this morning i received an invoice for our fixed telephone lines. the company is not supposed to bill us for this as our bookkeeping department is not in vienna but in nyon (switzerland).

i contacted my collegue nuno in switzerland via e-mail to check how to further treat this, or rather which one of us would deal with the company to clear things up ( Read more... )

i'm doing the language course "european portuguese A2" now (after having completed A1 and A1+ recently). last night was our second unit of that particular course. the minimum no. of people required for a course to actually be held is 3. the minimum no. of people required to hold a full course (i.e. 15 units in total) is 6 people. at last week's ( Read more... )

if anyone wishes to see more pictures from the xmassy trip to lisbon (verenka?), here's the slide show:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23489313@N00/show/

here's more: http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/02/12/portugal.abortion.ap/index.html

slightly under 60 % voted for a relexation of abortion laws in portugal. however, more than 50 % of registered voters would have to participate in portugal to make the ballot valid (turnout was appr. 44 %). apparently, josé socrates (prime minister) still wants ( Read more... )

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i know that my lisbon/portugal-pictures are already off the camera and on a cd-rom. the problem of course is that the cd-rom is still with my brother. but i can't be mad at him because he feels bad about it (apparently) and text massaged me saying that he is so busy at his job right now that he simply can't find the time to drop it off.....

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