Monthly Archives: January 2009

Politicians are just too slow

By John | January 27, 2009

It has taken German politicians three years to agree how cars should be taxed such that the tax reflects – at least partially – the amount of damage that their emissions do to the environment. US politicians spent most of the last eight years in denial that the climate could be influenced by humans. [...]

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Time to boycott Israel

By John | January 11, 2009

Naomi Klein in yesterday’s Guardian:
It’s time. Long past time. The best strategy to end the increasingly bloody occupation is for Israel to become the target of the kind of global movement that put an end to apartheid in South Africa.
I agree and I have been boycotting Israeli fruit and other products for some time now. [...]

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Microsoft Internet Explorer

By John | January 10, 2009

I have changed the template used for this site over the last week. And I have decided that I have spent enough of my life fiddling around with all sorts of hacks to fix the appearance of sites I have produced so that they appear correctly in Microsoft’s web browser.
All versions of Internet Explorer [...]

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How to keep young

By John | January 6, 2009

I must admit I hate exercise. Apart from cycling, perhaps. We have cycled from Munich to the Czech border and back in two weeks a few years ago. But where we live now is at the top of a 12 km long uphill climb of about 500 meters and when we first moved here, we [...]

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