Mobile blogging

I attempted to write a blog post on my mobile phone to see how easy it would be but I was unfortunately unsuccessful. The phone browser closed itself when I tried to log in. I don't know what the problem is but my phone browser has been closing itself more often lately than when I first got the phone. Or it could just be my imagination.
Either way, I'll try again to post from my phone, just for the novelty value, but when it's not so late and I'm not so tired.

That buzz

I had barely started to commence the preparations required in order to start shaving when I heard a horrible noise in the bathroom. The unmistakable buzzing sound that can only mean one thing: Mosquito. I decided that I had to hunt down and destroy this foul creature because I could get on with things because it would annoy me, probably try to steal my blood, and continue making its special buzz, which was amplified by the tiles in the bathroom. I started following the sound as it whizzed past my head, no doubt on its way to feast on my delicious blood. On the second pass, I turned around to face the sound, and hopefully the miniature vampire itself, when the buzzing instantly stopped. I thought, from the sound of the buzz before it was abruptly halted, that the mozzie must be rather close to me, or on my skin somewhere; landing on me would have accounted for the sudden break in the sound. I looked in the mirror to try and find it, only to spot it, not quite on my face but very very near. The stupid creature had become stuck in the shaving foam that I had recently applied. It was then a simple matter of picking it up, killing it, and sending it on its way to a watery grave.

Trois Soeurcières

Je viens de finir à lire Trois Soeurcières (Des Annales Du Disque-Monde)*, qui était originalement écrit en anglais par Terry Pratchett et traduit en français par Patrick Couton, qui doit être un bon traducteur parce qu'il a obtenu un prix pour ses traductions des annales du disque-monde. J'avait déjà lu la version anglaise il y a quelques ans avant commencer à lire la version française, donc je connaissais assez bien l'histoire pour savoir si j'ai bien compris le sens en français et la version anglaise appartient à moi aussi, donc je pouvais, de temps en temps, la lire pour verifier si j'avais raison. En anglais, c'était la deuxième histoire des annales du Disque-Monde que j'ai lu, la première c'était Mortimer. Je suis content que c'était une bonne traduction parce qu'on m'a dit que les traductions en allemand ne sont pas au même niveau.
Et maitenant, il faut que je décide quelle histoire sera la prochaine.


* C'est Wyrd Sisters (a Discworld Novel) en anglais.

Yes, I'm still here and Browsers

I know it's been ages since my last post, but I've been either busy or not near an internet connection.
My last post was last year! Egads!
So, Happy New Year to all.

I don't really have much of a reason to write other than a prompt from a friend reminding me that my blog still existed and therefore I should consider publishing something.

In my quest to find a browser that I like, I've tried Mozilla Firefox, Opera and Google Chrome, and at the moment I'm using Chrome. I think I'll stick with it for a while because as yet I've only discovered one thing that it has issues with, and that issue, when it pops up, is usually easily resolved. I liked the layout of Opera though, and in some ways it's a shame that Opera wasn't suitable for a lot of things, especially facebook pages and google wave. Before this experiment with different browsers, I was a happy Firefox user, but over time, it seemed to show more and more problems and develop issues with more pages.

Xmas

It's Christmas today, so Merry Christmas everyone!

Merry Christmas!
Joyeux Noël!
Wesołych Świąt Bożego Narodzenia!
Feliz Navidad!
Feliz Natal!
Buon Natale!
Froche Weinachten!
And other languages too!

Mon cou

J'ai mal au cou. Je pense que je dormais bizzarement (oui, avec 2 z's - très bizarre). Je me dis, dans la salle de bain ce matin, en français, que j'avais mal au cou et que c'est probable que j'ai fait quelque chose bizarre avec mon cou, et j'ai remarqué qu'il y a deux mots en français qui sont presque même, surtout pour moi (n'oubliez pas que je le trouve difficile de differentier entre 'dessus' et 'dessous'). Cou et cul. Donc, quand j'ai pensé que j'ai fait quelque chose avec mon cou....

Tapeworms

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Hello Opera

I've been using Opera for about an hour now because I got fed up with Firefox's instability issues and I can't bring myself to use IE because I still have a soul. I like Opera so far; the speed dial thing is a good idea, and it seems a lot faster and more stable than FF. I still have the issues with typing that I'm sure I've complained about before, but that's a computer issue and not a browser problem (which I know because it happens in all programs, even notepad). The pages in Opera don't stall and pause while trying to scroll down through them and they scroll much faster too.
I haven't noticed too many other differences, but overall I'm happy with Opera so far.
It's a shame that it has come to this with Firefox because I still like it and its concept.

Ten Weekend/Ce Week End

Jadę na plaże. Lubię bardzo jechać na plaże i jadę do Noosy, i myślę że Noosa jest najlepsza plaża w Australii. Będę mieszkać w mieszkaniu mojej matka, więc ja wiem dobrze gdzie muszę jechać bo byłem tamte duży razy. Jadę na plaże z K'ą, z I'ą, z R'ą, i może z N'em i z K'em, ale nie wiem teraz jeśli K i N jadą też z nas. R musi mi mówić.

Je vais à la plage. J'aime bien aller à la plage et je vais à Noosa, qui est ma plage préférée en Australie. Je resterai dans l'appartement de ma mère, donc je sais bien où je dois aller parce que j'y suis allé plusiers fois. J'y vais avec K, I, R et peut-être avec N et K, mais maintenant je ne sais pas si N et K y vont avec nous. R doit me dire.

X-wing en tickets de métro

This is a great use for some used Parisian metro tickets. I assume it'd work for others too, as I'm pretty sure the Strasbourg tickets were the same dimensions. I used a Navigo, but I had enough visitors who used many many single tickets that I could have had an entire squadron!