You’ll often hear me complain about my Facebook feed but this time I have nothing but thanks for the people who brought my attention to two very interesting experiments. The first one occurred in Washington, D.C. and the second one in Bucharest. I highly recommend you read both of those articles fully (first one is in English, second in Romanian) but the summary is that … Continue reading Understanding Stradivarius
A few changes to report around these parts. The first is that I have updated the FAQ for this blog. That section was actually the oldest part of the blog as it was first written in April 2010 and never changed since. I also tweaked a few other minor things. One other rather big change is I am now opening up all blog posts to … Continue reading Ch-Ch-Changes
As usual, during the day I had the sound off but was keeping my ever vigilant eye attuned to the the various TV news channels when I espied this: Greenpeace activists stormed Romania’s environment ministry on Tuesday, chaining themselves to radiators in the minister’s office in an attempt to stop approval for Europe’s biggest open-cast gold mine in a small Carpathian town. This story (and … Continue reading While Romanians Talk, Greenpeace Actually Does Something
Well a day late (and a dollar short, as we say), it looks like the Romanian media and blogging/online world has woken up to ACTA. I suppose that’s good. I know doing an informal “poll” of people I know, nobody had heard about this (here in Romania) until just now. Obviously as you saw in my last post, the same is not true in Poland … Continue reading Too Little, Too Late
Yes I know it’s been snowing like crazy in many parts of Romania and yes I know it’s pretty darn cold just about everywhere. But I want you to look at this video here from Russia Today. Essentially the video shows and the reporter states that tens of thousands of Polish people marched in the streets in multiple cities to protest their government’s signing of … Continue reading 20,000 Poles, Zero Romanians
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