Month: September 2010
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the ferry to Anse-Mitan didn’t come
And it only comes and goes once per hour, but I have Marisa Monte in my ear, so it’s not really that bad, and I also started dancing on my own by her music. Out here you think, it’s not worth being ashame for this kind of exaltation.
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yet another blog? yes, in French
I will mainly collect bookmarks in French, but I will also write a few things now and then.
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heading for the beach at Anse-Mitan across the bay
I finally got the bus schedule as PDF on the phone, that will be useful.
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EUROPEAN COURT OF JUSTICE: Minor Invoice Errors – Deduction of VAT
Judgment in case Pannon Gep Centrum Kft (C-368/09) – Minor Invoice Errors – Deduction of VAT In other words: the taxman may and must not regard your invoices as nil or invalid, just because there are minor errors. A German interpretation of the decision: Rechnungsnummer muss nicht fortlaufend sein Der Europäische Gerichtshof hat entschieden:Das Finanzamt…
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digital cameras, the Orientation tag, pictures not standing upright
Modern cameras (some mobile phone cameras included) sense, what is up and what is down, if you take a picture. And if the software on your computer likes interpreting the “EXIF Orientation” flag of the picture, you will never notice, something unusual is going on. Some software doesn’t though, so sometimes you are tempted to turn…
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Stuxnet worm can control industrial systems – The H Security: News and Features
Stuxnet worm can control industrial systems – The H Security: News and Features
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Tip: Just the text, please! – stripping out all the presentation from the original source and just pasting in a block of text
Google Chrome Blog: Tip: Just the text, please! That is a really, really nice feature!!! You can use this shortcut in any (online Google) rich text editor (like Gmail’s compose window, or when writing in Google Docs) to strip out all the presentation from the original source and just paste in a block of text.
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on my way back, planning for a quick stop at Carrefour …
… for an avocado, maybe a ripe guava, and also maybe a nice, cold beer. Alright and also for enjoying the local middle and upper class spending their money there.
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on my way to the beach
The bus got suddenly filled with pupils leaving school. There was a sudden heavy shower. One of the bigger boys wanted to know sth. regarding the pho ne, I was a little nervous answering, but this seemed to help: je ne comprends pas tous les mots. Also the loud music was low again all off…
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Berlin – Zurich – Paris Charles de Gaulle – Paris Orly – Fort-de-France, Martinique
I actual wrote all this on 2010-09-02, but as I couldn’t blog it in sync with the real time line, as I was offline most of the time, I did not find the right time to do it. I just found this text in an open window of my OS X GNU Emacs, and as…