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So the Times must have gotten their feathers ruffled by the news that their spanking new premium scheme is rather “hackable”. That’s only if you call refreshing a page before the irritable subscription request pops up “a hack”. The thing is that beyond what are surely teething problems for the Times (and more particularly for…
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Kurt Sansone’s Sunday morning article introducing the Times’ (of Malta) new premium scheme kicks off with a tenuous comparison to the introduction of the Rediffusion a good 77 years ago. Biblical scholars tell us that the number 77 signified a very large number as in Jesus’ affirmation “I tell you, not just seven times, but…
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You’ve probably by now seen the news clip featuring Charles Ramsey the saviour of the 10-year captives in Cleveland, Ohio. News crews have been roaming the neighbourhood trying to obtain different angles from neighbours in the area. How long had you lived nearby? Had you noticed anything strange? The usual really. We saw the same…
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Ai primi degl’anni novanta facevo le mie prime incursioni nel mondo della politica. Un attività decente nella gioventù del partito democristiano maltese (ufficialmente ed anacronisticamente Partito Nazionalista) andò a combinarsi con una fame di informazione nutrita da settimanali politici stampati e rubriche politiche in TV. La notte si passava con un misto di satira e…
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If René Descartes and Anselm of Canterbury met in a fictitious room in some other dimension we cannot be sure what the resulting conversation would be. Provided they overcome linguistic difficulties of sorts (but heck, if we create the fictitious room we can create a Douglas Adams Babel Fish – or they could just both…
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We have been away and will be for some time yet. It’s a special time in the J’accuse family. The younger J’accuse – who is as similar to J’accuse as night is to day – will be tying the knot this weekend. He may be Malta’s topmost podologist (just kidding, no ethical issues involved here…