Bitterjug’s blog

Franck took this. He took it with his mobile-phone and sent it to me with Bluetooth. I think it’s jolly clever.
 The original image was 1024×1280 resolution and its quite sharp, not bad for a telephone. Oh he just did it again. They pop up on my computer now without me having to do anything.

Ok the […]

The Free.fr engineer came last Friday to solve the problem of my ADSL. I wanted to be sure I wouldn’t have to pay 60 Euros for them not being able to find me at home so I got a colleague to call the locksmiths and ask them to change my name on the electric entry-phone: […]

and I’ve been using the rediculous situation with my home Internet connection as an excuse. But this weekend I had a play with The Gimp, just for fun and did this one. It breaks the house stle by having different colours, but it’s such a nice sunset (thanks Jan). I wanted to make the little […]

Here’s the shrine from the Buddhist house where we were last weekend.

Here we are with the others in front of this thing what we made on sunday by glueing things to a large piece of paper. I’m still not sure why we did it, but it was fun; perhaps that was the reason. That and, […]

That’s waht Jim said ADSL stands for. My dictionary says:
Apocryphal:

Not Canonical. Hence: Of doubtful authority; equivocal; mythic; fictitious; spurious; false.

We’re talking about my broadband connection.
“Oh, what broadband?”, I hear you ask.
Me too.
Free.fr. It’s a fantastic deal: in the original spirit of Digital Subscriber Line, instead of running Internet services on the back of my phone […]

Namu Amida Bu
In a village, in the English county of Leicestershire (pronounced “less-t’share” ), live a community of Buddhists. Known to the villagers as The Red People on account of the colour of their apparel, these are the community of Amida Buddha; last weekend Nic and I visited them.
I was mistaken for a Buddhist. Easy […]

Literally! Went to Southampton airport yesterday at the appointed time and couldn’t see the raod markings on the runway from the 1st floor window. Those little ‘planes, I’m told, don’t have the necessary equipment (fog lamps?) to land under such conditions. I was cancelled. Over fifty quid on train fares and several hours later I […]