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Ségolène Présidente?
"L'accession d'une femme à la présidence de la République est par ailleurs considérée comme naturelle par la quasi-totalité des personnes interrogées : 94% s'y déclarent favorables contre 5% opposés. 1% ne se prononce pas. En 1988, 91% des Français (contre 7%) se prononçaient dans le même sens, mais ils n'étaient encore que 52% (contre 39%) en 1972 et 18% (contre 75%) en 1946, rappelle le sondage."
On a quand même fait des progrès en 60 ans !
... and it has been rendered obsolete by this: its brother. Less than 3 months after releasing the new powerbooks, Jobs just announced the intel-duo based MacBooks. It's great. The specs are really impressive. But I just freaking bought a new one 3 months ago and now I'm off sync!!!
Within others, new specs include:
More details at this address.
We just spent a fantastic week-end in Maui with Andy and Cietta. I met andy at the same conference I met Céline, so some time ago now. Anyway, Andy and Cietta are now in Madison, and they rented this nice B&B in Hana, Maui, for a week, and invited us over for the week-end. That was short, but great. The road to Hana is still the same: tortuous, treacherous, winding, but really scenic. We spent the Saturday and Sunday morning with them and after that rushed back to the Kahului airport to take the Island Air flight to Hilo (via Kona). Overall a very enjoyable week-end, with lot of nice food and friends!
All the nicest pictures in our gallery.
A long day. Most of the morning was occupied by packing, after which we walked in Little Italy, Chinatown, Soho and TriBeCa. We were back at the apartment at 3:30, and left for the airport shortly before 4:00PM. There was a lot of trafic, but our taxi took us through secondary streets and we were in La Guardia at about 4:40. So, we though, ample time before boarding. Well, it turns out that Céline misread the itinerary: She thought we were taking off at 7:25 whereas we were arriving at this time! So we missed the plane!! The rest of it is a long story. We were put on standby on the next two flights to Miami, but could not get on. Eventually, a nice American Airines employee rerouted us to Chicago in a flight that was leaving the same evening. There was more cold sweat as the flight was horribly late (about three hours) and we were afraid it would simply be cancelled. It didn't happen. We arrived in O'Hare around 12:30am, got a room in the airport Hilton, and had a very quiet -although short- sleep.
January 1rst! We're in 2006. New York is quiet. Very quiet. It's Sunday, and the morning after new year's eve. What do you expect? We're with Marc and Laura and have decided to walk and take the circle line mid way around Manhattan. So we walk. From the City hall to Wall Street, and then to the Fish Market, where we stop for lunch. A good lunch. I find the food in NYC generally quite good. The beer is excellent too !! Once the lunch is over, we have only the time to hop in a taxi to go to west 42nd street, pier 83, where the circle line tour starts. I leave my gloves and hat in the taxi. They were MK apparel. Too bad, but I'm not gonna track them down the lost and found at the taxi company. That was a bad time to lose the warm apparel because we are outside on the boat bridge, and even though the conditions are not extreme, it's pretty darn cold. Anyway, here we go, on this 2 hour tour, half way day time, half way night time. It's very nice. On the way out, we pass Liberty Island, then pass the southern tip of Manhattan, under Brooklyn and Williamsburg bridges. I take a bunch of pictures (the boat moves around a lot, and I hope some of them will not be too blurry, which turns out to be correct).
When we are done, we take the bus back to Grand central station. We shake M&L at 5th avenue -they have a rendez-vous with their friend. We finish the evening at an excellent (encore) Afghan restaurant.
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