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August 18, 2005

Where is my cryptocard?

The good news: before catching the plane yesterday, my laptop fell on the street, and it is still working. The bad new: it's case opened, and it looks like my cryptocard fell at the same time and I lost it. At least back home here I cannot find it, within the whole mess of cloth and papers and the content of 3 weeks advertisement in my mailbox. Sh...

The cryptocard is a like a micro-pocket calculator, that is synchronized with my computing accounts in Fermilab and gives me a new password every time I want to log in. I haven't "kerberized" my laptop, so how can I login now? I am officially on holidays, but if something goes wrong with the Database, I still need to be able to intervene. Oh no. I don't want to take care of all this hazel now. And I sleep very badly on the flight, and my mind just refuses to work today.

Yet, despite everyone saying that NW is crap, it is not that bad: a brand new Airbus, with a cutting edge video system (going actually over the edge in the middle of "Madagascar"), some turbulences, a window seat and a chat with my neighbor: an emigrated Indian Chemist, who just finished law-school and will be a patent-lawyer in Chicago. What was really crap, was the arrival at CDG: it took one full hour, between landing and getting the passengers to the terminal - it felt like the bus from the plane to the terminal wanted to give us a sighseeing tour of the airport, with some picture stops in the full sun - it drove me nuts. At least the luggage made it by then as well.

Comments

Missis: What is this: so many problems of logistics for everybody!

Just one point: It is unpossible that Jacques Chirac would have said 1996 for bathing in the Seine: he was not anymore the mayor of Paris since a long time.

the true date what 1992 predicted a long time ago before: i note one more time, that french and France are not forgetten of american cultured or germaned ones when something is wrong.... So long time ago.... I wonder if Jacques Chirac had read one paper of one researcher about DEPOLLUTION in the 70 or 80th when he said this. For the moment the mode is coming for bathing in lacs, étangs, everywere in the country.Not private one as you showed to us in America.. For the moment. Not yet the Seine. In France we have one SOCIOLOGUE, ,Edgar Morin: He wrote L'Air du Temps. Do you understand what i mean? The time for , how do you say it in English, que les choses se fassent. Donner du temps au temps. And to support that the result wouldn't be exactly the same as this one you were waiting: PICASSO: When i don't get red i take blue. Selled now in American supermarket like sockets.
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