Tag: european union
Leave the Internet alone
The day after some websites went dark in protest at proposed US laws on online intellectual property rights, the authorities shut down a file sharing service.
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.
Democracy is deaf
After Tony Blair’s appearance before the Iraq Inquiry in the UK, a few thoughts on the growing distance between politics and the people.
Attack of the obvious
A bit of office humour or a serious attempt at advising colleagues of important information? You decide!
Elsewhere on MikePadgett.com …
The Departed
The older generation still runs things round these parts.
- Originally published: 26 Feb 2007 in Film
Caye Caulker
Island life: Caye Caulker’s motto is ‘go slow’ and here visitors learn to take the rough with the smooth.
- Originally published: 29 Dec 2011 in Belize
Cantillon Brewery
Many visitors to Belgium don’t like gueuze. But like the cobwebs down at Cantillon Brewery, given time it will grow on you.
- Originally published: 30 Jul 2008 in Europe
Together (Tillsammans)
One of Moodysson’s lighter efforts: a warmhearted film for a cold winter’s night.
- Originally published: 14 Feb 2007 in Film
Omara Portuondo
When the singer isn’t feeling it, a gig can become an ordeal.
- Originally published: 28 Oct 2008 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.