We are on holiday in Greece. We are staying in Nidri (Nydri), Lefkada.
I am sitting with Max in an Internet cafe, writing these few words.
Who is going to be the Store Manager of The Month in November?
The Gherkin, the City of London's new landmark has won an architecture award.
Salam Pax whose weblog gave the world an insight into the lives of Iraqis, says fair elections are the only way to end the violence in Iraq.
He has also made several short films for BBC. You can watch the films here.
Picasso's Guernica still retains its power to offend and shock. According to Gijs van Hensbergen's new book Guernica: The Biography of a Twentieth-Century Icon, the United Nations in New York has a copy of it in tapestry. It hangs in a corridor outside the Security Council's meeting room, where it acts as a visible reminder of cruelty of war. Last year, however when Colin Powell attempted to persuade the UN into legitimising the war in Iraq the tapestry was suddenly covered!
This censorship recognises the great power of Art. ?What the picture showed up,? says Van Hensbergen, ?was the embarrassing contradiction of presuming to take the moral high ground while simultaneously campaigning for war?.
This is my portrait by Max. I didn't have a shave that day!