Last 2 weeks in a nutshell

Not much spare time to update my blog, so here are the last days in a nutshell:

• Java- Finally the deal Oracle/Sun got approved by the EC. It was about time, we could not go any longer with this. Is this good? I do not know. I guess it would be better to have Sun as an independent company, but it is better to have Java in the hands of Oracle than in IBM's.
• Economy- Few countries in the Euro zone are collapsing. In the last 10 years we had many criticism towards the euro currency, but I do not hear any criticism anymore. Yes, because for countries like Greece, Ireland, Spain or Portugal the collapse is not complete due to the strong currency they have, otherwise it would be "copy paste" from Iceland. As always, thanks to Germans and French for babysitting us.
  
• Portugal- What a disaster, it gets me so sad the way my country is evolving. Besides the major issues in financial terms (a deficit higher than 9%) the top government people are involved in recursive scandals which are beyond any acceptable limits. The country is far worse than 10 years ago. Really sad...
• Luxembourg- Suffering from the crisis as well, I hear more and more stories about people loosing their jobs. The unemployment stats should not be trusted because a part of the people which live in Germany/France/Belgium and cross the border to work here do not count as unemployed whenever they loose their job. So it goes through a tough time, but of course, this is a very rich country,and can manage such periods in a more relaxed way when compared to other European countries.
• Weather- It snows, snows and then snows again.... Long and hard winter.