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Unsuccessful print using Adobe Acrobat Reader The German Post and their parcel service, DHL, have a great internet service – you can print your own stamps online (Just don’t try to use the internet address printed on the stamps – it doesn’t exist! It seems to have been a temporary glitch – the . . . → Read More: Adobe, Mac and the Post don’t get on I don’t like sitting in a smoky restaurant or pub and intensely dislike having smoking in my house. So you might think I’d be upset at the “smoker’s victory” being reported by the local and international press. The constitutional court has ruled that the law in some German states, prohibiting smoking in one-room establishments, . . . → Read More: A smoker’s “victory” in Germany? We visited a friend in Rostock from Thursday until today. It is a really lovely town – it has been nicely renovated since the reunification in the early 1990′s and is a very pleasant place to live. The historical building style uses bricks very effectively – and many of the modern buildings in the . . . → Read More: Rostock View from the Pentagon behind the scenes: US military officials are putting huge pressure on interrogators who question Iraqi insurgents to find incriminating evidence pointing to Iran, it was claimed last night… …Brose, 30, who extracts information from detainees in Iraq, said: ‘They push a lot for us to establish a link with . . . → Read More: USA / Iran from two viewpoints The Economist has published an interesting – and if you live in Belgium or Germany, depressing – table showing what percentage of an employer’s labour costs doesn’t arrive in employee’s pay packets. In Belgium and Germany, more than 50% lands in the government’s pocket or pays for compulsary insurance. What did surprise me, . . . → Read More: How much do they leave in your pocket? Op Art opened in the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt am Main yesterday. It contains optical illusions from the 1950′s and 1960′s by artists such as Victor Vasarely, Bridget Riley, François Morellet, Julio Le Parc, and Gianni Colombo. We’re definitely planning to visit it in the next couple of weeks. It’s on until 20th . . . → Read More: Op Art “Smoke” by Stefan Sous Stefan Sous, a German artist who specialises in displays of technological artifacts and lighting effects, has a web site which is worth a visit. Unfortunately, I haven’t figured out how to link to individual pages, so here’s a small taste here. Take a look at his works explosion, . . . → Read More: Smoke The Independent reports that 500 000 rubbish bins in the UK already carry an electronic device to identify the bin, which would allow the local council to track the weight of rubbish in the bin, and charge by weight for its collection. Which is quite a neat idea, I think. Our bin is hardly . . . → Read More: Pay by weight for your rubbish collection Germany has sold Israel 2 Dolphin-class submarines at a discount of 33%. The $1.27 billion contract, which was agreed under the previous SPD government, was signed in July. The subs are said by Jane’s Defense Weekly, to have the ability to launch cruise missiles with nuclear warheads. Is this a good use of German . . . → Read More: Germany sells Israel 2 submarines at 33% off After the failed bomb attacks on two German trains, Norbert Geis (a CDU legal expert) and Clemens Binninger (a CDU spokeman for internal affairs) have suggested in Bild-Zeitung that Germany introduce armed “Rail-Marshalls” similar to the Sky Marshalls introduced on aircraft by the USA. No wonder the country’s economy is in such a . . . → Read More: First switch on brain, then talk to the press |
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