3. February, 2019
The no-deal rationale
A narrative emerges: “The EU anti tax avoidance laws will come into action soon, therefore the UK billionaires want to…
…musings, watches, stats, politics…
A narrative emerges: “The EU anti tax avoidance laws will come into action soon, therefore the UK billionaires want to…
After five years and a bit, we are leaving Cambridge. It is somewhat bitter-sweet parting. I’ve met some good friends…
There are a few replicas that are so good that they are termed NWBIG (Not Worth Buying In Genuine) in…
After the first two updates (both in this post), I got along fairly well with the SMP. It got put…
Seriously, guys. I know it is fun, but stop trying to reset my wordpress password. There are sites out there…
I am interested in watches. I like tinkering with them. I have a growing pile of parts that I hope…
It occurs to me that there is fundamental disconnect between reality and the expectations of English people. It looks like…
New immigration rules leaked to the Guardian. For those who are still interested in this freak-show: – no more indefinite…
A colleaugue of mine, posted a note on Facebook, comparing Trump to Berlusconi. This is what I think about it.…
There is now a fight going on about what the British people wanted when they voted to leave the…
Rolex DeepSea Sea Dweller is an iconic watch. Until it was superseeded by Deepsea Challenge it was the most water-resistant…
OK, the fallout begins. Here is a story from VOX about why apple abolished the headphone jack: How badly is…
I translated an article in Slovene about Brexit from a popular Slovene Magazine Mladina. To be clear, the following text…
Well. Hard to say anything really. I was ambivalent before and still am. On one hand I am…
Recently, I came across posts on Facebook, claiming that politicians are importing refugees and migrants into their countries in order…
I have been thinking about this for a while now. I keep getting exposed to vile facebook posts from sad…
There was recently an article about a Russian researcher running an article hub, here. In a nutshell, they made most of…
I actually wrote this some weeks ago. But it is still topical. D I keep seeing posts on the Internet…
I wrote this on a trans-Atlantic flight several years ago. I just came across it and thought I’d put it…
This post is about my efforts to restore my Sector STE200 watch that died because of water ingress. Here is…
In the previous post, I waterproofed Planet Ocean GMT with DG2813 movement. The ETA2836-2 PO GMT Replica Waterproofing is the…
I lost my old watch to a swimming incident – see the story here. I almost never take off my…
I used to have a watch. It was (is) an old quartz Sector STE200. I bought it 23 years ago…
I have done a presentation for a web-security firm in 2011. The presentation is here, and it is live, my…
Here is a post about how science could be improved. To sum up: Stop people from hitching themselves up on…
Ko grem na Facebook, se srečam z različnimi mnenji o noveli družinskega zakonika. Tisti, ki ne veste, novela družinskega spomenika…
Imam to smolo ali pa morda srečo, da sem periodično izpostavljen viharjem v žlici vode na temo cepljenja. Obe strani sta…
V Mladini (19.02.2015) je v izjavah tedna tudi tale: “Čedalje več je takih ljudi, ki so nadpovprečni” (Vlasta Nussdorfer na…
My research area is psychology of: persuasion, deception, fraud etc. I have an interest in other connected areas –…
SDS opozarja (po Twitterju, mensezdi), glej zgodbo, da se moramo varovati (parafraziram) “instant strank, z instant politiki in instant programom”.…
There is an initiative by the Slovene Tax Authorities to tax … carpooling, essentially. Here is the link to the…
There is an article in the Guardian, titled: “Advent of Google means we must rethink our approach to education” I…
V Dnevniku je 25.02.2013 objavljen tale članek: Plagiat je najprej huda sramota za mentorja Mislim, kako je to najprej huda…
Polno potovalko imam analfabetov in ludistov, ki se čutijo poklicane za to, da nam povejo kako bi moralo…
Štiri leta. Štiri leta! Če vštejemo prijave, čakanje, organizacijo financiranja, intervjuje.., potem šest! Od trenutka, ko sem prvič vstopil v…
Ko sem l. 2008 odhajal v Anglijo delat doktorat se mi je zdelo, da je Slovenija v dobrih rokah. Majer…
J. Janša v Dnevniku: “V zadnjih dneh imam težave razložiti svojim kolegom iz Evrope, kako je možno, da je…
18.07.2012 Tole pišem pred glasovanjem o t.i. zlatem pravilu. “Če ne boste glasovali kot jaz hočem, obstaja možnost, da vežem zaupnico…
… Kot vedno so bili najuspešnejši gimnazijci, ki so maturo opravljali prvič: od 6.248 jih je naporno preizkušnjo, ki je…
“LJUBLJANA – Zavod za zaposlovanje se je pohvalil z nižjo junijsko brezposelnostjo že peti mesec zapored, brezposelnih pa je po…
“Po mednarodnem pravu uživajo predsedniki vlad, držav in zunanji ministri popolno imuniteto, ki jih odvezuje tudi pričanja v sodnih procesih,”…
Le redkokdaj dobimo sleherniki tako lepo priložnost, da se spoznamo z razmišljanjem velikih. Tokrat imamo priložnost videti prezentacijo samega superministra,…
Tisto, ker ne gre neopaženo mimo nas, pa vendar se nam na videz neizogibno približuje, je prikrit vojaški udar. Janša,…
11.1.2011 glasovanje za mandatarja v slovenskem parlamentu definira nove standarde tajnosti. “Da ne bi kdo pomislil, da glasujem tako, kot…
V petek na SDS-ovi spletni strani objavijo rasističen tekst tule z naslovom “Jankoviča sta dvignila umetno ustvarjen strah in slovenska…
Na razgledih.net Janez Šušteršič piše o tem kako bi spremenil volilni sistem (toliko procentov volivcev kot pride na volitve, takšen delež…
[…]bi po eni od javnomnenjskih raziskav kar tretjina Slovencev odšla v kakšno drugo državo. Pavle Gantar: Če bi bile razmere…
I am participating in a longish discussion in a forum, where one of the things said made me…
I thought you would be interested to know about a very interesting scam that has been going around lately (well,…