How about Avian flu?

It seems that people worry about avian flu spread over Europe on wild birds. People stopped buying chicken (veggie rox!); these animals are now in-jailed
This is what we hear on news.

What they never tell us something scarier – though I do not know if this is fiction, speculation, nightmare, or whatever – what would happen if, for example, a pigeon in a city like Venice is found infected by H5N1?

It’s going to be 5:00AM, and I’m typing this instead of sleepin…

A very long flight to Perth

The flight was very long, but everything went fine: thanks to Qantas for assigning me a seat with a lot of space around (near the exit door), I could move inside the plane without bothering anyone. Even check-in and boarding was quite easy, I expected it to be very stressing, but it was well organized. The guy sitting next to me was a French businessman going to Sydney for only a week! He left the plane in Singapore, where we arrived at 6:00 AM after 11 hours of flight. I walked a bit in Singapore’s airport: I never saw a so well organised and clean airport in the past. We took off to Perth at 7:30 with a British man who’s been reading his book all the time, possibly even faster than anatsuno, I was really impressed. I didn’t sleep at all during the 18 hours of flight (followed by a sleepless night).

Singapore Airport You can watch TV in this Airport

At around noon, we landed in Perth, I fetched my bags, went through the immigration and custom services. I was a bit scared, looked at what happened to other people (close look at luggage, I wondered how I could close my bag afterwards). But, when it was my turn, they just asked me if I had something to declare, looked at my passport, asked me if the address on my passport was still correct, I answered “yes”, and they said “Welcome to Australia” and stamped my password and I went to the other side.

I took the taxi to go to Perth’s Central Business District, where my first hotel was. It took about 30 minutes, and it did only cost about 30 Australian dollars.

The hotel wasn’t bad at all: swimming pool, sauna, spa, fitness room, 5 minutes walk from the mall, quiet room. I tried the shower first, then I wore my summer clothes and walked a bit around, just bought some sun screen. Then I went back to the hotel, had a swim, tried the fitness for a few minutes, and went back to my room where I unpacked my stuff. It was around 7:00PM. I just tried how good my bed was, then it was 2:00AM, and decided to remove my clothes and get in it. I woke up at 6:00AM, full of enery, and fortunately, had no problem with jet lag.

(That was exactly three years ago on the day of the post!)

PS: I installed Polygott, a plugin allowing multiple languages posts in WordPress!

The telecom industry

I wanted to figure out how cookies work, so I made a Web site pertaining to the telecom industry where people can register and shout, scream, cry and complain about operators. But they can also share their positive experiences.

The concept of this site is not to mention companies name when submitting an experience. If the company name is provided, I’ll keep it for myself and will maybe laugh one day when so many people are complaining about the same operator :)

The beta version is in place: some (important) features (profile edit, comments, ratings, contact between users, statistics, search) are still missing and I expect some bugs as I did all the back end today. The features will come slowly, so please be patient. It includes a tiny CMS I wrote for the occasion, using the Smarty (yumm, chocolate!) classes.

The site is www.czll.com, czll is a typo defining a broken call…

Do not hesitate to try it and report bugs!

Yeah, this is a come back in the telecommunication politics after many years in the darkness!