The ancient Egypt offered good career opportunities for MSc's, and even for civil engineers, at their monumental enterprises. If you insisted in staying here in the North, the best you could hope for was designing a stone axe or a dolmen (not to be confused with kåldolmen). In Egypt, even classy nightly entertainment at the after work clubs was offered, as this video clip shows:

"A multi-decade high in French unemployment and output slumps in Italy and Germany have raised the odds that some Euro politicians will make the currency their prime target for scapegoating." writes Jon Nadler of Kitco today. Yes, let's bring back the Swedish daler and Finnish mark!

Another new year, and no André Rieu this time, since no ZDF. But there is France 2.
Unlike France, the President of the Republic will hold her new year's speech tomorrow as usual.

In a city called Helsinki
Capital of icy Finland
Where the days are dark in winter
Where the nights are bright in summer
Where no mother's son drops litter
(Finns are very down on litter)

You never know what you will find when reading scientific papers. There is more here:

http://books.google.com/books?id=WMyTANSaI0wC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22Capital+of+icy+Finland%22#PPA241,M1

You might encounter deadly Finns in this country, especially if speaking Swedish in the wrong place. However, it is rather easy to be assimilated as this article in HS describes.

I have decided to make Nokia equipment my standard, notwithstanding that the once mighty Nokia has split into at least three different entities with different owners. Is there something wrong with conglomerates?
All my family's phones are now Nokia (E70, 6151 and 7650). I bought a new (old of course) car, a real Saab (before the model was replaced with an Opel in drag), with bad tyres that I soon replaced with a set of Nokian i 3. The winter tyres are not ripe for replacement yet, perhaps next year.
Today I mounted two Nokian Ultra Your 2 on my bicycle, replacing the original Golden Boy (cheap Korean brand) ones. Cycling will be more of a pleasure from now on.
Still, I'll have to get some Nokian Footwear. Stay tuned.

It is so nice to see that there are still parts of the world where MSc's still
look like MSc's and not like handymen. Try the "Up" link for more.