Donald Jenkins
Donald is a bilingual New York based Apple kremlinologist and Prince Philip worshipper.
New York, NY
Male
About
Donald Jenkins has been blogging since 2005 on an eclectic range of topics. He takes a keen interest in information technology in general and in Apple in particular. He is currently based in New York and Paris and has lived in a number of places including, in no particular order, England, Switzerland, South Africa, New York and, more recently, France. His home, roots, kith and kin are all emphatically in the Anglosphere, but he was born in Geneva, Switzerland, where he went to school locally and became completely bilingual, speaking English with his Mother, Father and nanny and French the rest of the time.
Donald was educated in Switzerland, England and France. He read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford and is also a graduate of Ecole nationale d’administration.
At Oxford, Donald was active in University life, especially the Oxford Union Society. After graduating, he worked for a City merchant bank, then went to Paris, where he spent one year in the east of the city teaching a group of unemployed young people from underprivileged backgrounds to read and write as part of a project to bring them back into employment.
Donald entered French government service in 1998, working successively in the budgetary, media, cultural and diplomatic fields. He left the French administration in 2008.
Donald enjoys classical music, especially the period 1780-1850, spanning from Mozart to the younger Wagner, as well as English Church music (especially the sixteenth, seventeenth and nineteenth centuries), and opera. His other interests include English and French literature—particularly the period between 1800 and 1960. He rides a Scott bicycle.
Donald has an active web presence, mainly focused on Facebook, Twitter and Flickr. Digital photography, particularly since he has started using a digital SLR camera, is an even more recent field of interest, and one in which he still has much to learn.
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Oct 16, 2009
A time to gather stones together?
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time …
Jun 21, 2009
The superficiality of the Twitter #Iranelection fad and Mr Obama’s cynicism about the thug regime in Tehran sicken me
I am deeply distressed by the current treatment the disturbances in Iran by the media and the blogosphere.
These are the same wishy-washy, liberal elite that deliberately allowed Iran to be taken over a bunch of reactionary thugs in 1979. In doing so, they thrust a once …
Jun 19, 2009
I was the first customer in the entire world to activate an iPhone 3G S
It looks like I was the first person to have activated a newly-acquired iPhone 3G S. The people at Orange called me yesterday to ask whether I wanted to collect mine at midnight, as they were opening their Champs-Elysées store specially for the occasion, making them …
