unemployed life

since 3 weeks i am unemployed and living from the friendly contribution from the 10 procent taxpayers of hungary. till now it was a lot of fun to have so much free time, but it would be nice to be able to start to work.
but i did not thought that you can have so much fun while not working: been to linz, italy, aquapark, was laying on the sun in every possible park in budapest, read books, all magazins wich i like, was riding bob and bikeing a lot. everyone should get one month summer holiday!

balmer in budapest

microsoft has sold for 100 million euros office programmes to hungary - which could have been purchased way more cheaper - lot of people say. the contract is made that way, that all universities and governmental offices have to use microsoft products.
one student was protesting with eggs.

china eating itself

i find interesting some aspects of the high oil prices. the high energy prices are driven on the bulk by the hunger of china and india. all studies are forecasting that the oil prices will continue growing - possible on 200 usd. it will change the 'flat world' how we know it: transport cost will grow dramatically and it will change our world economy. cheap labour cost countries will lose their competitiveness. globalisation will continue, but on a regional basis: europeans will produce in north-africa, eastern-europe; ameriacans in latin-america. europe can profit from high oil prices with the growing alternative energy shares: that way more money will stay in europe not by the oil exporting countries, and these masses of money can be the motor of a new economical growth - which is also more susteinable. and as europe is the frontier of alternative energy we can stay leaders in the world.

do you know cee?

there is a nice test on standard.at about central-estern europe, i also did not knew one, should travel more around :)

budapest is a bit dirty

i have desided to clean my windows, and it was shocking how dirty is the air in budapest. check the difference between the cleaned and the 6 month old version:

mountains drive prople really crazy

after the brutal affair of fritzl in amstetten and the kidnap of natascha kampusch there is again a shocking evenet from austria: a father has killed his son, wife, his mother and father and his father-in-low - in wien, amsfelden and linz - so he needed one day for this!
you could think that in austria violance and sexual abuse is much more higher than in other countries but in fact - i have searched several statisticts - austria performs international in the low- or middle-class. it looks like the some brutal cases are getting very big media reputation, or maybe a lot of cases stay hidden. these cases are showing the in wealthy states we still have huge problems with our societies - or mankind is just simply helplessly brutal.

mountains drive prople crazy

there is a new youth culture in austria, knowen as 'krocha'. these young people mainly in vienna have an owen 'culture' and speech - find the dictionary here. i was in italy on the springbreak party for austrian students and it was interesting that everyone started to use the speech of the krocha people, you just shouted 'bam oida' (tree dude) - and a lot of people replyed - 'fix oida'. this speech has absoltutly no sence, but everyone started to use - it will be interesting how long time does it take that people will forget this trend.
and if we speak about 'krocha' here is a video about their highly professional dancing and dressing style:

for more details visit krocha.tv