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Re: setting a font for windows

Marc VdB

2005-11-09, 3:23 am

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> Wow!

Hey JP, glad you like it :-)

Did you enjoy your trip to Berlin ?

CU

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Jean-Pierre Martel

2005-11-11, 3:23 am

In article <5v2BNwP5FHA.1840@news-server>, VdBSoft@web.de says...
> Hey JP, glad you like it :-)
> Did you enjoy your trip to Berlin ?

Yes I've enjoyed that trip _even_ if I take into account the fact that I
was without my luggages for the first eight days of my stay in Berlin;
they were stuck in Paris because general strike in France. Only for the
Air France travelers, 100 000 luggages accumulated in Paris during that
strike. For one third of my stay in Berlin, I was without my concert
tickets, without my touristic guides and above all, without the
carefully-drawn touristic circuits made during the few months before my
trip. The result was that I didn't see everything that I wanted to see.

That being said, I took 1,200 digital photos in Berlin-Potsdam. From
these, I've made a 500-photo slide show that I'll show to friends and
members of my family during the next few weeks. Already my Berlin2005 (12
Mb) screen saver is ready.

I've assisted to the best classical concert of my life in Berlin and have
tasted, at Potsdamer Platz, the most extraordinary beer I've ever
experienced. Food is very good. The only mediocre meal was the first one
that I've tasted in Berlin (at Tim's Canadian Deli restaurant in the
Shöneberg district).

Last week, my mother, her room-mate and one of my brothers came to my
apartment for an evening during which I've shown a DVD (about the Sans-
Souci castle in Potsdam) and the extraordinary things that I've bought in
Berlin. They were amazed. Those who speak of 'old Europe' (as something
outmoded) simply don't know what they are talking about. As far as I
know, Berlin is the most vibrant and exciting city in the World.

If Berliners could smoke less in restaurants, Berlin would become
instantly a major touristic destination for Westerners (as it is already
for East-Europeans).

Jean-Pierre Martel, editor
The dBASE Developers Bulletin
Blue Star dBASE Plus Core Concepts Graduate

Ivar B. Jessen

2005-11-11, 3:23 am

On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 00:02:22 -0500, Jean-Pierre Martel <nospam@nospam.com>
wrote:

>
>Yes I've enjoyed that trip _even_ if I take into account the fact that I
>was without my luggages for the first eight days of my stay in Berlin;
>they were stuck in Paris because general strike in France. Only for the
>Air France travelers, 100 000 luggages accumulated in Paris during that
>strike. For one third of my stay in Berlin, I was without my concert
>tickets, without my touristic guides and above all, without the
>carefully-drawn touristic circuits made during the few months before my
>trip. The result was that I didn't see everything that I wanted to see.

Jean-Pierre,

When you travel by air _always_ have important papers in a carry-on bag
which you bring onboard and never leave out of sight. Newer let anybody
persuade you to check it in, never let a taxi driver take it from you and
put it in the trunk, never let a hotel porter take it from you, never give
it to a bellboy to bring to your room.

You will quickly learn this when you have tried to attend a meeting in
Singapore where you have to negotiate an important contract and all the
drawings and specifications with your notes have been put onboard a flight
to Brazil by you friendly airline, or your PowerPoint presentation with all
the handouts for a seminar are still in the safe of your hotel because you
had to leave at five o'clock in the morning to go by car and train to the
meeting place and the night deskman did not have the key to the safe.

Tooth brushes and new shirts can easily be purchased anywhere for little
money, personal papers and business documents are much harder to replace at
short notice :-)

Ivar B. Jessen

Jean-Pierre Martel

2005-11-11, 1:23 pm

In article < atj8n115ubrr7alt4flo
ejpas9tiriig33@4ax.com>,
bergishagen@it.notthis.dk says...
>
> When you travel by air _always_ have important papers
> in a carry-on bag which you bring onboard and never leave
> out of sight.

I already had my laptop, my digital camera, my passport, my credit cards
and my money on me. If I had decided to carry everything important on me,
my pockets would have weight 30 Kg each. Except for the precise touristic
circuits that I've drawn, everything in my luggages could have been
bought anew. However, you can guess that the list of articles brought for
a three-week vacation in a rented apartment is quite long. Do you buy
_everything_ anew or only a part of your missing items when you don't
know in advance if your luggages will be found in a few hours or if you
will left without them for your whole vacation? That was my dilemma.

I have lost two days shopping for a few items that I absolutely needed.
For example, in a city you never went to, where do you find a specialized
item like a USB-to-miniUSB cable in order to download your photos from
your camera to your laptop? In Berlin, I found it in a big electronic
store called Saturn (in former East-Berlin). Replacing items is always
more complicated in a foreign city than in your hometown simply because
you don't know where to look for them. Even consulting the local yellow
pages when you don't know the language, is rather ineffective.

Jean-Pierre Martel, editor
The dBASE Developers Bulletin
Blue Star dBASE Plus Core Concepts Graduate

Ivar B. Jessen

2005-11-11, 1:23 pm

On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 13:19:06 -0500, Jean-Pierre Martel <nospam@nospam.com>
wrote:

>In article < atj8n115ubrr7alt4flo
ejpas9tiriig33@4ax.com>,
>bergishagen@it.notthis.dk says...
>
>I already had my laptop, my digital camera, my passport, my credit cards
>and my money on me. If I had decided to carry everything important on me,
>my pockets would have weight 30 Kg each. Except for the precise touristic
>circuits that I've drawn, everything in my luggages could have been
>bought anew. However, you can guess that the list of articles brought for
>a three-week vacation in a rented apartment is quite long. Do you buy
>_everything_ anew or only a part of your missing items when you don't
>know in advance if your luggages will be found in a few hours or if you
>will left without them for your whole vacation? That was my dilemma.

Hmm, if you have a normal travel insurance including lost/delayed luggage
you start buying things after two days.

>I have lost two days shopping for a few items that I absolutely needed.
>For example, in a city you never went to, where do you find a specialized
>item like a USB-to-miniUSB cable in order to download your photos from
>your camera to your laptop? In Berlin, I found it in a big electronic
>store called Saturn (in former East-Berlin).

In Denmark you would go to one of the camera shops who develop/print
pictures in a couple of hours. They will empty your camera and burn the
picture on a CD for about 5 € in 5 minutes. You only have to carry the CD
home, no need to spend the vacation messing with computers and USB cables.

>more complicated in a foreign city than in your hometown simply because
>you don't know where to look for them. Even consulting the local yellow
>pages when you don't know the language, is rather ineffective.

But in this way you learn more about the city, the people and the language
than sitting in a sightseeing bus :-)

Ivar B. Jessen

Jean-Pierre Martel

2005-11-12, 3:23 am

In article < llq9n1lsppq3lkjorspq
fk2l3carpqhge2@4ax.com>,
bergishagen@it.notthis.dk says...
>
> But in this way you learn more about the city, the people
> and the language than sitting in a sightseeing bus :-)

Yes, absolutely. BTW, thanks for your suggestions.

Jean-Pierre Martel, editor
The dBASE Developers Bulletin
Blue Star dBASE Plus Core Concepts Graduate

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