Saturday, December 18, 2004

Last news post of 2004. Probably.

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The parting shots of a corrupt old bastard. Or, Iliescu leaves office. So Ion Iliescu is coming to the end of his time as president of Roma...
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Wednesday, December 15, 2004

Random nothingness

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It’s about time I wrote something, so I’m just going to start typing and see what comes out. I’ll be away from this blog for a good while s...
Friday, December 10, 2004

Moldavia

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On Tuesday we went to Iasi. Iasi (pronounced - more or less- Yash) is the biggest city in Moldavia, which if you remembered your hexagonal g...
Monday, December 06, 2004

Hungary and the referendum

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It didn't pass. Only 37% of Hungarians bothered to vote on it which means that it didn't have a quorum. Of those who did vote yes b...
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Friday, December 03, 2004

A mixed bag of stuff

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Bureaucracy day 2 First up, an update on yesterday's farcical tale of bureaucratic hilarity. Having completed all the relevant paperwork...
Thursday, December 02, 2004

Adventures in bureaucracy

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So, I'm working on getting my legal status in Romania. It's an experience. Today for example we (Erika and I) went to the tax paymen...
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Wednesday, December 01, 2004

December 1st

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Today is an important public holiday in Romania. I can’t tell you exactly what it is for – something like Romania Day, or the Day of Unifica...
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Monday, November 15, 2004

The elections

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No not the US ones. I'm having a moratorium on them right now. The Romanian ones. The election for president of Romania is coming up ...

Contexts Pt 3

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So, enough of my righteous indignation at that scum Bush and his mates from the Southern Fascist Convention inflicting four more years of th...
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Tuesday, November 09, 2004

So, who are they?

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The people who voted for Bush, I mean. I spent 6 years living in the US and in that time met one person who professed to be a Republican (b...