Year: 2011
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A crash-course in inflation
The gentleman in the picture below works in one of the many shops in the souq in Mutrah in the captial of Oman, Muscat. In addition to being a persuasive seller of pashmina and “same-same-but-different pashmina” shawls, he is also a numismatic. Among the curiosities of his collections he counts a Jugoslavian 1 000 000 000 (one billion) dinar…
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Google search August 2011: 1 110 000 hates, 969 000 loves Facebook
I haven’t conducted my love/hate Facebook search for a couple of years and thought that it could be interesting to see how the phenomena has developed since then. The relative numbers appear to be the same: “I love Facebook” returned 969 000 hits “I hate Facebook” returned 1 110 000 hits I am surprised –…
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Happy 2011!!!
Somewhat ironically, since I moved abroad three years ago, the number of posts written in English have gone dramatically down. In order to catch up, here follows my best wishes for a happy 2011– as well as a posthumous happy 2010 to you all!!! Merry Christmas and Happy New Years card which was not sent…
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