There was an enormous spam attack overnight. It came to about 300 posts. I’m trying to install some software to more permanently forstall this problem.
I’ve deleted all the offending posts, but it’s possible that I have deleted non-spam posts as well, although I did my best to avoid that outcome. If I [...]

Yes, we’re aware of the Safari problem and looking into it. Any advice would be appreciated.
Update: Could Safari users please indicate if the problem has been fixed on their systems? Thank you!

Gentle readers, important things are happening this week. At the risk of telling you something you may have heard before - in only four days, on May 1st, ten countries will become members of a European Union that will hopefully not just become larger, but better (alright, over time). Only fifteen years ago, predicting such [...]

Gentle readers, you may not have noticed it, but about an hour ago, we at AFOE welcomed our one hundred thousandth visitor. It could have been you - but if I counted correctly, it was a reader from a British academic institution (ac.uk).But, obviously, he or she would not have the “lucky one” without your [...]

Missed an anniversary. Yesterday, it was six months since the blog was launched.

We were happy when AFOE was nominated for a Koufax Award, so we’re even happier to learn that we’re in the final seven for Best Group Blog. Thanks to everyone who’s nominated or voted for us and we hope to live up to your expectations over the next year!

We like to keep on top of the latest in high tech here at AFOE. So, thanks to our crack AFOE research and development team, you can now create links directly to comments on this blog by using the URL you get by clinking on the comment’s data and time.
AFOE Labs appreciates [...]

As David mentions below, the kind people at Fistful… have invited me in and asked me to do a guestblogging stint, in the (vain) expectation that I might have something interesting to say about things European.
For people who haven’t stumbled across me before, I blog over at the Virtual Stoa, was the subject of [...]

This week, A Fistful of Euros is very proud to present two new members of our team, Scott MacMillan, and Mrs Tilton. I trust they are already familiar to our regular readers, and their qualitifications speak for themselves.
A warm welcome to them both.
Also, this week we’re very happy to have the brilliant Chris Brooke [...]

As of yesterdeay, we have archives by author. Click on the eternity symbol after our names. Thanks to Kieran Healy for helping me out.