Antipodes

I have fun with my marvelous bread machine. Making exotic bread falls into the category of creative art. For example, on Saturday afternoon,...

When I was a child aged ten or eleven, one of the craziest things I ever did was to play around with the production of gunpowder. I still re...

Like many of my fellow citizens [that's the first time since my naturalization I've ever used explicitly such a phrase], I watched w...

I've often noticed that Sophia is not interested in strawberries. She doesn't seem to see their red color and, when I put a few str...

The tiny village of Choranche is located about 3 km down from Gamone. I say "down from", but the difference in altitude between t...

Back in the early '80s [before the existence of the Internet], I succeeded in finding this photo of the steamship Marathon , which took ...

My article of 25 December 2006 entitled The meaning of life [ display ] was designed deliberately to be misunderstood. All I really wanted...

In my articles of 30 December 2006 entitled My daughter at Gamone [ display ] and 15 January 2007 entitled Show me your machines [ displa...

Way back in 1984, I wrote a book about the Macintosh, when this machine was as little known as the Internet concept. But it would be wrong t...

It's great that Barack Obama can now, at last, get to grips with his true opponent: John McCain . However, the time lost in wrangling w...

Over the last year or so, there has been some discussion about the claim that the hang glider was invented by John Dickenson in Grafton, bu...

The art of producing fake photos used to be practiced primarily, and more or less expertly, by tyrants such as Joseph Stalin [1879-1953], w...

In the latest issue of my favorite magazine, Scientific American , there's a brilliant one-page article by a New York freelance writer n...

French researchers in genealogy or local history inevitably run into a quaint but annoying thing (little known outside France) called the Re...

People at Google must be aficionados of the Spanish painter Diego Velázquez [1599-1660], because they've celebrated his birthday by cre...

Julie , a kinesiologist at the place in Chatte that I've been attending twice a week for the last two months, happens to be a former jun...

Once again, I took the train to spend the day in Grenoble at the Archives départementales de l'Isère : a friendly and efficient patrimon...

Yesterday, for the second time in a week, I caught the inter-city train from St-Marcellin to Grenoble in order to spend time exploring the a...

Without Yves Saint Laurent , France is a little more naked than usual. Talking of nakedness, recall the magnificent statement of this gay gu...

This nicely-dressed clean-shaven 51-year-old Aussie guy is Mark Standen . Yesterday, in the fight against organized crime, he was Australia...