Reflection of ways with a GPS logger

The last two days were a GPS log­ger run­ning on my iPho­ne. Yes­ter­day and today in the evening I’ve loo­ked the logs in Goog­le Earth and think that this was very useful. If they go through the ways you’­ve wal­ked all the day in the head and see at the same time a com­ple­te map from the envi­ron­ment, they get pro­ba­b­ly a bet­ter ori­en­ta­ti­on much faster.

I know for exam­p­le now exact­ly why I’ve get lost in the city yes­ter­day and would­n’t get lost any­mo­re. I can recom­mend GPS log­ger to get a bet­ter ori­en­ta­ti­on in unknown cities much faster.

A little gift for big, pitiful companies

I’ve seen now for the second times that a cus­to­mer did­n’t want coins as chan­ge. In Car­re­four!? Recei­ve the cas­hier here real­ly „tips” (?!) or are many peo­p­le here so… nai­ve and belie­ve that a big com­pa­ny as Car­re­four needs their litt­le chan­ge? Curious!

Update 21. Janu­ary 2011: I could noti­ce at the mean­while that the deal­ing with small chan­ge is rela­xed gene­ral­ly. But this works in the oppo­si­te way too: Recent­ly I paid 3,98€ with a 5€  note and recei­ved only 1€ as chan­ge, becau­se they does­n’t have many chan­ge. Two cus­to­mers befo­re me have over­paid too, but nobo­dy has dis­turb this. (And me neither. But I would think in Ger­ma­ny that this is strange…)

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Trash creates work

A moment ago I’ve tal­ked with one of my flat­ma­tes over the typi­cal ger­man phe­no­me­non of the sepa­ra­ti­on of was­te for recy­cling. In Madrid they throw near­ly all in one trash bin. Only for a few things such glass or bot­t­les does exist sepa­ra­te was­te containers.

He think that the sepa­ra­ti­on of was­te were espe­ci­al­ly in Madrid an important field of work for immi­grants and very poor peo­p­le. (Many immi­grants are living in Madrid, spe­ci­al­ly from South Ame­ri­ca. That’s why the local govern­ment did­n’t want to bring the peo­p­le to sepa­ra­ti­on of was­te, becau­se that would mean that many poor (and low-qua­li­fied) peo­p­le here did­n’t have work longer.

And it’s com­mon that that job mar­ket here did­n’t offers many oppor­tu­ni­ties for many peo­p­le becau­se the „cri­sis” (a word that I’ve heard here often yet). The unem­ploy­ment figu­res are twice tall as in Germany.

That’s also a way for crea­ting work. By that it comes to my mind that we have enough work. It’s all about the distribution.

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