The 2008 edition of the Michelin Guides, a series international guidebooks to the best restaurants, has recently been released.
One of the big surprises: Germany now has more three-star restaurants (the highest Michelin rank) than Italy and Spain. Italian connoisseurs are shocked, to say the least. The new ranking of three-star restaurants comes in as follows:
France: […]
The Blackberry “B” List is a small application you can download to your Blackberry for storing and sharing your favorite locations for dining, drinks and shopping. The idea sounded interesting to me; it certainly got a lot of press, most recently in Cosmopolitan. So I downloaded it to see what all the hype is about.
My […]
The recent elections in Russia have brought new attention to Vladimir Putin and his political goals. As Chris noted in his post a few weeks ago, Putin “has managed to bring Russia back into the pantheon of important powers while running roughshod over its budding democratic process and otherwise acting like a mean-spirited bully.”
The international […]
Facebook, the popular social networking site, will soon be available in German and French versions. The translations will be performed by Facebook members. Over 2000 German natives volunteered to translate the site in two weeks. A Spanish version was completed by members in February.
Translations for free is becoming a popular trend. For another example of […]
In a previous post, I wrote about plans in China to clean up the environment for the Olympic Games this August in Beijing. In turns out that China is also planning on lowering their Firewall restrictions, at least in locations where large number of visitors will be. As reported in the March 2008 edition of […]
The good news: Almost everywhere I go on business these days (hotels, airports), WiFi is available.
The bad news: Outside of the US, WiFi is rarly for free and the price is rising.
The hotel I will be staying at next week outside of Paris charges Euro 15 per hour.
Recently, I got a UMTS card for […]
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