I don’t remember when, or how, I developed this strange fascination for streetlights. The fascination is such that I admitted a few years ago in a company of the uni friends that I approach each...
Unfortunately, I cannot update the previous post with the video I put up on YouTube. The video is a montage of the photos I took and the audio I recorded in Manchester on the day of the game. In addit...
Wednesday was my mother’s birthday, and it was a rather pleasant coincidence that Zenith, a Russian football team from St Petersburg, should be playing in the UEFA Cup Final on the day. In the m...
I‘m terrible as far as image browsing is concerned. There are many images that I like, and I save them. By default, they are saved to my desktop – as is anything else that I save or downlo...
A Friday afternoon can bring up many lovely memories. One of my present colleagues remembered how his father once opened a bottle of wine only to find a mouse in it. A visitor to my other blog recalle...
The symbols of our religious festivals aren’t as innocent as we’d like them to be. Recently the State Russian Museum in St Petersburg exhibited the works by Yuri Khrzhanovsky, a Russian ar...
As some of you may know, today is the Orthodox Easter. I cannot say my family or myself ever went beyond a simple mark of the day. The service in the main Moscow cathedral has been televised for years...
Earlier this week I read on TechCrunch‘s article about the Encyclopaedia Britannica giving out free one-year subscriptions to web publishers. Michael Arrington writes, “As an outsider, Bri...
Wednesday 9:01 am 4/23/08 Originally uploaded by robinhamman Many hours after I wrote a post about unsuccessful attempts to make St George’s Day a public holiday I came across this picture in Ro...
In the space of the last three years it’s been twice that I came across the appeal to vote to make St George’s Day a public holiday. The campaign is still going on, and this day is still n...