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Archive for March, 2005

The price of the sun

Monday, March 21st, 2005

When I was still in France and saying I was going to Finland and Estonia, the first things that came always to people’s mind is the cold weather in these countries. Most of them were saying they couldn’t live there because of this.
And I was always answering that the sun is not everything in life. […]

Et Cetera: SkypeIn, amateur movies, update on older posts

Thursday, March 17th, 2005

I’m not blogging a lot these days since I don’t have Internet access at home yet, but here are some of the news I noticed in the last days.
Skype launched their SkypeIn service, which allows you to get a normal phone number for your Skype account. Over at Skype Journal they have a few interesting […]

Finland, not a broadband example

Sunday, March 13th, 2005

Who would have thought that Finland was a retarded country in term of broadband?.. The customer support guy from Sonera told me Friday evening “Sorry, your line won’t be activated before March 31st” (I made my demand on March 3rd). One month to get broadband!
And this is even not ADSL, it’s an inferior technology called […]

Back online in the cold winter

Thursday, March 3rd, 2005

We moved!
As planned Ingrid arrived in Nice on February 19th. We had some good time, especially on the food side. Thanks Soizic and Paul-Francois for the great dinner, and also for recommending us the restaurant Blanc Manger in La Colle sur Loup. We both agreed it was the best dinner we had on the Riviera, […]