Re: Off-topic Was: new website location

[Graham Percival]

On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 10:19:36PM +0100, Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> Quoting Graham Percival <address@hidden>:
>
>> The spanish word for "download" is "descartes" ?  Weird, in
>> english that's the name of a famous philosopher.
>
> Normally, I'm proud to be Swedish, but not when it comes to Descartes.
> One of the sadest Swedish contributions to the history of science, is  
> that Descartes was invited to Stockholm by the Queen Christina, soon  
> caught a cold and died from pneumonia.

I wouldn't say that's sad -- he was being honored by royalty!
Illness can happen anywhere, especially back then.  I mean, it's
not like she deliberately housed him in a drafty and damp room in
her castle, right?  :)

We should probably take this to the devel-chat list.

Cheers,
- Graham