I have been blogging lite of late, mainly due to work, which is busy. As you may have seen, SAP put out a good Fourth Quarter 2009, and my feeling is that the market is coming back.
I went to Germany, to Walldorf, to talk to a customer, and made the 1000 Km round trip on one tank of Diesel. I used to have a petrol Audi A6, and it would give me about 500 or do Km per tankful. I sold that when I joined SAP, and got a staff car, as it were, another... Audi A6, but this time a Diesel.
I thought, bah, Diesel, noisy, slow, etc. Turns out that they fixed that since I last drove one in the 1980's. Driving a steady 120 km/h, even on the Autobahn, and using cruise control which seems to be very effective in controlling not only speed, but imposing strict fuel discipline, by not "hunting" around the speed as a human does.
So I got 1000+ Km out of one tank of fuel, which is nothing short of amazing for a big comfortable car.
The other thing is what is wrong with the bridges over the A5 in Germany? They are tearing down at least three of them in a highly delicate "don't drop the bridge on the road when demolishing it, and then build a new one in the place" type operation. Must be some kind of stimulus thing?
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