Every time someone posts a comment I get an e-mail notification. This is “nice” – I can reply instantly if I’m online. I get the occasional bit of comment spam, one or two per day, but this is easily defeated in that any comment which contains a link (and spam always links back to their […]
She looked about sixty or so years old, respectably dressed, although with a somewhat-too-large St. Christopher medallion type thing hanging from her neck, lying on the ground with blood pouring from her face. As I approached her, a couple of people walked past her in the opposite direction, they glanced at her, but didn’t stop.
As […]
I have a friend (no, really) who works for a large translating company, she sent me the following screenshot today. If you’re going to translate something from English to German, get a German native speaker to do it and if you want something translated from German to English, I charge very reasonable rates.
German Word […]
As another hurricane is battering the Caribbean this weekend, I received an e-mail from a regular commenter, which I’m going to put up as my first guest post. As the title makes clear it’s about the aftermath of hurricane Katrina. Just about all I heard here in Germany was about New Orleans, about mis-management, how […]
Today is the 1st Whiney Expat Blogger meet-up in Marburg – a smallish University town in the north of the state of Hessen. I’d arranged to go by train, it’s a fair distance and by booking in advance I’d managed to get a 62.5% discount on the ticket, bringing it down to a very reasonable […]
Enough people have written about exactly why the Battle of Trafalgar was so important - Securing Britain’s trade routes first and foremost, giving her a century of naval superiority, annulling any idea of invading Britain, it ushered in a century of Pax Britannica and even enabling the slave trade (according to some) to be brought […]
