Showing posts with label rants. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rants. Show all posts
Friday, October 21, 2016

Small town Romania

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I never write here any more, I guess I've run out of things to say, but from time to time I guess events still have the power to rouse ...
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Tuesday, July 01, 2014

Testing my patience

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So, I wrote last week about the important tests for 8th graders which go a long way to deciding their next 4 years. I mentioned then that...
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Thursday, February 09, 2012

The Romanian Education System (3)

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Finally, many months after starting this small series, I am ready to get to the third and last part of it - though obviously since I starte...
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Monday, January 30, 2012

What I learned from iTunes

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Many many many years ago, I divided my computer time between an Apple and one running Windows (I don't remember who made the computer, b...
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Thursday, January 26, 2012

Romanian Education System (brief reprise)

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This is a sort of coda to my post on money in the Romanian education system  (or rather the lack of it). I still have to write the third in ...
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Friday, January 13, 2012

My Hopes for Transylvania in 2012

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It's the New Year, and I have a dream, and all that... I have this utopian vision in which people get over their need to be intoleran...
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Thursday, March 03, 2011

The Romanian Education System (2)

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OK, part 2 of my searing expose of the problems in the Romanian education system. This one is the really BIG one. Money. Romania doesn't...
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Wednesday, December 08, 2010

Unprincipled

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Somehow the sight of people selling out their (apparently deeply held) principles is worse than the sight of people who you knew had no prin...
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Thursday, October 21, 2010

To the Manor Osborne

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I know someone who, because of depression, hasn't been able to work for years. Some days he is OK, some days not. There is no way he ca...
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Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Whinging Poms

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Or is it whingeing? The Internet seems divided . Last week some friends and colleagues ran what I can only describe as a fantastic week-long...
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Friday, March 05, 2010

Evangelism and its discontents

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Am I the only person who really really cannot stand evangelism? I'm not just talking about religion here, though obviously there are c...
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010

i-dolatry

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Today half the internet is in a state of wild-eyed, priapic excitement over the latest whatever-it-will-be that Steve Jobs reveals today. G...
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010

The Last Big Lie of Thatcherism

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It's probably apparent where I stand on Thatcherism to anyone who's read much of anything on this blog, so I'll not go into it i...
Wednesday, December 02, 2009

An authentic must-read post

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Spent the kind-of-semi-official-4-day-weekend* in Budapest, enjoying a weekend with Mrs H (and without children), and generally having a goo...
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Monday, August 10, 2009

Things that irritate me about Romania

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(part umpteen in an occasional, but almost certainly infinite, series) If you try and change money here they only accept perfectly pristine ...
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Friday, January 09, 2009

More anger

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I'm still too upset/angry/disgusted by the massacre going on in Gaza to post coherently on any other subject (less joking about my inabi...
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Sunday, January 04, 2009

Unhappy New Year

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Making comments about Israel and Palestine on the Internet tends to be the most surefire way imaginable of getting loads of mad crazy people...
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Thursday, October 30, 2008

Debranded

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If you do not live in the UK or do not regularly follow the news from there, you are probably unaware of the main story of global significan...
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Thursday, September 25, 2008

With friends like these

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I've recently been perusing English language blogs that have the word Romania in them for research/laughs. It's quite remarkable ho...
Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Beyond the Palin

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So, to sum up: The USA looks quite likely to elect a man as president who's main qualification appears to be that he spent part of his y...
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