2009/12/24

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all of you! And a very special, loving one to Agnieszka, Laurence, and Sara - my trio that I couldn't do without!

2009/09/06

Bit Alchemy Revolution, which is proudly (oh, well... somewhat, at least) hosted by Tonakai Studio, has got a new design after many years.

2009/06/08: Up and running again

The problems mentioned in the previous post is now fixed. More or less.

2009/06/01: And hilarity ensues...

My web hotel has changed server for my site, which has led to the usual cracks in my web walls. In other words: for the moment there's trouble with the navigation menues on some pages. Troubles like in there is no visible navigation at all. Oh, and the Pairing Machines over at Bit Alchemy Revolution doesn't work. It will all be fixed, but it may take some days, and the priority is as usual the more critical (i.e. more visited) subsites first.

2009/01/20: The president is gone, long live the president

It's the twentieth of January and the United States of America have got a new president, and with that the world has got itself a new most powerful man on earth.

Let's be candid about it, he is going to disappoint us. No question about it. But with these expectations I almost feel sorry for the poor man. The world pretty much expect him to be Lincoln, FDR and Kennedy in one person. If he manages that, he will most certain go to the history as the greatest US president of them all.

That said, here's my personal to do list for Mr Obama:

- Make the USA at least look like a country ruled by the human rights again. You know, no torture, the rule of law, the right to be tried by an impartial court, all that basic stuff a modern democracy is supposed to adhere to.

- Sign the Kyoto agreement. Even if it is not near enough, it at least is a start. And if the rest of the world can do it without threatening their economic development too much, probably the USA can too.

- Infuse money in the economy if needed, but do it responsibly. Have the financial institutions give something in return, stakes of ownership could be a good thing. As for the car industry, I'm not so sure. Then we are on a slippery slope where pretty much every industry can come asking for state money. It is better you use the money on state construction and improvement project and such things, like the traditional Keynesian theory calls for. Unfortunately, if I remember correctly it also called for maintaining a positive balance of the budget in good times, and a negative in bad economic times. Starting out with a trillion dollars or so in debt from the good times might not exactly follow that scenario, but that's not really your fault after all.

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