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Sunday, April 5, 2009

Spring parade

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Once again, the village of St-Jean-en-Royans has chosen a queen and two princesses for the annual spring parade. The weather was sunny, and ...
Thursday, April 2, 2009

Man in charge of getting things back on track

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Today, the G20 leaders, assembled in London, decided to enable the International Monetary Fund to distribute an astronomical amount of mone...

Rural day

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One of the joys of living in the country is that, when you wake up in the morning, you never know what kinds of situations you might find yo...

Steel, nutwood and stone

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I've put a protective coat of anti-rust product on the steel carcass of my recently-constructed iDesk, and polished the walnut slabs wit...

Sustainable symbols

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In France, it's fitting that the ministry of Jean-louis Borloo , which promotes wind energy, should have a long-winded name: Ecology, E...
Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Sarkozy insists upon results in London

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Nicolas Sarkozy has made it perfectly clear that, if the outcome of London's G20 summit is not acceptable, he will simply get up and le...
Sunday, March 29, 2009

Our daily bread

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For many months now, I've got into the habit of using constantly the same fixed menu for my bread machine. The local supermarket sells a...
Saturday, March 28, 2009

Donkeys and dog dishes

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Shortly before the death of my billy-goat Gavroche (from causes that still remain a mystery), I had bought him a big bag of goat food. A fo...
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Dédé back on the road

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A few days ago, I was happily surprised to find that my neighbor Dédé had strolled up to Gamone on foot, like at old times. With his knee p...
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Four new blogs

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For several reasons (both communicational and technical), I've decided to attach blogs to four of my existing websites. These new blogs ...

Steelnut desks for computer users

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Click the image on the left to see a larger version of the Steelnut ad. I'm proud of my iDesk line of Steelnut furniture, "design...
Friday, March 27, 2009

Miraculous viruses

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An ordinary Christian believes in God. But the thing that characterizes a true Man of God is his belief in miracles. The bishop of Orléans, ...

Irish songs

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The title I chose for my maternal genealogy notes is A Little Bit of Irish . This is in fact the title of a sentimental Irish song that I us...
Thursday, March 26, 2009

What happened next?

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We human beings are naturally inquisitive, even when we're not directly concerned by the events we're observing. Haven't you eve...
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Room with a view

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On certain occasions, in unexpected situations, Google's street-view gadget (mentioned in my previous post) is capable of rising to phot...
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Street view

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Over the last couple of days, I've started work on another chapter of my maternal genealogy, concerning ancestors from Ireland. In fact,...
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Monday, March 23, 2009

Familiar visitor

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Look who raced madly into the yard at Gamone this afternoon for a lightning get-together with his old sparring partner Sophia . It was sever...
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009

On God's wavelength

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The man in white often gets things wrong. Talk about less than perfect infallibility, the descendant of Saint Peter screws up, in one way or...
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Friday, March 13, 2009

Suppressing a right might be wrong

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In an attempt to eliminate the illegal downloading of multimedia products, French minister Christine Albanel is introducing a law that migh...
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William Skyvington
Gamone, Choranche, France
After working in various computing jobs, I retired to an old farm property in the Vercors mountain range, on the edge of the French Alps, where I spend my time writing, playing with the Internet and looking out upon the slopes in the company of my dog Fitzroy, admiring wonders created by the Big Bang and Evolution.
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