Taken from the back cover of Donald K Burleson’s new Oracle9i UNIX Administration Handbook, this has to be the worst ever, worse than the lounge at Luton, worse even than divorcee cruises out of Miami, although possibly not as hard on the liver: More shortly on the highlight.
I don’t normally read David de Ugarte, but this is strange: Las asociaciones de periodistas declaran como objetivo “luchar contra el intrusismo profesional”, conocidos comunicadores braman contra “los que pretenden hacerse pasar por periodistas” en la web y nuestras saturadas facultades alertan a sus estudiantes de que sus futuros puestos de trabajo están en peligro…
This morning’s revelations of a depression Prozac symbiosis are nothing more than a variation on the old Guinness-is-good-for-you pub therapy industry. The trick is to recognise it as such and manage it effectively. While it is evident that Hank Williams failed in the latter respect, I think that one of his songs contains a remarkable…
Andreu@Raïms notes moves by the local train companies to crack down on the 60% (source?) of travellers who under-declare the number of zones crossed, to say nothing of the large number who don’t pay anything at all. What surprises me is that I haven’t yet heard anyone use the words “fascist aggression”.
Our present troubles may seem like extremely dark shadows in what I am convinced is otherwise a remarkably beautiful picture, but I wish AP had put this slightly differently: A deadly car bombing outside the Australian Embassy in Jakarta left bloody corpses and severed human remains strewn across the busy commercial street. [snip] “I can’t…
The Bombay-based Life Insurance Corporation says that a eunuch called Janaki is ineligible for cover because he (the BBC uses “she” for some reason) is neither man nor woman. If I were an actuary, I’d be more worried about Janaki’s fortune-telling skills.
Hey, it only took the Guardian a year longer than bloggers to hear the Mostar Bruce Lee statue story. Ah, but the Guardian is a proper brand, so that’s OK.
Here, from Emil Helfferich (1878-1974)‘s Südostasiatische Geschichten (Jever/Oldenburg, 1966), is an account of what happened to another German-speaker who made light of girlie-men: He was German, early 30s, and came from a forest ranger’s family in Hannover. If not poverty, then extreme thrift had probably stood at the cradle of him and his numerous siblings.…