Vodka Curry and Pizza

So was Sarko drunk at the G8 summit? Personally I don’t think he was, well no more than possessing massive power is intoxicating. I prefer a smiling clown sticking a fish in his ear than a ruthless manipulator or a alcoholic oaf (perm two from two for Bushky or Pubble).

I am often asked if I miss anything about England, I have thought about his a lot and never had an answer before, but now I know that there is one thing I miss, living in the South of France we cannot get a decent Indian meal - I don’t mean an authentic vegetarian dish from India - I mean a toe-curling curry from Southall or Bradford.

Only in the UK can you get a “real” Indian meal. We just got back from Agde from an Indian meal special - it was OK and the guy doing the cooking was from India - well he was from the UK actually - the meal was the best Indian I have had in France, but that is not saying a lot, unfortunately.

My week is blighted by the growing realisation that France has no talented Internet designers - plenty of people (actually anyone) can make a website, but none I have found have vision or any understand of what is happening - for months, actually since 2001 so for six years, I have been looking for a person, team, anybody, to help me develop some marketing sites - I have seen some of my ideas take wing in the USA and sell for squillions of dollars. Here in France I eat a miserable curry and I am grateful.

I am happy with a good quality of life and a super family in a great home in a wonderful part of our planet - but I am going nuts because no one can get to grips with some basic disciplines peppered with vision and effort. Perhaps for the same reason they cannot make a good vindaloo, they cannot create websites.

It seems to be a geeky thing - I am frustrated by an idiot who has already destroyed an excellent site belonging to a colleague, this buffoon knows a lot about a little and this makes him a menace as he grabs control of servers and makes life for us mere mortals miserable. His arrogant stupidity got the site banned from Google.

It is time the geeks were routed from their fetid nests, most of us need to realise that knowing how to write a program to turn on the television or download the latest episode of Southpark in not clever - it is to be pitied and not to be admired.

My theory is that the pizza culture has dumbed down initiative - the high carbohydrate content slugs the brain cells which need a curry stimulus - pizza is now the national food of France, closely followed by MacDonalds.

My plan is, that if geeks start eating curry, then the acute personal hygene problems which they already have will be made worse - this will mean we eventually cannot bear them in our midst and get rid of the frauds, making them work outside good rational society and perhaps they will do something useful for a change.