It was ten years ago today, that my friend Sebastian and I packed up my dad’s Lada estate with all the personal possessions we could fit into it, mounted our bikes on the roof and set off for Hamburg to catch the ferry to Harwich. Sebastian went back to Berlin a year later, but I […]
I read this in an article about the “Webmaster of Al-Qaida” in The Economist today:
In light of this month’s failed attempts to set off car bombs in London and at Glasgow airport, allegedly by a group of foreign doctors and other medical staff, one exchange of messages found on Irhabi007’s computer, in a folder marked […]
Yesterday I was looking at my logs and found, to my surprise, that one of the top referers to my blog is a page on a website called terrorismcentral.com! Of course, I was alarmed. After all, these days you canot be careful enough. Turns out that my namesake Marcus A. Foster, an Oakland, CA educator […]
It has almost been three weeks since we moved into our new house. I had cleverly retreated to California for the actual move and Beth had to deal with it all by herself. To fully appreciate the daunting task she faced, let me remind you that the new house had been lived in by an […]
Right, so I have to say that I thoroughly enjoyed the two matches I went to at the Fifa World Cup 2006, Brazil v Croatia and the Germany v Italy semi final. It was awesome. They were the first two big football matches I have watched live. Like I said, it was great fun. Flying […]
Have been thinking about this for a while and just thought I ‘d better capture it. Your guess as to which characters in my professional life have inspired some of these.
Most commenly I think of two types of Generals. One is always charging ahead with his troups in the front line, inspiring them with his […]
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