Monthly Archives: September 2009

shake the asphodel – collect i…

shake the asphodel – collect its rancid pollen – then break my website

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Just found this site http://www.immobilier-danger.com/ with information on french property sales

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Bonjour Paris

A very good newsletter and valuable website for anyone thinking of visiting or living in Paris is

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Nanocrystalline titanium dioxide photoelectrodes

Titanium Dioxide – interesting stuff. Google tio2 and get a glimpse of what photovoltaic technology might be morphing into. I am spending a quiet Sunday thinking about this as I was shown some interesting technology last week which is making … Continue reading

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Enjoy Your Paris

Another service I found on my Facebook wall is EnjoYourParis – like TripBod , this gives you a person to person experience on your travels.EnjoYourParis takes this a stage further and gives you (the possibility of) an instant social life … Continue reading

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Kwiqq me a Tripbod

The Internet is fascinating – it is like watching a million years of evolution condensed into a month with a time-lapse camera. I have been writing on the Internet, one way or another, for over ten years – before broadband, … Continue reading

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Raisins to be Cheerful

My regular dog walk is alongside the river Thonge through vineyards – the dogs chase rabbits and hares and I see kingfishers (well one) – but for the past couple of months part of the pleasure has been discovering the … Continue reading

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Haiku on Wiring a House

Wire has its own rules We say it has its own mind This is our excuse

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My Personal Dream

It is over ten years since I started writing posts on my Internet sites (they were not called blogs then) and nearly a quarter of a century since I first encountered the very first glimmer of the Internet and understood … Continue reading

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Trafficator

A word getting lost in the mists of time – I was fascinated to learn the shape of the Trafficator arm is closely based upon the shape of the semaphore signal arm used by the Royal Bavarian Railway beginning in … Continue reading

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