If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Vote buying has trumped FUD-spreading and xenophobia in Spain’s most dispiriting election since democracy was restored. The country has been given in trust to a government that has spent the past 4 years slowing the country down, allowing inflation [...]
Posted on March 10th, 2008 by Roberto Hortal
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As I’ve recently commented, the current electoral campaign in Spain has been branded a dispiriting spectacle by at least two of the world’s most respected media institutions: the FT and Hortal.com
Luckily the Spanish character prevails. Fazed with constant disappointment by politicians from all parties, Political Sciencies student and blogger Eva Ros has decided to strip [...]
Posted on March 6th, 2008 by Roberto Hortal
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Spain goes to the polls this month in a general election. Faced with an global economic downturn and a local climate of tension, the campaign has been a truly dispiriting exercise.
Politicians have opted to use bribes, FUD and insults rather than policy proposals in a race to the bottom that is threatening to leave [...]
Posted on March 3rd, 2008 by Roberto Hortal
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Open is the concept of the hour. On the back of Open Source’s triumph -with Linux, Mozilla and the LAMP Web stack ruling the roost- Open has become the talisman to attach to any project to guarantee its success (did OpenOffice start it all?). The latest area to succumb to the Open moniker is the [...]
Posted on January 27th, 2008 by Roberto Hortal
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Got mine on Friday night. Left a late meeting and made it to West Street in Horsham around 7. The O2 store is just opposite the Carphone Warehouse, so I peeked at both looking to ascertain the size of the queues before deciding to go in. Both had about 10-15 people inside, most of them [...]
Posted on November 13th, 2007 by Roberto Hortal
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Over at Single Serving Thoughts esther has posted an innocent article about her experience studying high-school science in America. She finishes asking herself a question about whether experiential techniques should be more broadly used in education. So far, her usual territory. She normally gets a couple of comments per post, acknowledgements from friends that [...]
Posted on October 3rd, 2007 by Roberto Hortal
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