Who is Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a pre-primer
I caught a bit of a television program devoted to the Dominique Strauss-Kahn (DSK) affair this morning, and I have done a bit of research on the Internet. First, this affair is huge in France, newspaper sales have skyrocketed, the news weeklies are devoting 13-20 pages to it this week. DSK was, prior to this affair, thought […]
Prickly Expat Egghead Buys a Kindle E-reader
Readers of my blog may be interested to hear reports of my experiences with the Kindle e-reader. I purchased the device yesterday. The one I purchased was the “Wi-fi” model, on the grounds that I would not often need or want to download content while in transit. Generally speaking, there has been one overwhelmingly pleasant […]