Living on a Narrowboat
Martha lives in China.
With a Chinese boyfriend…
I read this interesting story about the costs and expectations for a young foreign man wishing to marry a fairly middle-class Chinese girl.
Found this funny image this-morning.
It’s a animated gif, approximately 2m worth.
Just to show how weather balloon technology has come along in these few years, the Chinese have managed to reverse engineer their own version.
“But it’s not a balloon”, I hear you scream.
Other speculations come in the form of ‘it was a refraction of the light’, ‘it was a mirage’.
The article is below.
Read it and make up your own minds.
Taken from Quartz
Got a friend that you don’t like?
Buy them this for Christmas…
Simply plug it in to any USB device, and hey presto! 220volts of Russian goodness will be making it’s way to your hard-drive, like bad sperm to an egg…
The device was created by a security researcher by the name of ‘Dark Purple’.
You can find more details of it here.
Two videos explaining the state-of-play regarding TTIP.
Two videos…
One for…
One against…
How corporate-speak is enlarging the benefits, only available to multi-national companies, at the detriment of local producers and non-multi-national business.
TTIP: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
CETA: Canada EU Trade Agreement
TPP: Trans Pacific Partnership
ISDS: Investor State Dispute Settlement
EFF: Electric Frontier Foundation
TiSA: Trade in Services Agreement
