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I’ve got my own love affair with Paris going on. Here’s Michael Owens’ take on how his perspective changed.

Check it out. Elaine Axten is not only using her social media knowledge, but her firsthand experience with the history of blogging and the most social aspects of Web 2.0 make her a compelling read. Doesn’t hurt that she name checks me, either.

Spent most of the weekend reading a seemingly endless number of articles in both German and English about the fall of the Berlin Wall a quarter of a century ago today. While I might still write about it after digesting the data, here’s what Michael Owens had to say.

Good stuff. While I wouldn’t explain these things in exactly this way, I’ve certainly noticed the same things.

Hmmm…there’s a lot more to this. Not just the costs. Although it’s been quite expensive, most here seem to generally support the idea of Reunification. I think the criticism has been with how it was handled and that the costs continue to this day. It’s seen as a bureaucratic boondoggle, and if you question it,… Continue reading Germans Love a Day off, even if the Reasons Behind it are Uninspiring

Thanks for this Albert. Good stuff.

Mostly I write at home, but sometimes between appointments I find myself scratching something out in a café. Like this one. There’s a column in one of the local papers where readers ask questions and one of the journalists answers in depth. Well, as in depth as is possible in a few paragraphs. The question… Continue reading Another coffee, please…oh, and why are you so worried about people looking through your stuff?

I’ve seen this place before, but it’s not been open when I happened by. At some point I want to go in and see if they’re being hipster ironic or if this place is what they say they are. And what’s a Polish loser like anyway? How might he be different from any other run… Continue reading Club of the Polish losers

‘Can you just go without your phone for a few minutes?’ He asked me this and I thought, ‘Yes, of course. It’s the weekend. No-one’s trying to reach me right now. I’ve got plenty to be doing, anyway…’ That was several hours ago. I wish I could say this was easy. To be truthful, this… Continue reading Don’t call me right now