Busy waiting

Posted on January 25, 2007 - Filed Under Uncategorised | 5 Comments

Some of you has wondered what the heck has happened to me. No blog entries usually means that I’ve been busy doing more important stuff than to rant on this site. However, as a consequence of the last week, I’ve realized that the opposite is true as well. Yeah, that’s right. I haven’t been doing […]

The no-nonsense guide to world history

Posted on January 14, 2007 - Filed Under Uncategorised | 4 Comments

I want to believe that this book changed my life. The history of the world, condensed down to 150 tiny pages. With nifty comments and relevant parallels to the modern world, it’s a page turner. And I’m a new-born New Internationalist.
So if history has any consistent lesson it is that all civilizations decay — to […]

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