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About the last trip …

Monday, June 4th, 2007

… I didn’t give much details, so here it goes. Taking advantage of cheap flight tickets from Tampere to Franfurt-Hahn with Ryanair, and of good deals with rental cars, we decided to spend a week visiting “South Germany and around”. We didn’t have actual well-defined plans, but we knew we’d stop on Sunday at my […]

Orwell didn’t speak about drones …

Monday, May 28th, 2007

… but the Brits made quite a breakthrough in state-surveillance. You probably heard about those, but in case you didn’t, here are a couple of articles to catch up : in the Associated Press and in the BBC. Note that the BBC doesn’t show a picture of the drone, but of the army “version” of […]

C’éclair!

Friday, May 25th, 2007

Dear readers, this post is an advert. But a useful one ! My very good friend Alex opened a new blog, talking about organizing and efficiency on a day-to-day basis. Inspired by the life-hack studies, and strong of his experience of adapting to new places to live (he know lives in Madagascar, but has lived […]

French and politics

Monday, May 7th, 2007

Remark from my girlfriend while seeing some pictures of the Place de la Concorde in Paris, looking like an evening of victory in a soccer world cup : “It’s funny how your people are celebrating the new president … I mean, here, nobody goes in the streets after the presidential elections …” Good remark … […]

About the presidential election in France

Friday, May 4th, 2007

We are to vote this Sunday, and a few people asked me who I was to vote for … Let’s put it this way : I’ll vote for : Segolene Royal Nicolas Sarkozy Donald Duck ? I hate both candidates … I checked carefully, but they are so similar in a way : liars and […]

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