Putting the final touches on the commercial side of DIY Expat this weekend, I managed to unwittingly take everything offline for 36 hours with a badly configured access file. Ah fun fun.
Speaking of fun, Nicholas Sarkozy has won the presidential elections in France. Sarkozy pushed through immigration reforms which favor talented non-EU citizens, and one of his electoral promises is to lower taxes.
Definitely keep an eye on the electoral coverage there if you're thinking of movig to Europe.
The French paper Canard Echaine (cartoon above) makes him (the new French president) look a bit like Bat Boy of Weekly World News fame.
