Chronica majora – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

The new geography of X is not Y

Berlin is not Bonn, Bonn was not Weimar.

Zend for the waiter

In the hour before Holland woke up I rewrote booze base access using Zend Framework – Ajax and other Greek words are apparently about to go out of fashion, and I’d been wondering idly for a while about using Zend and Google Spreadsheets for a simple CRM system for the local barber’s. Stuff: I don’t…

EU translators on €9K/month net

That’s what it says here, and for ‘”five pages” a day’. It’s a funny old market.

If colonial Spain was led by Don Quixote and post-colonial Spain by Sancho Panza, who’s in charge now?

“Before [1898], without a doubt, it was quixotic country, which thought of itself differently from what it really was,” Baroja wrote in 1927. “Before, in the period of adventures, Spain was led by Don Quixote. From now on, it would be directed by Sancho Panza.” (Via learned.english.dog, source?)