Archive for April, 2008
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Eric Cantona - the actor
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 [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Life in Strasbourg by Bart
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
The trouble with working from home
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 your family
you can never plan a holiday
you have [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Life in Strasbourg by Bart
Monday, April 21st, 2008
The best baguette in Strasbourg?
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 [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in food by Bart
Monday, April 14th, 2008
Archives
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.
1 Comment » - Posted in Life in Strasbourg by Bart
Friday, April 11th, 2008
A little bit of politics
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 [...]
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
French TV moves forward, slowly
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 [...]
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
Testimony by Carla Bruni’s husband
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 [...]
