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When I die…

2007/05/03 21:45

I found this brilliant cartoon on Stephen Pollard’s blog on the website of The Spectator.

It’s just so spot-on – it’s exactly how a blogger’s mind works.

I Voted Originally uploaded by stickerbandit. Election day is only eight and a half hours away now. The day we celebrate democracy! I personally hope Scotland will be ruled by an SNP/LibDem coalition after this election, and that Labour loses power in Glasgow, too. The best website for the Scottish election is probably Scotland Votes, and Vote Scotland for information about how to vote.

It’s cold!

2007/04/29 21:55

Phyllis in Culzean Originally uploaded by viralbus. What is it about Scottish people that makes them believe the sea won’t be cold in April? They all seemed to jumping around in it, not just Phyllis. It’s Arran on the horizon, btw.

EN · PHOTOGRAPHY

Pretty macro photo

2007/04/27 23:03

ladybug Originally uploaded by armychefwife. Isn’t this just beautiful? I find it amazing how different many things look when you see them up close. I just wish I had a super-macro lens to enable me to take photos like this!

DA · POLITICS

Republik nu!

2007/04/23 22:04

Så fik Danmark endnu en prinsesse. Hun ser da meget sød ud, men hun ligner da mest af alt en helt normal baby, hvad hun da naturligvis også er. Men et normalt liv kan hun jo aldrig få, og da slet ikke, hvis hendes storebror skulle komme noget til. Tiden er i den grad løbet fra monarkiet. Det strider mod alle demokratiske principper om lighed, frihed og broderskab, og jeg fatter ikke, befolkningen (for slet ikke at tale om kongehuset) finder sig i det. Støt kampen for […]

DENMARK · ELECTION · EN · POLITICS · SCOTLAND

Negative campaigning

2007/04/20 23:14

Compared to Danish elections campaigns, the British ones are typically very negative. I can understand it makes good sense in a two-party system using first-past-the-post. However, I fail two see it really works when there are more than two parties with a chance of getting elected, and in particular with a proportional system like the one used for the Scottish Parliament. Just look at the photo here: It’s quite clear that something horrible will happen, and if you read the text underneath, it’s also clear that the […]

EN · GADGETS

Escaping alarm clock

2007/04/17 22:29

I saw this alarm clock mentioned on /. today. According to the page, it’s “[t]he alarm clock that runs away and hides when you don’t wake up. […] [I]f you snooze, Clocky will jump off of your nightstand and wheel around your room looking for a place to hide.” How cool is that? It costs £25 (DKK 275), but unfortunately, the website only delivers to the US and Canada. 🙁

EN · POLITICS · SCOTLAND

Not a day to celebrate

2007/05/01 12:37

Union Jack Originally uploaded by Orange Sweets. Where are the flags? Why is today not a bank holiday in Great Britain? Today is the 300th anniversary of the Act of Union between England (with Wales) and Scotland. If it’s such a great thing as the unionist parties proclaim, surely they should be out there celebrating it. Instead, all is quiet. There’s nothing at all in the online edition of The Scotsman, and only a small article or two in slightly less unionist The Herald. Most of the […]

EN · POLITICS · SCOTLAND

High time to join the euro

2007/04/30 22:02

When I moved to Scotland five years ago, all the newspapers were full of stuff about whether the UK should replace the pound with the euro, but nobody seems to mention it any more. I have the feeling people are quietly feeling happy and smug that the UK didn’t join, but I really don’t understand it. The interest rate in the Eurozone is 3.75% at the moment, while it in the UK is 5.25% and about to rise. Ever since the euro was introduced eight years ago, […]

DENMARK · EN · POLITICS

If we hadn’t abolished the gold standard

2007/04/28 00:02

My recent posting about the gold standard was perhaps a bit theoretical. I’ve now tried to work out exactly what the pound, the Scandinavian crown and the American dollar would have been worth today if they had still followed the link to the price of gold: Gold standard Modern pound Modern Danish crown 1£ (pound) £87.32 DKK 953.50 1s (shilling) = 1/20 £ £4.37 DKK 47.75 1d (penny) = 1/12 s £0.36 DKK 4.00 1g (guinea) = 1£ 1s £91.69 DKK 1001.25 1 crown = 5s £21.83 […]

DA · LINGUISTICS

Svensk for danskere

2007/04/26 06:56

swedish flag proportions Originally uploaded by georgeaye. Jeg ser i JP, at mange danskere nu er begyndt at lære svensk. Det glæder mig, at illusionen om, at danskere og svenskere (og nordmænd) bare kan tale deres modersmål og forvente at blive forstået, er ved at forsvinde. I min gymnasietid skulle vi læse en bog på norsk (et Ibsen-skuespil) og en på svensk (Fröken Julie af Strindberg), og vores lærer brugte måske en halv time på at lære os svensk, men det var jo slet ikke nok til […]

EN · IT · WEB

No new windows

2007/04/24 21:57

I was getting annoyed that Firefox opened some links in new tabs, but then I found this page. Perfect!

EN · KIDS

Rucksack days

2007/04/22 22:38

jogging in a rucksack Originally uploaded by phyl1. We bought a back carrier in Mothercare yesterday. They had two identical ones in different packaging. It turned out one was the old packaging and the other one was the new one, and they sold at the old price of £29.99 (DKK 329) and the new price of £39.99 (DKK 439), respectively. No prize for guessing which one we bought! Pudge was a bit sceptical at first, but he quickly learned to love it because it gives him such […]

EN · POLITICS

Gold

2007/04/19 23:28

gold coins Originally uploaded by technicolor. In the old days before the gold standard was abandoned, one ounce of gold cost £3 17s 10.5d, or US$20.67, or 77.18 Scandinavian crowns. That shows something about the inflation that has taken place since then. These days, a troy ounce costs £341, or US $683, or DKK 3740. Perhaps I should go out and buy some gold…

EN · NEIGHBOURHD

Garnethill on the net

2007/04/18 22:24

I just discovered that Garnethill, the part of Glasgow I live in, has its own website.

EN · FOODDRINK · KIDS

Useful kid

2007/04/16 22:38

Léon making pesto Originally uploaded by phyl1. One of the main reasons for having kids is to have somebody to do all the hard work for you. Up till now Léon has not really been pulling his weight, but today he made a really nice pesto in our new mortar. Yummy!

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