Posts from year 2013
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Review: A Cook’s Tour
Even though Anthony Bourdain had been writing several stories for a long time, it was Kitchen Confidential that made him instantly famous in the summer of 2000. Any fans of Bourdain’s travel shows that randomly pickup a copy of Kitchen Confidential, expecting it to be full of hilarious travels, will be quite disappointed.
The Knife in Munich
The Swedish band The Knife were all the rage a few years back. Their 2006 album Silent Shout was one of my favorites that year and received universal acclaim.
The dark past of Munich
The Munich of today is beer gardens, bratwurst and BMWs. A polished Bavarian jewel that sparkles with lederhosen kitsch and Oktoberfest delirium. But peel back the postcard gloss and you’ll find a city that once danced with the devil, and did so with shocking enthusiasm.
Roaming in Romania
Romania doesn’t exactly top the average traveler’s bucket list. No glossy postcards, no luxury resorts promising umbrella drinks and soft towels. Instead, what you get is the kind of raw, unvarnished charm that sticks with you like the scent of wood smoke on an old coat.
Greetings from Moldova
Moldova. Just saying the name out loud gets you blank stares and polite nods from people who couldn’t find it on a map if their life depended on it. Sandwiched between Ukraine and Romania, it’s a land that feels like someone misplaced it somewhere around 1983 and never bothered to look for it again.
Ode to Odessa
There’s something about a city perched on the edge of a continent, staring out at the dark oily sea from the faded grandeur of its baroque facades. Odessa is one of those places.
On a misty night in Kiev
It was a misty night in Kiev. I left the large Sophia Square, where the golden domes of Saint Sophia Cathedral and Saint Michael’s Cathedral normally are visible.
Exploring Chernobyl
It starts with a checkpoint. Grim-faced men with Geiger counters at the ready, guarding the edge of the 30-kilometer exclusion zone like it’s the gates of hell. Welcome to Chernobyl, a place where the past didn’t just linger, it exploded and then refused to die.
The death of Google Reader
A short time after the shutdown of WaSP, it was announced today that Google Reader will be closed on July 1st. While there are replacements available for the RSS reader itself, I can’t help but thinking of the larger picture.
RIP WaSP
When I started this site almost 20 years ago, the web was a completely different beast. Organizations such as the Web Standards Project (WaSP) were needed to bring order to chaos.