Via Delia Venables: here is a site by the artist Trevor Goring with over 50 pictures of justice over the centuries (all by him). The project ‘Images of Justice’ was founded in 1991. It also has links to other sites with images of law, for example Doug Linder’s Famous Trials site of images for which the copyright has expired, and Harvard Law Schools’ Legal Portraits Online. Actually, the rest of the links either don’t work or are unhelpful or do not relate to images. But Goring’s pictures are quite striking, and they can be bought, for instance as cards or electronic files.

Grafflmarkt in Fürth today and tomorrow. There is a wide divide between the professional and amateur sellers.

This part of Franconia is rather Protestant (and Moslem), but there are some devout Catholics about. Unfortunately I missed an opportunity to snap up the True Shroud of Turin.

Grafflmarkt in Fürth today and tomorrow. There is a wide divide between the professional and amateur sellers.

This part of Franconia is rather Protestant (and Moslem), but there are some devout Catholics about. Unfortunately I missed an opportunity to snap up the True Shroud of Turin.

Some final (I hope) remarks on the topic of how Google searches are restricted by country.

The reason I have had so many entries on Google recently is because some German sites pointed out that we could no longer access the US google.com in Germany (and I suspect that’s still true but am not sure) and they were writing about it only in German. I put it there in English in case anyone wanted to read that.

Further information on the bizarrely high number of results for „santa cruz“ (no inverted commas): 270,000-odd results in Germany, over 2 million in the USA (of course, we discovered that only 998 results are ever really shown), 220,000 in France, according to a colleague in France, who adds:
‚My brother in Lusaka, Zambia, gets 2.6 + million hits, and so does a nephew in India and a friend in Taiwan’.
And a colleague in the UK got 2.63 m for Santa Cruz and 2.49 m. for „Santa Cruz“!
I have not investigated whether the capital letters make any difference. Continue reading →

Some final (I hope) remarks on the topic of how Google searches are restricted by country.

The reason I have had so many entries on Google recently is because some German sites pointed out that we could no longer access the US google.com in Germany (and I suspect that’s still true but am not sure) and they were writing about it only in German. I put it there in English in case anyone wanted to read that.

Further information on the bizarrely high number of results for „santa cruz“ (no inverted commas): 270,000-odd results in Germany, over 2 million in the USA (of course, we discovered that only 998 results are ever really shown), 220,000 in France, according to a colleague in France, who adds:
‚My brother in Lusaka, Zambia, gets 2.6 + million hits, and so does a nephew in India and a friend in Taiwan’.
And a colleague in the UK got 2.63 m for Santa Cruz and 2.49 m. for „Santa Cruz“!
I have not investigated whether the capital letters make any difference. Continue reading →

ZDNet UK presents MP3 files of corporate anthems: often in curious English and apparently often originating from Germany.

The latest is by the Dutch accountants, GIBO Groep.

bq. Fiscaal, juridisch, P&O en ook bedrijfskundig
Daarin adviseren zij en zijn dus heel vakkundig

bq. Tax, legal, HRM and business administration
Is what they advise and are very competent

At least IBM seems to have a touch of irony.