I suppose you could say my blog is now officially launched. My first reference (fr) from a fellow blogger Rachid Jankari was published today (merci Rachid). I lived and worked in Morocco for over four years with a leading independent ISP, MTDS. During that time I travelled around the fascinating North African country, and was [...]

On August 6th, 1945 at around 8.15 Japan Standard Time, the first A-Bomb was detonated a few hundred metres above the town of Hiroshima. I’ve just finished watching this BBC documentary which was broadcast on French TV tonight, and I have been strongly affected by it. The day after tomorrow, it will be 60 years [...]

Back in 1999, I had a personal web site with a jokes section. It can still be seen over at archive.org. The jokes I collected for that site and a few others in a newer project – which never really existed publically on the web – are still around on my hard drive. The project [...]

Between feeding our friends’ cat – 5 minutes walk away – while they’re away and making sure I look after Yasmina properly it’s not easy to get much time to write. It was a difficult weekend, I was mostly at home alone cleaning the flat, shopping and the mundane routine stuff or at hospital visiting. [...]

I occasionally feel inspired enough (or silly enough) to run a psychological experiment at work. Everyone knows I’m pretty much bilingual (English/French) and they are often reluctant to speak to me in my native English. So I’ll speak English with a French accent, and I observe the difference. Once I start speaking in this way, [...]

It’s time to say goodbye to celluloid. Major blockbusters like Revenge of the Sith and Farenheit 9/11 have already been shot in digital and transferred to film for cinematic showing. As reported by the BBC, Hollywood studios are backing a new digital standard right through to the cinema screen, after making a deal on how [...]