We customers just sit back and let the torrent of astonishing cheap electronic devices keep coming, each generation more wonderful than the last. It’s all down to Moore’s Law: crudely speaking, the idea that every two years or so the amount of computer bang you get for your buck in fact […]
I was reminded today of the famous, nay unique occasion back in August 2003 when a sizeable group of Newcastle United suporters were hosted at the British Ambassador’s residence in Belgrade. What happened was this. Newcastle United FC were in town to play a Champions League qualifying match against Partizan Belgrade. […]
Jermain Defoe goes back to Tottenham Hotspur FC. Let’s have a bit more of this, please:
So little time, so many genders, so much immorality. Dr. Sa’d Al-’Inzi: A man is not allowed to expose the area between his navel and his knees. Nobody is allowed to see his private parts. Someone who goes to these parlors and exposes this part of his body is, undoubtedly, […]
The victory of England over Germany in the friendly football international this week brought back memories of this odious memory: the England team giving Nazi salutes when England played Germany in Berlin in May 1938. According to some versions it was Sir Nevile Henderson, HM Ambassador in Germany, who applied […]
Russia, says the Guardian, is opting for a charm offensive to try to see off the deployment of sophisticated US missile defence systems in Poland and Czech Republic. It did not take long for the Obama team to encounter the complexities of Poland and points East: President-elect Obama has spoken […]
Here, if you can face it, are some of the Weathermen, not so young now but yet burbling on about their wondrous contribution to world affairs.
Via Volokh Conspiracy an interesting account of the way top chess Grandmaster Vishy Anand prepares to face his rival Vladimir Kramnik over a long series of games. How best to focus Vishy’s analysis – on countering Kramnik’s likely strong systems, or hammering his (relatively) weaker ones? Which reminds me of the famous […]
Sometimes being an Ambassador is excruciatingly painful. Back in 2006 the marvellous Croatian Ambassador in Warsaw Nebojsa Koharovic hosted a group of us to watch Croatia play England. I was given a front-row seat as Ambassadorial Guest of Honour. It was not going well, with Croatia a goal up. Then […]
The world takes another step towards the Internet Cloud as Google launches its new browser Google Chrome. We, the vast mass of mere users, have almost no idea of what is happening to deliver these miracles of networked cleverness. Here (via Charles Johnson) is as simple an explanation as we might hope […]
