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Anthony Zacharzewski

Anthony Zacharzewski

Working to make European democracy work. "Refreshingly free of the usual platitudes". Belge par choix, Brits door opvoeding. President of Demsoc.org but posts here are personal.

📍 Brussels

iTunes for stattos

I never knew till just now that you can copy the contents of your iTunes library view (or any other view) to Excel using copy and paste, on a Mac at least. This enables you to do all sorts of statto-ish calculations. For example, it turns out that since I

Solidarnosc

Norman Birnbaum remembers Solidarity on the 25th anniversary of its founding.

Tory leadership election

Ken Clarke has announced that he’s going to stand for the Tory leadership. I lost a lot of respect for him a few days back when he pandered to the sceps by saying that Britain won’t join the euro for at least ten years. It seems to be

Valencian metro

Jane and the kids are off to Jávea at the end of next month. Valencia, the nearest city, is a wonderful place, and I’m sorry not to be able to head over there with them. One of the best things on the web about Valencia is the website of

Drinking for Britain

Paul Skidmore at the Demos Greenhouse riffs nicely on the Daily Mail’s latest rant topic, the 2003 Licensing Act. Of course, the Daily Mail is onto a winner here. Lots of fuming sixty-somethings, the Youth of Today, What Was Wrong With The Old Laws. Sigh. And, of course, it’

Gas prices in the US

Metafilter discusses the prospect of American gas (petrol) prices reaching European levels.

Google vs MS

Scott Rosenberg muses on why, if Google is set to challenge Microsoft, all its non-web products are Windows-only.

Faith

I’m thoroughly enjoying the new blog I find your lack of faith disturbing. It’s comforting, or perhaps worrying, that even at the upper echelons of the film industry (my wife is in the lower echelons) it’s a grim, sordid business.

Civil rights? Eh.

The Register reports the disturbing results of a survey, suggesting that Brits at least are happy to swap liberty for security, whatever Ben Franklin might say.

Vote for Lewes

Lewes has been nominated by Country Life as one of Britain’s 15 best market towns. Celebrity judges, including Noel Edmonds, bizarrely, will now judge the best market town in England, from a selection that also includes Faversham (Kent) and Hexham (Northumberland).