Day archive for May 9th, 2006

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Forward to the past

Posted: May 9th 2006 23:28.

One does like the direction taken by the gaze being used to flag the referendum on whether individual rights were really such a good idea after all.


Categories: Les bourgeois, Splog

Really dumb French email tax proposal

Posted: May 9th 2006 22:14. Last modified: May 9th 2006 22:26

French conservative MEP Alain Lamassoure wants the budget-strapped EU to tax sms and email:
For email, the rate could be as little as €0.00001. “This is peanuts, but given the billions of transactions every day, this could still raise an immense income.”
Ironport’s data suggests that global email volume for 2006 will be in excess of 1000B [...]


Categories: Les bourgeois

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My 5% bookstore - new stuff



Spanish history

Modern Spanish fiction

Spanish classics

On this day

Barcelona

  • March 19 1840 Se coloca la primera piedra para formar la plaza del mercado de la Bocaría en el terreno que fue iglesia de S. José.

Josep Pla, Palafrugell (1918-9)

  • 19 de març de 1918 lectures, família
  • 19 de març de 1919 La meva germana Rosa m’escriu dient que han arribat les orenetes. Ara, al mas –penso– la simfonia primaveral deu ésser completa: les granotes, els grills, el mussol que cova al teulat, a redós de la xemeneia, el cucut, el xisclar voleiadís de les orenetes…

Catholic hagiography

The peepul's choice

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