I recently visited the European Commission website to review EU regulations and find some information relating to business contracts and competition. I landed on the Small Business Act page which was exactly one paragraph of non-information. I then clicked on the Link for Smart Regulation which directed me to another page with the message, "THIS PAGE DOES NOT EXIST". It tickled my funny bone a bit, I would venture to say that perhaps not only does the page not exist but smart regulation does not exist at all, especially when it comes to small businesses that are shackled by the large companies that bind them to agreements that lead to unfair pricing and terms that virtually insure the failure of the "little guys".
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"Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring--it was peace." – Milan Kundera
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I have just gone a week without having Internet access, access to my computer, and access to all my data. I was lost. Without data backups and Internet access it is virtually impossible to do anything. Backing up data should always be a priority but I didn't back up files regularly. I tried to install a new service pack and couldn't boot my computer. I tried to run system recovery, but my computer could find no restore point. I loaded Ubuntu and tried to see where my files were. I couldn't access my C drive but the D partition was still there (unfortunately it was all old stuff which I had backed up before). I tried to run system recovery from f4 and my computer froze completely, it could not see the c drive at all.
Living abroad, being an expat, it not always easy. Living in a foreign country can be difficult, there are language barriers, differences in customs, different laws, different lifestyles. I have lived abroad the better part of the last 15 years and still struggle daily with the trials and tribulations of being an expat.