Stephen Fry, author, actor ( „A fish called Wanda“ etc.) and contributor to
the „Guardian“ is also a witty technoraty.
This Saturday he explains how to „pimp up“ your browser. In this case Mozillas
„Firefox“.
„Technical types can look away and snort gently: this is aimed at – well, I
have many friends who can, so to speak, drive around [...]
Archive for December, 2007
A Mac man up to his boots explains the advantages of Mozillas Firefox.
Posted in miscelaneous on December 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Modern Times. Think Postglobal !
Posted in Politics on December 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Turns out that journalist blogs in China think aloud about general inflation. I wasn’t good in economics at school. But I’m able to interprete the first chart below.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ba808080-a0f9-11dc-9f34-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_check=1
For a start try to understand these sentences.
Published by the Financial Times. See link above.
„In almost every corner of the world inflation is uncomfortably high, creating a giant [...]
Blogs of foreign correspondents in China
Posted in miscelaneous on December 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
http://www.danwei.org
is the first adress about „chinese media, advertising and urban life“ for foreign journalists in China.
Danwei – meaning „working unit“ in maoist times – has a slightly ironic but professional undertone.
Most news is ( yes „news“ is singular, because the phrase „news“ has abandoned all connections to the NEW. The new meaning is now: „happenings“) [...]
