Blogspot @ Head-over-Heels

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What’s the trouble?

These are difficult times and we need some cheering up. The economic situation is so miserable that I am sure we all are grateful for the amusing distractions politicians create these days. Bless them! They really try hard to make us think about something other than the economy. Their futile attempts to cheer us up [...]

Microsoft released Beta of Windows 7

You may have heard already that Microsoft released a Beta version of Windows 7. The download is available to everyone. It can be dowloaded up until early July and then used for 12 month. I quite like the idea. You get an impression of the new features and what Redmond has learned from Vistas failure. [...]

Ways out of the recession

Where the fearless leaders of our beloved Ireland introduce higher and higher taxes on cigarettes and punish the poor smokers and the even poorer tobacco industry, our comrades in China went down a different avenue. As we learned today, public workers in the district Gong’an (province Hubei) were ordered to smoke 230.000 packs of cigarettes [...]