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  • Ljubljana

    Ljubljana is one of Europe's coolest capital cities, famed for its castle, beautiful bridges, vibran
  • Spoke too soon?

    So, less than an hour after I posted my why-oh-why plaint about Airtricity, the following message arrived, from the company’s Senior Marketing Executive no less:”Hi ShaneThanks for your em
  • It’s not easy being green on the Emerald Isle

    A rule of thumb for living in the Irish capital is that most activities are, unless you’re a government minister, about 20-25% more awkward than they should be. Making token gestures at environm
  • Enneagram Type Eight

    An Irish Times piece on Saturday by Shane Hegarty has pre-empted today’s blog rant but had not appeared when I brought up the subject with two friends on Friday night (during the earlier, more c
  • Censorship

    Gazeta Wyborcza has launched a series called “fifteen themes” of the third (i.e. post 1989) Republic of Poland. Part one deals with censorship. There is a photo of a page from the GW of Ju
  • Fisk: “Bush Plan Might Work”

    Yeah, I really had your there for a moment. Real headline–Robert Fisk: Bush’s new strategy – the march of folly.Incidentally, for Christmas, my brother bought me Fisk’s The Gre
  • Distorted reality

    The hoopla over Apple’s iPhone appears to reaffirm Steve Jobs’s famed ability to generate a reality distortion field. The virtual demo at the Apple site certainly looks slick. However, two
  • How Capitalist is Poland? (IV)

    “To dzięki nami bogaci stają się jeszcze bogatsi” is the proud slogan of an investment bank here in Poland. It means “It’s thanks to us that the rich are getting richer.R
  • At last, recognition!

    That Dublin’s traffic chaos is world class. A New York Times article comparing Beijing’s auto mayhem with the Irish capital’s explains how skyrocketing car ownership in Ireland is ca
  • Blueshirt Blues

    A while ago, I decided that in the upcoming general election, scheduled to take place sometime in the first half of 2007, I would bite the bullet and give Fine Gael candidates my first preferences. It