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My second-favorite computing company has made a graphic effort to remind us that today is the 14th of July, Bastille Day . Symbolically, thi...

Tour de France specialists had imagined that today's stage from Toulouse to Bagnères-de-Bigorre would be relatively uneventful, because...

It would be extraordinary, in many ways, if today's summit meeting organized by Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris were to be a prelude to succes...

As I predicted, right from the start, my neighbor Alison 's friendly little black Labrador named Pif has become a constant visitor at m...

Once upon time, the human phenomenon known as religion used to deal with gigantic fundamental interrogations such as the meaning of our exi...

This afternoon, I started to prepare this year's walnut wine. According to the traditional recipe for walnut wine, one should start to g...

In the cooking domain, I often become attached to a particular dish for a certain period of time, which means preparing it at a rate of once...

The recent behavior of former presidential candidate Ségolène Royal has been unexpected, indeed disturbing. First, when everybody was jubil...

Ever since arriving on the planet Earth and acquiring fuzzy means [which I didn't even have to pay for] of comprehending vaguely what se...

I came upon the stupid website mentioned in my previous post while I was searching for explanations concerning an exotic word: poliorcetic ....

Back in the days when I was working on the outskirts of Paris for the Ilog software company, my job consisted mainly of writing technical m...

The return journey in the TGV, with Sophia stretched out on the floor at my feet, was very comfortable. In France, the train is certainly a...

The latest scientific report on climate change in my native land, Australia, sounds grim. Concerning severe droughts and scorching temperatu...

Yesterday, we drove westward to visit Christine 's brother Lan Mafart at his seaside tavern named Caplan & Co near Lannion. [Click...

Nancy: I receive all your emails from Australia, but I can't send you emails from France, because your computer won't accept them. I...

The day after my arrival in Brittany, Christine took me to a magnificent 42-acre botanic garden near Tréguier named Kerdalo , created during...

Last night, Christine and I were enchanted by yet another superb documentary in the Ushuaïa Nature series by Nicolas Hulot ... whom I firs...

Quite late in the evening, Christine called me outside to observe this fantastic sunset. Back home in Choranche, the hour of the evening at ...

For the first time ever, I took the TGV [high-speed train] from Valence to Guingamp in Brittany, accompanied by Sophia . Christine picked u...

In my article of 3 January 2008 entitled Fragile existence [ display ] , I described a rock that had rolled down onto the road between Gamo...