As I’m sure you’ve already heard from every other media source in the world, Barack Obama has chosen Joe Biden as his running mate. I woke up this morning to find an email from the Obama campaign inviting me to write a ‘welcome note’ to Biden (not sure what the point of that is). I […]
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Arrived in Barcelona
August 29th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Politics, Spain, Travel
I took a train to Barcelona, it was a slow regional train that took five hours to cover the 350 km between Valencia and Barcelona. I’m not a big fan of the hostel that Danny and I are staying at. It’s way outside the center of town, one stop from the end of the metro […]
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Protest in Barcelona
August 31st, 2008 · No Comments · Politics, Spain, Travel
There was a big protest march in Barcelona yesterday. They passed down Las Ramblas which is the biggest tourist drag in town. There were quite a few demonstrators. The ones in the front of the march seemed very militant. They were shouting slogans and throwing flash-bang fireworks (you can see the smoke from one in […]
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At the data retention conference
September 19th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Hungary, Politics, Technology
My biggest impression so far is that the EU legal and bureaucratic apparatus is positively labyrinthine. I pity the poor internet service providers trying to make sense of ambiguous, poorly written directives. It seems like the EU imposed these requirements without much reflection and with only a very minimal amount of input from the public […]
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Why Context Matters…
September 25th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Hungary, Politics, Travel
OR When the Stormtroopers Are the Good Guys Last Saturday in Budapest, there were at least three significant political demonstrations. The first was organized by the Hungarian Democratic Charter (HDC), theoretically a non-partisan group, but one that was founded by the Prime Minister, Ferenc Gyurcsany, head of the Hungarian Socialist Party. It was a large, […]
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