Welcome to Michael's World
Yup, this is me in San Cristobal, Chiapas, Mexico
San Cristobal, Chiapas (Mexico), July 2002

Welcome to Liebreich.com!

Yes, the voices told me I had to have my own website, so here it is. I still just love the idea that I can post stuff here, and the whole world can read it. I know they don't, it's just you and me. But it's the theory that counts.

Anyone who knows me, knows my obsessions. But now people who don't know me can enjoy them too! How cool is that!

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Engadin Ski Marathon 2008: find out about the race and how to join the Engadin Marathonistas!

11 November 2007

Engadin Ski Marathon 2007: find out about the race and how to join the Engadin Marathonistas!

6 Aug 2006

Engadin Ski Marathon 2006: find out about the race and how to join the Engadin Marathonistas!

18 Dec 2005

EU vs US Constitutions

7 May 2005

CounterSpy - I'm in love... with a piece of software!

6 Jan 2005

New Energy Finance - My new business, which is why I've been too busy to write much here.

5 Nov 2004
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Switzerland 2004 - Bloody climbing tourists!

1 Sept 2004

Engadin Ski Marathon 2005 - Time to sign up and join the Engadin Marathonistas for next year's race!

18 Aug 2004
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New Hall of Fame Poem - Leonard Cohen's Bird on a Wire.

28 Jun 2004
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Mountain Bike Tragedy - copy of Sunday Independent article on last year's attempted rescue in Bolivia

9 May 2004

Teen Porn Spam - Find out which large companies could stop it, but don't.

7 May 2004
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BBC Charter Renewal - the rationale in full.

20 April 2004
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Updated Euro-Quotes - including the latest from Tony Blair on his referendum U-turn

19 April 2004

Fallen Order - Read about my sister's new book, in which she lifts the lid on the Catholic church's first paedophile scandal

19 April 2004

Cool thingy - See all the countries I've visited

12 April 2004

Engadin Marathonistas 2004 - Please sponsor us!

20 Feb 2004

Euro Quotations - Why I am a Eurosceptic, in the words of the great and good.

8 Feb 2004
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Living Liebreichs - Links to people around the world bearing the illustrious name.

25 Jan 2004
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History of the name - Where does the name come from?

25 Jan 2004

Col Tim resigns - Hero of Iraq war quits army over political correctness.

12 Jan 2004

Endads finally gets FTCKed! - Disgusting Spam-Scam I ranted about is finally stopped

5 Dec 2003

Royal Humane Society Press Release - three group members given major awards following tragic Bolivian rescue attempt

30 Nov 2003
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Olympic Links - Updated to include all 2012 candidate cities and a few more critics

10 Nov 2003

OBE for Tim Collins - Col. Tim Collins, famous for his eve-of-battle speech, awarded the OBE

31 Oct 2003

Stop Spam - Letter to Derek Wyatt MP

29 Oct 2003

Contrast this - David Blaine, fasting, famine and hunger strikes

18 Oct 2003

Contrast this - two ways of looking at the liberation of Baghdad

16 Oct 2003
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Training Run Calculator - a variant on my marathon calculator designed to help set training run targets

22 Sept 2003

Beams over Baghdad - guest column by Stephen Claypole on rebuilding Iraqi TV

10 Sept 2003

Col. Tim Collins - cleared of charges of mistreating Iraqi civilians

2 Sept 2003
A timeless article - check it out!

Ginkgo Biloba - does it really prevent Acute Mountain Sickness?

24 Aug 2003

Varig, Brazil's national airline - what a disgrace!

21 Aug 2003

AXA PPP health insurance slammed by Ombudsman

19 July 2003

Spam-scams - one scam unmasked, and how to stop spam for good

17 July 2003

Easyjet - Lame letter of apology for grotesque service lapse

1 July 2003
A timeless article - check it out!

Dulce Et Decorum Est - Wilfred Owen's great war poem

19 Jun 2003
Timeless - check it out right now if you are planning to run a marathon!

Run Calculator - Use it to calculate your marathon targets

27 May 2003
A timeless article - check it out!

"Rage, rage, against the dying of the light" - Dylan Thomas

27 May 2003

Update: Messages of support (or otherwise) to Col. Tim Collins. Hero or thug?

22 May 2003

Update: "Our Business Now is North" - more on Col. Tim "Nails" Collins, whose eve-of-battle speech stirred the free world.

22 May 2003

Update: London 2012 Olympic Bid Update

16 May 2003

Review of the Support Economy by Shoshana Zuboff and James Maxmin

1 May 2003

Update: London 2012 Olympic Bid

23 Apr 2003
A timeless article - check it out!

Iraq's Cultural Heritage: Recover, Restore and Repatriate!

21 Apr 2003
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Emperor Frederick II - Stupor Mundi (Wonder of the World)

20 Apr 2003
A timeless article - check it out!

Must-read: The Evolution of Cooperation by Robert Axelrod

19 Apr 2003

Discussion/Visitors Book - what do YOU think?

15 Apr 2003

The sayings of Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf

14 Apr 2003

A selection of Must-Read Books

14 Apr 2003
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What now for the UN?

11 Apr 2003

Easyjet complaint update

4 Apr 2003

Why listen to an armchair pundit?

3 Apr 2003
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Why I support the war on Saddam Hussein

22 Mar 2003
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Our Business Now Is North - stirring stuff by Lt Col Tim Collins

22 Mar 2003

Engadin Marathonistas - 2003 Race report, participants' accounts etc

15 Mar 2003

Updated Olympic Links, including the absurd Jeux de la Francophonie

23 Feb 2003

Letter to CEO Ray Webster after Easyjet stranded me at Stansted

5 Feb 2003

Taco Worm Found in Woman's Brain

7 Feb 2003
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The price of Olympic Gold: £330 million per medal.

28 Jan 2003

London 2012 Update. The bid is on...for the moment

28 Jan 2003

Thunder and Lightning: pictures and facts

9 Jan 2003

Democracy, IOC style

5 Jan 2003

Olympic Links - The Olympic Movement and its critics...

1 Nov 2002
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Mt Etna Eruption - From the crater's edge during the 2001 eruption...

28 Oct 2002