Clinton says North Korea has no friends (reuters). Pyongyang to explore openings on Facebook. Karozzini fight ADT to retain Valletta business (TOM). Must involve a huge amount of horse-trading. Microsoft finishes Windows 7 and releases code to manufacturing (pcpro). Previewers think it’s quite a bundle. Valletta FC on the brink of making club history (indy). It’s all…

Not since the days of Alfred Sant’s “konvinzjoni morali” have morals been so much at the forefront. At the time Sant’s “moral conviction” was bandied around in areas where proof was hard to come by – some would say it was an unfounded allegation dressed up as faithful conviction. Nowadays the word “morals” pops up…

Back to work. Sort of. There is the usual Inbox to empty (I forgot to leave an Out of Office message). There is the pile of documents and the To Do list to tackle. Most of all there is the freakish Luxembourg weather to cope with. The icon on the iPhone weather program shows a…

It’s a day for travelling. Not that I feel like but needs must that I get on the plane and the various buses to return to the tropical weather of the north. It’s not been enough, thanks to the bloody cold that conditioned most of my stay. Let’s hope that my next August visit will…

This article and accompanying Bertoon appeared in yesterday’s edition of The Malta Independent on Sunday. Mediterranean stock I often worry that I will someday lose my mediterranean toughness – that capability to withstand extreme heat conditions with relaxed nonchalance, as well as the thick-skinned resistance to high levels of UV radiation (perceived – not real:…

This blogger is off for a two day visit to the home island. San Gorg beckons as does a little visit to the different haunts around Calyp. I am fully equipped for the expedition – including an ultra-kitsch answer to the hundreds of I LOVE MALTA t-shirts that can be seen around Malta: I made…