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History of Religion in 90 seconds
A most amazing dynamic map showing the spread of major religions over past 5000 years in 90secs of video . its interesting to see how religions always appear to start at the fringe of an existing religions zone of influence. Archived comments These comments are preserved from the original Blogger page. Only the times shown…
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Self Charging Smoke Alarm
Here is a really neat product:-“Never worry about changing batteries again. This unique smoke detector screws into any ceiling light fixture and operates off your home electricity. Reinstall the light bulb into the alarm, and now you’ve got a light source and smoke alarm in one! Recharges itself every time you turn the light on.”…
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Good news day.
Today French Telecom finally fixed my line in the Les Gets exchange. So after around 20 days, endless phone calls and employing the services of Bernard at Kankoo Informatique in Morzine to pester France Telecom into submission I now have a 1MB ADSL line working in the apartment. And more good news – the snow…
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Rain rain go away….
Another foul day here in Les Gets. Even Avoriaz is now suffering with rain and wind at the tops. Here is the view at the top of the Telecabine Ardent at 1510 metres. Love the carpet of straw to stop you slipping on the ice. Snow now predicted in Les Gets next Tuesday and Wednesday.…
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French Connection
Here I am in France at my apartment in Les Gets 74260. Wanadoo aka Orange have been charging me 24.90 Euro a month for a 1MB connection. However, as you can see there is a missing light on my router modem. Yes that’s right there is no ADSL on the line. Trying to contact their…
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Friends are we.
Here is a great piccy of Stan and I. We became friends in infant school at Creswell in 1951. Stan was my protector from all those playground bullies (well he is 6 months older than me which at 60 is nothing but at 5 is like a lot!!). We shared a huge number of experiences…
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Les Gets Estate Agency survey
Decided to take a break from the iceboarding today and do a little survey of all the estate agents, with high street offices, here in Les Gets (74260) France. I found 10 unique agents in 11 locations. Here are snaps with their phone numbers and website links. Click the agency name or image to access…
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Snow in Les Gets? Must be last year!
Here is a great photo taken outside my apartment in Les Gets in March 2006. (Thanks Kevin & Louise) Currently the same view is green grass with not a speck of snow. Please don’t laugh, tonight we are promised 1/2 inch of snow at the mid station 🙁 However, according to Jean-Michel at The Boomerang…
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GPS walking errors
As a little experiment I set myself a little walking route around the back of the apartment on the slopes of Mont Chery and then uploaded it to the GPS. I then tried following the route, with no map, just using the GPS. When I returned I downloaded where I had walked. The image shows…
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A lovely of Ellee’s
My star blogging protege Ellee is really riding high. Here are some comments culled from the internet today:- Paul Newman 43 year old Islington resident and London Conservative Mayor hopeful writes his thoughts and says:- 4 Ellee- I sometimes find Elee a bit alarmingly left wing…well compared to me anyway!! . She does like her…