In thirteen years from now, with a budget of at least US$108 billion, NASA plans to once again put a man on the moon. In fact not one, but four at a time. Perhaps even a woman this time . The major difference in the new moon launch plan - and something no doubt […]

The dames over at I talk too much review blogs. I stood up to be counted and sent this site address over to find out what they might think. My new layout came out OK, but the rest just wasn’t up to scratch.
The layout of this page is neat and easy to navigate, but it […]

I was chatting the other day with the owner of this site : When Tara Met Blog. I mentioned that the sidebar wasn’t particularly easy to read because the background of cocktail glasses with red liquid inside tended to obscure the black text and links. Since Tara told me that she didn’t have full control […]

There’s a nice advert on French TV at the moment for fruit yoghurt. At least, nice in artistic terms. They’ve clearly studied their target market - young children - and they’re advertising to them. What is exceptionally clever is the way they’re also targetting parents with a scary statistic.
“9 out of 10 French children don’t […]

There are a couple of pages in my sidebar over to the right that I’m hoping to develop.
First of all, the Jokes Database : lots of funny jokes in a number of categories. Have a read through and let me know if you have any better ones. A lot of people pass through here […]

Sarah in Tampa, a blogger and sysadmin for a small business, probably knows enough about technology to live happily with her PC. When it came to getting some Madonna tunes she purchased from buy.com onto her iPod she was bitten by misguided DRM technology which is there ostensibly to prevent copyright violation. She had to […]

Who would have thought, 18 years ago when I last witnessed the England cricket team win the Ashes, that I would wait so long to see it happen again. I’d not have believed it if I had known at the time that I would be following the next winning series living in France, listening over […]

Driving around Paris. Initially, a very scary experience because if you’ve driven in England you’re not prepared. Traffic lights are not opposite the junction, but right next to it. Road signs point out places that are close by : rarely road names or places further away that you actually want to get to. Inside Paris […]