Soj appears very pleased that the government of Romania has taken the step of permitting foreigners to hold bank accounts denominated in local currency. The reason is instructive: because otherwise, Soj’s US dollars were depreciating in real terms. Strange days, these, when the Romanian lei is a safer bet than greenbacks…remember this post?
Read More Sign of the timesOh man, sometimes I feel that big, big rock’s rolling back on me.Can you believe this? (Kos) A school in California has decided to make all the kiddies wear badges containing RFID chips so they can follow them everywhere. What a good idea! According to this AP story, the detectors are placed in the entrances…
Read More RFID Madness: Let’s Brand the Children!It’s surely been suggested somewhere that newspaper diarists were perhaps the first bloggers. Well, The Guardian’s Marina Hyde managed to demonstrate that yesterday when her column, Britain’s leading source for gossip about Labour Party PR flacks, ran an item substantially identical to a post of Nosemonkey’s, without attribution… Meanwhile, we are forced to call Tory…
Read More Plagiarism!