On 19th July 2005 I wrote a small blog entry about my frustrations with Ryanair, and also explained my blogging debut. “Am I too late jumping on the blogging bandwaggon?” I mused at the time. Looking back it for sure
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An odd selection of classic Youtube
A few things I’ve come across recently and thought I should share… A couple of these are thanks to Bente Kalsnes who always has a knack to find excellent things! 1. Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us RSA
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You’re reading the 5th most influential blog in Brussels (apparently)
I spent an interesting couple of hours this morning at the launch event of the Brussels Blogger Study 2010, a report by public affairs company Waggener Edstrom about influence of bloggers in and on the EU. You can download the
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The London plan
I loose track who I’ve told and who has just heard earlier stages of the plan… so here’s an explanation about my imminent move to London. Essentially for the last 6 months I have been wondering whether to move. After
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Diane 4 Leader – it’s not about the candidate as such, it’s more important than that
“If in 1994 you’d wanted to understand what our lives would be like right now, you’d still be better off reading a single copy of Wired magazine published in that year than all of the sceptical literature published ever since”
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The EU and mobile phone / 3G data roaming
I have respect for the UK blog Political Betting – I never bet on anything, but I like Mike Smithson’s rigourous analysis of odds. However when it comes to anything to do with the European Union reason and rigour seem
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Hopeless new web comms plan from Reding
Via Twitter I came across this post in French by Michael Malherbe about a letter sent from Commissioner responsible for Communications, Viviane Reding, to Commission President Barroso. Euractiv managed to get hold of a copy of the letter that contains
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The marketing sense of an elephant – Commission Representation to Belgium
One of my favourite political books – mentioned on this blog before – is Don’t Think of an Elephant by George Lakoff. The idea behind the title is to show what happens when the wrong words are used. You read
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Time for grown up football relations between England and Germany – let’s have Klinsmann in the BBC studio on Sunday
This weekend the World Cup starts to get exciting with the knock out round, and England are drawn against their old foes Germany at 1500 BST / 1600 CET on Sunday. When these countries have faced each other before the
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If I wanted to blow up a train this isn’t going to stop me
I’ve seen some idiotic security controls in my time, but yesterday at Estació de França, Barcelona, beats all of them. The station, as the name implies, is the old terminus station for trains from the north of Catalonia towards France,
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World Cup balls
As if anyone needed more evidence that I spend time thinking about odd things and then blogging about them, here’s yet more evidence: this is a post about the science of the ‘Jabulani’ balls used at the World Cup in
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Politicians that don’t get Twitter – MacShane, Byrne, Swoboda
There are two ways to use Twitter as a politician. The first (the right way) is to build a discussion, a conversation with people, to reply to normal Twitter users as well as other politicians and journalists. Politicians that understand
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