Philosofa

I go into the cafe at Möbel Hübner, order a latte, open Adorno's Minima Moralia: Was einmal den Philosophen Leben hieß, ist zur Sphäre d...

time out

I got an e-mail from my sister yesterday saying my father had died at 3am that morning at the hospice, so am on my way back to Florida. I m...

fixes

I spent the weekend on an intensive course in CSS at the Volkhochschule in Alt-Mariendorf. Given a choice I would rather not have learnt CS...

integration

Signed up for another month at my language school. My teacher said he thought I could skip two months and move on to the preparation course ...

testing testing

I have a couple of books on the TestDAF, a test of German proficiency for foreign students who want to study at a German university. I thou...

less clueless than commonly supposed

The FT has a little Flash movie explaining monolines, how they work and why they matter, here . Good news. (For all of you who've been...

Berlin Alexanderplatz

Another Country, the English-language bookshop in Kreuzberg, will be showing Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz (with English subtitles)...