Tag: brussels
Trust (like interest on savings) must be earned
In these times just how attractive are Belgian government bonds?
Farewell, Jamila!
Dining out at lunchtime during the working week is a rare treat. This time we say goodbye to a colleague.
Laurent Garnier
Garnier and colleagues with a live machine musical experience that left me strangely wanting less.
Stouterik
3/5. A solid Belgian stout with strong roasted aroma and surprisingly fruity flavours in amongst the expected sourness.
French language characters on a qwerty keyboard
Retaining a qwerty keyboard in an international environment where French is commonly used.
Green credentials
Governments, global corporations and green issues: reflections on an environmental protest in Brussels.
Service with a frown: the joy of Brussels taxis
Taking a taxi in Brussels is expensive: maybe the hacks should read some Confucian philosophy
Introducing the Fashtonometer
A visual approach to the many fashion gaffes of Lady Catherine Ashton, the EU’s foreign affairs head.
Kuurne Brussel Kuurne
The 2010 Kuurne Brussel Kuurne was marked by strong winds and heavy rain. We caught up with the riders on the Oude Kwaremont.
Elsewhere on MikePadgett.com …
The Yellow Cross
After they scattered into the Pyrenees, the Cathars were hard to trace. So was the thread of this book.
- Originally published: 22 Aug 2008 in Books
Shaun of the Dead
Genre parodies based on the smalltown nature of little England. It’s becoming a whole subgenre unto itself.
- Originally published: 8 Jul 2007 in Film
Oh, we do like to be beside the lakeside
Forget Arthur Ransome, William Wordsworth and that Ruskin bloke, it’s time to get lyrical about our own Lakes experience.
- Originally published: 7 Aug 2006 in UK
Svea IPA
3/5. De Struise turns out a Swedish strawberry blonde, but it didn’t have me captivated.
- Originally published: 8 Oct 2011 in Beer
Third Eye Foundation and Matt Elliott
Music for ghosts played by ghosts: in concert with Matt Elliott and Third Eye Foundation
- Originally published: 21 May 2011 in Concerts
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. In fact, I am a consultant working in user experience and information design.
I also enjoy travel, concerts, films and walking.
I'm originally from Yorkshire, England but nowadays I live in Belgium. My current favourite Belgian beer is Black Albert.
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.