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MM-cxix     Friday

2000-04-28

What do you get is you combine warm weather with lots of water? Mist and fog. With absolutely no wind that translates into a hazy day. While the sun is obscure from view most of the day enough heath accumulates under the haze. Over 25°C even. Maybe Matt would call it a cool day but for me that is about the max, any higher and I am uncomfortable.

I have been tormenting my keyboard to get the performance adaptation done. At one point I had the performance at unacceptable heights, creating over 25.000 order lines per minute. Oeps, an unending loop. In the end I got everything about ready. Tuesday we will do some firm testing. (Monday is Labour day and so we don't work. Logical isn't it?).

In the news.

In Belgium we have one world-famous gun manufacturer, FN (Fabrique National (French for National Factory)). Unknown? Does the name Browning sounds more familiar?
The latest order , some thousand P90 automatic guns (I am not an expert, the newspaper says "the best hand gun in the world, it penetrates five layers of bulletproof coats." (but WTF -who- wears five of these?) ) for Mexico is being disputed. It was authorized by the minister of Trade (?) but later some other ministers (Greens and Socialist) started to protest and want to forbid the export of weapons to Mexico. (The Greens probably because they are against any arms trade and the Socialists because (officially) Mexico does violate the Human rights (unofficial I guess they have nothing, electoral, to lose in the region of Herstal where the factory is).

We had a delicious (well I ate to much) baked salmon with asparagus and a butter/basilicum sauce. With a bottle of South African white wine.