On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 11:25:32 +0100, in rec.travel.europe, Martin <[email protected]>
arranged some electrons, so they looked like this:

... On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 19:13:42 -0600, [email protected] wrote:
...
... >In article <[email protected]>,
... >[email protected] (Martin) wrote:
... >
... >> *From:* Martin <[email protected]>
... >> *Date:* Sun, 11 Feb 2007 00:04:35 +0100
... >>
... >> On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 23:51:01 +0100, Magda <[email protected]> wrote:
... >>
... >> >On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 23:46:36 +0100, in rec.travel.europe, Martin
... >> <[email protected]>
... >> >arranged some electrons, so they looked like this:
... >> >
... >> > ... On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 23:27:39 +0100, Magda <[email protected]> wrote:
... >> > ...
... >> > ... >On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 23:14:25 +0100, in rec.travel.europe, Martin
... >> > <[email protected]>
... >> > ... >arranged some electrons, so they looked like this:
... >> > ... >
... >> > ... > ... A blast from the past or a message from Mixi?
... >> > ... >
... >> > ... >What??
... >> > ... >Ok, make that a blast from the past... The past four summers, to
... >> > be precise.
... >> > ... >
... >> > ... > ... Do you think his creditors have finally twigged that his
... >> > > cupboard is full of
... >> > ... > ... servers and taken them away?
... >> > ... >
... >> > ... >I killfiled Mixi *aeons* ago. I have no idea where he is hiding,
... >> > or what happened to him.
... >> > ... >You don't believe me, or what?
... >> > ...
... >> > ... Of course I believe you. You can take him out of kill file he has
... >> > vanished from
... >> > ... Internet.
... >> >
... >> >No. He will be back. He is like a hellish summer.
... >>
... >> I think he has gone for good.
... >
... >He hasn't updated his blog for weeks. A pity, because it was always quite
... >interesting in a Mixi-ish way.
...
... It took ages for his blog site to come up last night. For a few minutes I
... thought the site had gone.
... I think his creditors have seized his PCs and servers.

Maybe he is dead?

On 11 fév, 12:01, Magda <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 11:25:32 +0100, in rec.travel.europe, Martin <[email protected]>
> arranged some electrons, so they looked like this:
>
> ... On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 19:13:42 -0600, [email protected] wrote:
> ...
> ... >In article <[email protected]>,
> ... >[email protected] (Martin) wrote:
> ... >
> ... >> *From:* Martin <[email protected]>
> ... >> *Date:* Sun, 11 Feb 2007 00:04:35 +0100
> ... >>
> ... >> On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 23:51:01 +0100, Magda <[email protected]> wrote:
> ... >>
> ... >> >On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 23:46:36 +0100, in rec.travel.europe, Martin
> ... >> <[email protected]>
> ... >> >arranged some electrons, so they looked like this:
> ... >> >
> ... >> > ... On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 23:27:39 +0100, Magda <[email protected]> wrote:
> ... >> > ...
> ... >> > ... >On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 23:14:25 +0100, in rec.travel.europe, Martin
> ... >> > <[email protected]>
> ... >> > ... >arranged some electrons, so they looked like this:
> ... >> > ... >
> ... >> > ... > ... A blast from the past or a message from Mixi?
> ... >> > ... >
> ... >> > ... >What??
> ... >> > ... >Ok, make that a blast from the past... The past four summers, to
> ... >> > be precise.
> ... >> > ... >
> ... >> > ... > ... Do you think his creditors have finally twigged that his
> ... >> > > cupboard is full of
> ... >> > ... > ... servers and taken them away?
> ... >> > ... >
> ... >> > ... >I killfiled Mixi *aeons* ago. I have no idea where he is hiding,
> ... >> > or what happened to him.
> ... >> > ... >You don't believe me, or what?
> ... >> > ...
> ... >> > ... Of course I believe you. You can take him out of kill file he has
> ... >> > vanished from
> ... >> > ... Internet.
> ... >> >
> ... >> >No. He will be back. He is like a hellish summer.
> ... >>
> ... >> I think he has gone for good.
> ... >
> ... >He hasn't updated his blog for weeks. A pity, because it was always quite
> ... >interesting in a Mixi-ish way.
> ...
> ... It took ages for his blog site to come up last night. For a few minutes I
> ... thought the site had gone.
> ... I think his creditors have seized his PCs and servers.
>
> Maybe he is dead?

On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 12:01:14 +0100, Magda <[email protected]> wrote:

>On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 11:25:32 +0100, in rec.travel.europe, Martin <[email protected]>
>arranged some electrons, so they looked like this:
>
> ... On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 19:13:42 -0600, [email protected] wrote:
> ...
> ... >In article <[email protected]>,
> ... >[email protected] (Martin) wrote:
> ... >
> ... >> *From:* Martin <[email protected]>
> ... >> *Date:* Sun, 11 Feb 2007 00:04:35 +0100
> ... >>
> ... >> On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 23:51:01 +0100, Magda <[email protected]> wrote:
> ... >>
> ... >> >On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 23:46:36 +0100, in rec.travel.europe, Martin
> ... >> <[email protected]>
> ... >> >arranged some electrons, so they looked like this:
> ... >> >
> ... >> > ... On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 23:27:39 +0100, Magda <[email protected]> wrote:
> ... >> > ...
> ... >> > ... >On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 23:14:25 +0100, in rec.travel.europe, Martin
> ... >> > <[email protected]>
> ... >> > ... >arranged some electrons, so they looked like this:
> ... >> > ... >
> ... >> > ... > ... A blast from the past or a message from Mixi?
> ... >> > ... >
> ... >> > ... >What??
> ... >> > ... >Ok, make that a blast from the past... The past four summers, to
> ... >> > be precise.
> ... >> > ... >
> ... >> > ... > ... Do you think his creditors have finally twigged that his
> ... >> > > cupboard is full of
> ... >> > ... > ... servers and taken them away?
> ... >> > ... >
> ... >> > ... >I killfiled Mixi *aeons* ago. I have no idea where he is hiding,
> ... >> > or what happened to him.
> ... >> > ... >You don't believe me, or what?
> ... >> > ...
> ... >> > ... Of course I believe you. You can take him out of kill file he has
> ... >> > vanished from
> ... >> > ... Internet.
> ... >> >
> ... >> >No. He will be back. He is like a hellish summer.
> ... >>
> ... >> I think he has gone for good.
> ... >
> ... >He hasn't updated his blog for weeks. A pity, because it was always quite
> ... >interesting in a Mixi-ish way.
> ...
> ... It took ages for his blog site to come up last night. For a few minutes I
> ... thought the site had gone.
> ... I think his creditors have seized his PCs and servers.
>
>Maybe he is dead?

and mummified in his dry over heated cupboard?
--

Martin

Martin <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 19:13:42 -0600, [email protected] wrote:
[]
> >He hasn't updated his blog for weeks. A pity, because it was always quite
> >interesting in a Mixi-ish way.
>
> It took ages for his blog site to come up last night. For a few minutes I
> thought the site had gone.
> I think his creditors have seized his PCs and servers.

It's updated today- this caught my eye:

"Did I say that smoking was prohibited everywhere? That's not quite
true. Gutless politicians caved in to a few pressure groups, notably
restaurants and bars, which feel that they'll go out of business if
smoking is completely prohibited (even though smoke-free restaurants and
bars seem to be doing just fine)."

I thought that the ban in bars and restaurants had simply been delayed
until December. What's the story on this?

--
(*) ... of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate
David Horne- http://www.davidhorne.net
(don't email yahoo address) usenet (at) davidhorne (dot) co (dot) uk

On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 13:20:34 +0000, [email protected] (David Horne, _the_
chancellor (*)) wrote:

>Martin <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 19:13:42 -0600, [email protected] wrote:
>[]
>> >He hasn't updated his blog for weeks. A pity, because it was always quite
>> >interesting in a Mixi-ish way.
>>
>> It took ages for his blog site to come up last night. For a few minutes I
>> thought the site had gone.
>> I think his creditors have seized his PCs and servers.
>
>It's updated today- this caught my eye:

Perhaps he was lurking, hoping we wouldn't spot him.

"A former colleague recognized me from the back a few days ago, even though we
haven't seen each other in years. I asked how, and he said, "You're the only
person in Paris who wears hiking shorts and a photographer's vest at this time
of year." "

--

Martin

On 11/02/07 14:20, in article 1htdh0s.jaqzd01gsg6w6N%[email protected],
"David Horne, _the_ chancellor *" <[email protected]> wrote:

> "Did I say that smoking was prohibited everywhere? That's not quite
> true. Gutless politicians caved in to a few pressure groups, notably
> restaurants and bars, which feel that they'll go out of business if
> smoking is completely prohibited (even though smoke-free restaurants and
> bars seem to be doing just fine)."
>
> I thought that the ban in bars and restaurants had simply been delayed
> until December. What's the story on this?


Right. But the smoking is out everywhere else. One notes in walking
around Paris, the number of smokers standing outside office buildings
puffing away.

One problem is the accumulation of cigarette butts in front of
the buildings. The city is telling those responsible for the building
cleaning to clean up those too.

This occurs in two areas without a block of where we
live in Paris. One is a technical school in front of which the "kids"
stand smoking. The young take up the habit partially to show they
are now grown up.

When the "no smoking" campaign started years ago, it first was
initiated in the metro. Resistance there consisted of some young
rebels smoking not only on the quai but in the cars. They
were making a statement but nobody was listening. That
practice has long disappeared. Cigar smoking in restaurants
dropped off to mostly zero in the last 10 years. Most
restaurants only offered small no-smoking area, usually
within a few feet of the smoking areas. Being slightly
asthmatic I sometimes have a minor attack when I start
breathing smoke (tear gas is worse!) so I am careful about
where to sit. Even in the smoking areas I normally don't
have a problem. But in densely seated cafes it is a
problem.

So top chefs send out the "message" "please do not smoke
before eating my great food" Like apéritifs smoking
kills the palate and you might as well eat mush.

The thread is about global warming evleth, why do you bring up smoking
in Paris?

[email protected] (Zubenelgenubi) wrote in
news:[email protected] oups.com:

> The thread is about global warming

But the newsgroup is for discussing travel in Europe.

--
Bert Hyman | St. Paul, MN | [email protected]

On 12 Feb 2007 16:54:11 GMT, Bert Hyman <[email protected]> wrote:

>[email protected] (Zubenelgenubi) wrote in
>news:[email protected] roups.com:
>
>> The thread is about global warming
>
>But the newsgroup is for discussing travel in Europe.

and not where the Earl carries his tram ticket.
--

Martin

"NO NOTHING" (snicker) Pops is losing it.

It is called Global Climate Change, not global warming, because the
old name confused lay people into expecting an even temperature rise
over the entire earth. Science predicts weather EXTREMES, not a gentle
even warming.

--
Canadian Mind Products, Roedy Green, http://mindprod.com
Priorities: Prevent global climate destabilisation. End both wars. Prepare for oil shortages.

"Earl Evleth" <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> OK, Bach, start a real discussion.
>


Sure.

But consider moving it to sci.geography.weather, perhaps?


Just a thought.


M.S.