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Nature’s way
My mother has a name for this kind of weather. She calls it “germ weather”. The kind of weather, she says, that you catch colds in. Spare a thought for Gary then, one of the managers at work, who was all set for escaping these miserable climes in favour of the blessed sun of Cancun, …
- Originally published: 24 Oct 2005 in Personalia
Cycling café stops and tearooms in Belgium
Café stops are essential to a British cyclist. But what happens when you want to find them in Belgium?
- Originally published: 6 May 2012 in Cycling
Culture and Columbus in the Canaries
From here the world’s horizons were pushed further away. Today Las Palmas is capital of the Canaries and host to a WOMAD festival.
- Originally published: 3 Dec 2007 in Europe
Service with a frown: the joy of Brussels taxis
Taking a taxi in Brussels is expensive: maybe the hacks should read some Confucian philosophy
- Originally published: 11 May 2010 in Editorial
Amburon
4/5. A new blonde beer from Tongeren with grassy flavours and a nice amount of bitterness.
- Originally published: 8 Oct 2011 in Beer
Stop ACTA!
A privately-negotiated international trade agreement that's anti-sharing, anti-privacy and anti-democratic.
Let's put a stop to ACTA.
Who you gonna call?
Hello, you. I'm Mike Padgett. I'm not a Princeton curator, Knoxville mayoral candidate, Kentuckian pastor or Arizona journalist, I just share the same name as those guys. I'm a user experience consultant, expatriate, traveller, writer and pro cycling enthusiast.
I'm originally from Yorkshire, England but nowadays I live in Belgium. My current favourite Belgian beer is Black Albert. I started my website in 2005 and I've been running it ever since.
Shameless self-promotion
Over a year in the making, Dopeology.org is my latest personal project: a topology of doping in thirty years of European pro road cycling.
I collected information from thousands of sources, then I modelled and published it via a lightweight user interface.

