Archive for November, 2007
Thursday, November 15th, 2007
Louis Pasteur must be turning in his grave
… on a daily basis. The work of the former Strasbourg University Professor who fathered the process now know as ‘Pasteurisation’ is still regarded as an oddity here in France. In fact it seems most people have no idea what Pasteurisation is.
Why else would milk producers feel the need to write on their [...]
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
Eurostar.com - worse than Ryanair
Previously I had been advising my friends and relatives to buy their London to Strasbourg train tickets via the Eurostar website. As it was a cheaper and easier option than buying the Paris to Strasbourg leg separately through SNCF.
To my disgust, it now appears that this is no longer true. Eurostar are shamelessly [...]
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
Shame on the BBC!
The BBC should be ashamed of themselves. Once-upon-a-time their international news website was held up as the benchmark by which all others were judged, now it’s starting to look about as hip as a tweed jacket.
In the past, as a regular ‘international’ user of the site, I have been frustrated by dead links and [...]
