Ever had the feeling you were loosing your time in a meeting ? Try a different approach, and see how much money you're loosing instead ;)

Mid-term Conference of the European Trade union confederation: Fight the crisis

Last night were published the first results on the european parliament vote. Nearly two third of the population didn't bother voting. As lot of extreme parties, both left and right have gained a seat (or 4 in netherland).

Politicians comment are quite something...

A Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel winner talks about development, patent, copyright, health, global warming.

"ll tell you a little bit about irrational behavior. Not yours, of course. Other people's."

;)

"Two minutes in heaven is better than one minute in heaven"

"Most of the Eastern European debt is held by Western European banks. [...] loans by Austrian banks to Eastern European countries are almost equivalent to 70 percent of Austria’s G.D.P. Now, Italy and Austria can’t afford to bail out even their own banks."

Hillary Cliton, U.S. Secretary of State, gave a "reset" button to the russian foreign minister... the translation was incorrect, and instead of perezagruzka, it was written peregruzka (“overload” or “overcharged”)

Just a quick memo on how to convert dos end of lines to unix ones using vim.