Comment je me sens en ce moment
Dessin de Mix & Remix paru dans L’Hebdo, 16.03.2011
Miguel Anjo
Feeling nice and contributing
Today I felt nice and just contributed to two services I used:
– RadioParadise.com, the web radio Eva and me have been listening no stop since we are back to Switzerland
– FindBiGMail.com, which helped me and my father to find the biggest emails in our Gmail accounts.
The service surprised me by its PrivacyPolicy.
A crise económica não está na Suiça
O meu banco resolveu, devido ao bom ano de 2010, oferecer 2010 cêntimos de franco Suíço (16€) a todos os seus clientes.
Strange emails – received today
from TheStarTracker
Sent at 02:18 (UTC). Current time there: 10:51 AM. ?
to Miguel Anjo
date Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 02:18
subject You’re birthday reminder
This is just to remind you that your birthday is on 15 February
The Star Tracker – www.thestartracker.com
Arbres et Lumiere à Genève
Genève, 28 November 2010 (il y a de la neige!)
Swiss elections
Switzerland – Democratic country with 7.78 million residents, of which 22% (1.71 million) are foreigners.
There are 5.02 million electors and the average participation in elections is 40-50%. Data from Federal Statistics Office (bfs.admin.ch)
Today a “majority” of 1.40 million (18% of Switzerland population) decide in favor – “Pour le renvoi des étrangers criminels” and 1.50 million againts “Pour des impôts équitables. Stop aux abus de la concurrence fiscale”.
Why I do not live in Portugal – reason whatever
This is the front web page from one of the “reference” newspapers in Portugal. The title says: “Obama kisses the daughter of Luis Amado [Portuguese Foreign Affairs Minister]”.
Living in Portugal would be, for me, like being in a TV reality show in permanence. Fortunately I got banned from the country long ago and now I go there just to enjoy what remains good: family, food and sun.
Seeing the americanization of the society (I believe it was in the US that all this lack of sensibility started, pushed by the capitalism and populism) makes me feel sad that there is no one with power to stop it. At least in the country where I was born.
And I do not want to comment about the ad-hoc “holiday” given by the Portuguese government for the people working in Lisbon due to the NATO meetings…
Directly from the source 1
(me, 6 November 2010)
What do I have in common with George Clooney?
A Nespresso.com email and unlimited Nespresso coffee (during working hours).
The privileges of a consultant. 🙂
Modification des heures d’ouverture des magasins a Geneve
Encore une votation ou les plus impliques (cassieres, vendeurs, vendeuses) dans la pluspart ne peuvent pas voter car ils ont pas de nationalite suisse ou habitent depuis moins de huit ans dans la meme commune.
Une phrase que de plus en plus je pense: “no taxation without representation”. Ne devrait pas, tout le monde que paye des impots dans un canton, pouvoir voter?