There has been a lot of discussion recently in Germany about the introduction of the new E10 petrol.
However I am sure that the question on most motorists’ minds is “will it damage my car?” [Read more…]
I suppose it was inevitable that once my daughter started school I would be comparing the school system in Germany with that in England – at least with the one I experienced at the end of the 1970s and throughout the 1980s.
But I wasn’t quite prepared for the cultural shock that followed, and am still often left trying to work out whether it is a difference between the national systems that I am observing, or whether times have just simply moved on.
When I went to to primary school in England… [Read more…]
Bloggers in Germany have only just recovered from not having to classify all of their posts. Yet other Government officials are still finding ways to make our life difficult.
Last week, data protection officials in one part of Germany decided that using 3rd party advertising on a website constituted an unauthorised passing on of personal data, ie. the IP address.
In a similar issue to the use of Google Analytics, this would mean that unless you host all of your banner adverts on your own server or webspace, you would need permission to show them from your visitors.
Can you imagine visiting a site and being asked if you would like to see it with or without banner advertising? What would you click on? [Read more…]
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