now

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011

Now I need you off Once upon a time (1977) by Donna Summer and Giorgio Moroder. Just some people who lit my youth up. This kind of thing was happening before the religious types Reagan and Thatcher showed up and crapped everything out, their followers, the ferengies, killed all the humour. Did you notice that [...]

European Union: how to ensure a stupid administration

Thursday, August 5th, 2010

Here’s how to ensure a stupid and mecanic administration in the European Union: First, organize a complex activity of exams, then forget about those who pass them. Second, write the staff regulations, which are reasonable in size but contain idiotic provisions, like: – split the contract and temporary agents into groups, each group with several [...]

where your money goes

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

Did you pay your taxes this year? So a Microsoft Windows 7 Professional license costs 300USD, a Microsoft Office 2007 Professional costs 500USD, and Adobe Acrobat costs 450USD and Adobe Photoshop is 700USD. For web design you’d need Adobe Creative suite 4, which costs 1700USD. This means about 3700USD are needed from your taxes to [...]