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- http://twitpic.com/17d5tu - First flowers of the season! We still have winter weather in The Hague, but on Sunday 7 March I noticed these fl
- Installed the newly released (3 March 2010) Nvidia 195 driver for 64-bit Linux: http://is.gd/9Jm2A
- http://twitpic.com/16j0av - Seawater blasting through a hole in a rock overhang, Costa Adeje, Tenerife on 28 February 2010.
- Back home in The Hague.
- Waiting to board at Tenerife Sur airport.
- Got food poisoning yesterday; lost 3 kg overnight!
- Sipping sangria in the shade by the sea.
- http://twitpic.com/15mfet - Many restaurants here serve Dorada beer, which is brewed on Tenerife.
- http://twitpic.com/15fszl - The Canary Islands were formed by volcanic activity. I picked up these pumice stones at a stretch of black sand
- My recent interview with @AntiwarScott regarding polygraphy and the anthrax mailings: http://antiwar.com/radio/2010/02/25/george-maschke-2/
Author Archives: George Maschke
Election Advertising in The Hague
Elections for The Hague’s city council are to be held on 3 March 2010, and around the city, the municipality has erected temporary billboards on which each party fielding candidates in the election can place a poster putting its case to the voters.
I’ve never seen anything like this done in an American election. It’s not [...]
Persian Word of the Day: ندانمکاری
Today I encountered an etymologically interesting Persian word: ندانمکاری (nadānamkārī). It’s unusual in that it incorporates a conjugated verb. The initial stem, ندانم (nadānam) is the first person negative subjunctive of the verb دانستن “to know.” Literally translated, it means “[that] I know not.” To this is appended the suffix کاری (kārī), which is analagous [...]
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Google Buzz
After watching Chris Fisher’s positive review of the new Google Buzz service, I’ve decided to give it a try. You’ll find my Buzz feed, and may follow it if you like, through my newly created Google profile.
Persian Word of the Week: ساندیس
On 11 February 2010, the 31st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution was observed in Iran, and it took place in an extraordinarily politically charged atmosphere, being seen as something of a watershed event for Iran’s Green Movement. As I followed the news on-line, I cam across a Persian word I had never heard before: [...]
Welcoming the Year of the Tiger in The Hague
The Hague has its own Chinatown, and every year the city hosts a Chinese New Year celebration with a parade and fireworks. On Saturday, 13 February 2010, the opening ceremony welcoming the Year of the Tiger was held in the city hall atrium. I was able to take some pictures from the side of the [...]
Krzysztof Skubiszewski, R.I.P.
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 [...]
Google Chrome Advertising Campaign in the Netherlands
I don’t recall ever seeing advertisments for a web browser in public spaces before. But now at bus stands in The Hague one sees these posters for Google Chrome. I also saw a very large billboard advertising Chrome by the freeway on the way to Delft today.
I rather like Chrome–in particular the speed with which [...]
Gareth Porter on the Alleged Iranian ‘Nuclear Trigger’ Document
In “Iran: New Revelations Tear Holes in Nuclear Trigger Story,” Gareth Porter follows up on his earlier report that “U.S. intelligence has concluded that the document published recently by the Times of London, which purportedly describes an Iranian plan to do experiments on what the newspaper described as a “neutron initiator” for an atomic weapon, [...]
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Typography Casts Additional Doubt on Authenticity of Alleged Iranian “Nuclear Trigger” Document
On 14 December 2009, The Times of London trumpeted what it claimed were notes produced in early 2007 “from Iran’s most sensitive military nuclear project” documenting Iranian plans to build and test a neutron initiator, a key component of an atomic weapon. The article received widespread international attention and called into question the US intelligence [...]
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