Meanwhile over at the ICJ the USA and Russia (and Spain and Finland) have been giving their views. The USA arguments are smooth, somehow rather personal and elegant (including a nice oblique reference to Sherlock Holmes – the dog which did not bark, from Silver Blaze). The Russians are more formalistic […]
The Summit starts. Has the hacking/leaking of all those mails made any difference? Some pro-Summit people are saying that it must have been done ‘deliberately’ to try to mess up the Summit. By … sinister music … the Russians? Yet that argument makes sense only if it assumes that the material […]
On US blogs I keep seeing the word rube appear. As here: For all the talk of Sarah Palin being a rube, just a backward waif from Wasilla, Alaska, few seem to appreciate that she, more than any other rumored 2012 Republican nominee, has mastered the cutting edge art of […]
How one envies those few people whose blogs get mass readership and a steady flow of comments. All that work – for something! As 2009 ends I look back on the blogging year with bemused satisfaction. The number of Unique Visitors climbed steadily up until May (from small to not-quite-so-small) […]
Anna Raccoon has stopped blogging for a while but her site continues under guest supervision and is keeping up Anna’s brisk pace. But if you are interested in the dark underbelly of blogging – and who is not? – check out this posting over at Constantly Furious and the ensuing brawling […]
A wonder of our Age is the way in which smart people can gather speedily round a good piece of writing out there on the Web and chew it over, to and fro, looking at the issues it raises and how they link to other issues. When it works well, […]
Here is a circular going round from the London School of Economics:
An alert reader points out that I mischaracterised the ringing words of Edit Herczog in the European Parliament, as she compared UKIP’s Nigel Farage MEP to a tree-ascending monkey revealing its bottom for all to behold. She did not say Mr Farage, I’d like to say something, Hungarian quotation for […]
Respect has to be earned. And it can be lost. Especially by scientists. I’ve been on long-running projects, especially some years ago, where people start to lose track of which numbers came from where (and when), where the underlying raw data are stored, and the history of various assumptions and […]
The European Parliament is the greatest place on earth for practising the highest arts of fast and accurate interpreting: hundreds of interpreters are on hand when the Parliament is sitting to help get the 23 official languages each translated as necessary into any one of 22 other languages. Sometimes a […]
