I’ve just learned that Barbara Mertz, who wrote the wonderful Amelia Peabody books under the name Elisabeth Peters, died one month ago, at the age of 85. Those books gave so much pleasure, and inspired and guided our trip to…
Author: George Wood
I was born in California, but have lived in Sweden since 1975, working at Radio Sweden. I spent many years writing and presenting our program for shortwave listeners, “Sweden Calling DXers”. With the gradual phase-out of shortwave in favor of the Internet, I’ve since moved on to being our webmaster. My big claim to web fame has been that I was the first person in Sweden to post a radio program on the Internet, in 1994…the first person in Europe to post a radio program in English.
“How do you feel being a criminal?”
I didn’t record, but Jerome Segura of Malwarebytes did! Just got called by “Windows Technical Department”. This is the gang somewhere out in the world who pretend to be Microsoft, and get people to download malicious software (obstensibly to fight…
What Happened to Getglue?
When it came out a couple of years ago, I really liked Getglue. It was like Foursquare, only instead of posting that you were at a cafe or store, you posted what books you were reading, TV programs or films…
Britain Misses the Real Tobacco Legislation
I don’t get it. While the EU Parliament has bern enacting the Tobacco Products Directive: 10 July, Brussels – Today, Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have taken a significant step forward in the race against the massive harm that smoking causes…
EU Wants Sweden to Review EU-mandated (?) FRA Law
Against the background of the PRISM revelations, European Parliament News reports: Parliament’s Civil Liberties Committee will conduct an “in-depth inquiry” into the US surveillance programmes, including the bugging of EU premises and other spying allegations, and present its results…
Opponents of Gay Marriage Don’t Understand What Marriage Is
I’ve written about this before, but in the light of the US Supreme Court striking down the Defence of Marriage Act and California’s Proposition 8, and the recent demonstrations against the legalization of same sex marriage in France, it needs…
Who’s worse, the NSA or the Chinese?
Against the background of the revelation of the National Security Agency’s Prism program, spying on the world’s electronic communications, two very different publications in the past few days have illuminated government control, or attempted control, of the online world, one…
Flawed Apple TV update
Here’s the way the Unofficial Apple Weblog describes the update: Apple announced today that HBO GO and WatchESPN are now available on the Apple TV. Eddy Cue, Apple senior vice president of Internet Software and Services said that “HBO GO…
Book review: “Inferno”
The first thing that has to be said about “Inferno” is that it is much better than Dan Brown’s last effort, the disappointing “The Lost Symbol”. Inspired by Dante’s “Divine Comedy”, “Inferno” takes symbologist Robert Langdon on a tour of…
ios Office crashed and took my whole file
Yesterday Microsoft suddenly released Office for ios, long rumored, long dismissed by Microsoft. I immediately installed it on my iPad so I could test it for a blog review, this review. And when I was done, doing some final editing…