archive for July, 2008

from the comments (i am not a audio equipment salesperson)

Friday, July 25th, 2008

apparently there is a number of confused people reading this blog and checking my flicker account (or it some clever new form of comment spam that i am failing to understand). in any case these people seem to be (a) interested in audio equipment and (b) confusing me with the persons pictured in photos i […]

Telecom Package: we are not going to take it

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

The French/European advocacy group La Quadrature du Net (Squaring the Net) has issued an urgent appeal to act against a number of entertainment industry sponsored amendments to the legislative undertaking to reform the European law on electronic communications (“Telecoms Package”) which are currently being discussed at the European Parliament in Brussels. These amendments are aimed […]

louvain la neuve != zanzibar

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

although the sign pictured below seems to suggest some kind of connection between a fast food store in louvain la neuve and zanzibar, i have so far failed to find one, which is unfortunate as this is about the most desolate place that you can imagine. Catharina has called it a post-nuclear cityscape, and the […]