Please excuse my tendency for sensational headlines. Currently the British rain has invaded Cambridge. It’s the soft trickle that all cyclist enjoy so much because it wets all clothes. The city of Cambridge was filled with shoppers and incoming students, so I fled it as quickly as possible and went home to install the Internet connection on my laptop.

Back to headline: last night we had our first (informal) meeting of the new students of International Relations at Fort St. George Pub. About ten students were present, some Americans, some British students and some from other countries in Europe and the World. Interestingly some of the British students are distinguished gentlemen which already had a long career in the British Military. They have families and sometimes children and I think they will add a valuable perspective in our classes, so I look forward to join them in the debates. (more…)

I don’t know why, but whenever I have to make a picture for an ID card, I look like a goofy nerd. It’s always the same routine: all exhausted from running around the campus trying to get my paperwork together, I sit in front of one of these digital cameras attached to registration computers, they take a picture and it looks like I don’t know how to use a comb. The last picture from the ID Card of the Catholic University of Leuven was so terrible that I did not dare to show them to anybody except the library stuff. This time it’s not as bad, but almost. I don’t know how I managed, but before walking to the Card Office, I shaved myself and cut myself slightly on the cheek, and now the picture features a beautiful red spot on my right cheek - looks like marmalade. (more…)

It happened quite a while ago, but apparently Facebook banned breast feeding pictures which caused an uproar by Facebook users advocating for Lactivism. Read more at Switched.

MeinNachbar.de, one of quite a German Social Networks for creating ties between people living in one area, has been on-line for the last three months and is already hosting more than 50.000 users.

The site offers to connect users and their profiles via a GoogleMap, a feature that was already very popular among bloggers at BlogScout.de.

Thanks again to all participants at the Workshop on Friday. I posted a list of participants in the Googlegroup and I am updating the Blog-O-Pedia entry.