Monthly Archives: April 2008

Eric Cantona – the actor

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Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Just thought I should drop a quick note to say how impressed I was with Monsieur Cantona’s performance in Papillon Noir last night. He was helped along, it has to be said, by a superb and surprising plot. All the same, not every karate-kicking footballer would have managed to get into character in quite the [...]


The trouble with working from home

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Tuesday, April 29, 2008

There are two ways of looking at working from home. Firstly, positively: You can manage your own time Spend more time with your family live anywhere in the world no commuting no dressing for work be your own boss Then negatively: You have to manage your own time you can’t get a moment’s peace from [...]


The best baguette in Strasbourg?

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Monday, April 21, 2008

I’ve been here long enough now to know a good ‘pain‘ when I touch/taste/chew one. Initially, way back in 2006, my talents could only (just about) distinguish a super-market stick from a bakers wand, and therefore not begrudge (too much) the additional 50 or so centimes that it would cost. Now however, having tried a [...]


Archives

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Monday, April 14, 2008

Just a quick note to say I have updated the archives page to a more user friendly layout; now you can browse historic articles by date and title. Take a look.


A little bit of politics

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Friday, April 11, 2008

There’s a large empty office building in Strasbourg that gets used, on average, about five days a month. I refer of course to the famous European Parliament building at Wacken, which has been the subject of much debate in recent years. “Why is it even there at all – when 99% of Eurocrats are in [...]


French TV moves forward, slowly

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Wednesday, April 9, 2008

French TV is still dragging it’s heels into the 21st century. A quick spot-check around the electrical retailers in France would reveal that buying a non-widescreen TV is now almost impossible. Ironic then that almost every TV channel still broadcasts exclusively in the old 3:4 format. This week saw the official launch of France 2′s [...]


Testimony by Carla Bruni’s husband

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Monday, April 7, 2008

My latest loo read lasted slightly longer than anticipated. ‘Testimony’ by Nicolas Sarkozy is the first political tome that I’ve dared read, and as I expected it was 211 pages of wasp-nest construction material. It will most likely therefore be the last ever political tome I ever dare read. In essence it’s a stream of [...]


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