Twitter: georgemaschke- Blue Mountain Gold coffee (a Jamaican variety) grown in Papua New Guinea. It is dark roasted and very good. :-) http://twitpic.com/2jcluj
- The rain on my windshield painted an impressionist landscape this morning. http://twitpic.com/2iae4n
- Rain in Holland is hardly news, but it has rained unusually hard in the past 24 hours, with water in the streets. http://twitpic.com/2iaa8u
- The unthinkable has happened: I have utterly and completely run out of coffee. Not a single precious bean left in the house!
- I have given up on Ubuntu One file synchronization. Too many glitches--including data loss--in particular with Tomboy Notes.
- If you would deny Muslims freedom to build #Park51 community center, then don't you dare call One World Trade Center "Freedom Tower."
- NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg's excellent defense of the so-called "Ground Zero" Islamic center project : http://huff.to/aNRwu5
- How to Access the Internet (A Guide from 2025): http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2010-06-24-n15.html
- Interesting commentary by @nickpatrick: "Did Americans in 1776 have British accents?" http://bit.ly/9buYtj
- This is the first coin dated 2010 that I've encountered. It's a Dutch 5 euro cent coin. http://twitpic.com/270jl6
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Krzysztof Skubiszewski, R.I.P.
Dr. Krzysztof Skubiszewski, 1926-2010
On Monday, 8 February 2010, Dr. Krzysztof Skubiszewski, the president of the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal (where I work) died in Warsaw at the age of 83. He had served as an arbitrator since 4 December 1993, and as president of the Tribunal since 16 February 1994.
Last year, I had the pleasure of showing him how to use a computer running Ubuntu Linux. I remember Judge Skubiszewski as having always been congenial and kind. I will miss him.
He is pictured here speaking at a farewell reception for a legal adviser at the Iran-US Claims Tribunal in The Hague on 17 December 2009.