Go buy stuff now!
You might have noticed that the euro hasn’t performed too badly over the last two years. After dropping below a meagre $0.85 in 2001, it’s now well beyond $1.2. This isn’t exactly a great revelation, but having purchased a bunch of stuff stateside recently really drove home the point: go buy stuff now! Even apple, historically slow in adapting its prices to currency changes, lowered european prices across the line in early jan. 05.
The current eur-usd exchange rate might hurt our economy badly, but being a lowly parasitic student i see no wrong in taking advantage of it as long as it lasts. As for material goods, shipping & customs can add a hefty surcharge, but then there’s a lot of stuff which is hard to come by on this side of the atlantic, so better buy now than never. Of course you can always hope for a better bang for your eurobuck, but now definitely isn’t the worst time for purchasing this software license you’ve been holding off on.