Mar
1
The End of Blogging?
March 1, 2009 | Comments Off on The End of Blogging?
Sameh Habeeb is a blogger we’ve used on the World Service a lot. He lives in Gaza and if you want an authentic street level voice he’s a radio programme’s dream: speaks great English, has an unusually excellent phone line and was never backward about coming forwards with his strident opinion — from the Palestinian […]
Feb
25
Scanners, Macbeth, 21st Feb
February 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment
I remember Louise Wener many moons ago wearing a T-shirt with the slogan “Yet Another Female Fronted Band”, I always thought it more a statement of the obvious than the sarcy self-deprecating irony she was going for. I mean focusing the cameras on a strong foxy chick while a bunch of spotty geeks with pencil […]
Feb
25
Rediscovered track of the month: February ’09
February 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment
A big thanks to Amazon.co.uk who a few weeks ago followed their US example and have made available
Feb
2
Big Brother . . .
February 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment
You might think that being on a plane means you are safe from Google Maps’ satellites . . . wrong.
Jan
24
Little Joy, Dingwalls, 21st Jan
January 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment
On paper it must’ve sounded like a great idea: gazillionaire globe straddling rock God teams up with cherubic Portuguese Che Guevara lookalike on the basis that they both kinda like the “same stuff”: a latino vibe straight outta Noo Yawk by way of Brazil. The following review appears in the latest edition of London’s premier […]
Jan
19
Flight myths debunked…
January 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment
As well as finally confirming that a plane can land on water the miracle landing on the Hudson finally proved to me something that has been bugging me for years: a jumbo doesn’t skim like a pebble when it hits the blue stuff but ploughs on through until it slows to a halt . . […]
Dec
21
All hail the king of sauces
December 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment
It’s always a pleasure to go to a new place and discover something unique about it. Costa Rica has a lot of unique things (see here for one) but I’m interested in anything culinary and authentic. Now as far as I know, here in London no deli nor fancy food shop sells this amazing sauce […]
Dec
9
Give peace a chance . . . and a syllabus
December 9, 2008 | 1 Comment
The road to peace is often rocky and in the case of the University for Peace literally so. Situated about 20 miles west of Costa Rica’s capital San Jose, the United Nation’s shrine to that most elusive of global ambitions is perched some 800 metres above sea level at the end of a precarious, snaking […]