

Explosives in the underwear? (6 January 2010)

Tokyo-Hakone long-distance relay race (3 January 2010)

Political speech of the decade (3 January 2010)

A robot like you (2 January 2010)