Bitterjug’s blog

Hey, look what I did this weekend!

(These images link to my flickr page where there are more pics from my gliding trip)
My colleague helps run l’Aéroclub de Rennes-Ille-et-Vilaine. He asked me, on Friday, if I would be around at the weekend and if I fancied a flight in a glider; the club had an […]

This has been a week of documentaries for me. I watched The Corporation, which I have been meaning to see for ages and then this evening, because I could, and instead of going dancing, I watched An Inconvenient Truth, I’m still crying.

I’m aware that movies are a very emotional form of communication and that […]

It was the bloody caterpillars!
Recently I had a nasty rash followed by a fever, coughing and breathing problems, all of which I attributed to some caterpillars whom I’d met at at the Crep Swing Festival. Some people laughed, some even satirised; Nic’s mum painted this:

But it was also Nic’s mum and dad who found an […]

I just upgraded the RAM in my laptop. I had to trawl the web to find some instructions; there weren’t any in the manual. So for anyone else out there who has a Medion Akoya LS, SIM 2010 or the equivalent MSI Megabook S260 or any of its derivatives, here is how I did it. […]

How cool is this: I just bought a new webcam, from the second-hand shop near my home, on the way home from work. Brought it home, plugged it into this computer and it worked immediately: no need to install drivers or configure anything, just started the software and there I was smiling back at me […]

I was taking this photo this evening on my way home from dancing at L’Haricot Rouge in Rennes. The dancing had ebbed a bit and I had been sitting with Nicolas and Matilde and some of their friends playing a hand-slapping game to a song about an elephant balancing on a spiders web (which I […]