Cheese eating...   There are thing that I don't understand. Well I just might be stupid. It'salways a possibility.But I would like people to explain me why french bashing issuch a popular part of American culture. Or may be it is just JU culture, butfor what I can't see from newspaper and the violence of some reaction whenfrance refused to send troop among the coalition in Irak. Just let me list all the stereotypes I came accross : - coward - stupid - stinky - arrogant...

So Bush won... Like a lot of people on this planet, I was not very happy about that. I remember waking up when they were counting Ohio votes, Kerry was losing, and 8 hours after it was done, 4 more years. Good Job Georges. I had just met an englishman pro-bush the day before. He was a the first I have ever see. But we didn't talk about the election. From europe US presidential election look like a sport events or actually more like a big Wrestling events.  Spectacular, and shallo...

Published in the Independant the 03/09/04 (see detail at the bottom)   1 Number of Bush administration public statements on National security issued between 20 January 2001 and 10 September 2001 that mentioned al-Qa'ida. 104 Number of Bush administration public statements on National security and defence in the same period that mentioned Iraq or Saddam Hussein. 101 Number of Bush administration public statements on National security and defence in the same...

Hibernatus As I try to come out of several months of hibernation, I found out that I had become a level 2 Joe Users during my time out there. The least I can say is that it is quiet a surprise. May be the best way to become a power user is to blog elsewhere... Prelude If you have read my previous articles about JU ( Points systems, blogging and ants... and Points systems, blogging and ants...(2) ) you probably know that I have tried to understand and exp...

I'm not sure what I should say as I haven't been around for quiet a bit now. To my defence, I have been recently very busy - well I still am - so I couldn't spend time blogging. Particularly in english. I make the difference because I have been blogging regularly in French. Yes, I have been cheating JU. I know that I had to furfill some obligations, notably with SPM but I simply couldn't do it. All my excuses, my lord. But I have to retract my words. And I also have...

Points systems, blogging and ants... The ant and the cicada   a brief introduction... I have written recently an article tryingto demonstrate and explain the point system related to JU's blogsite, Pointssystems, blogging and ants... I was using a comparison with ants behavior tofind and gather food in the quickest way. I Theconclusion was that bloggsite points are revealingabout the quantity of visits generated by a blog, that this is an efficient systemto highligh...

New Page 1 Dear top 24 bloggers, I have written a sequel to a previous article "Points systems, blogging and ants... and why popularity stinks"which is focused on blogger's point systems. As a discussing base, I have usedthe following "personal data" of the first 25 bloggers: user points, #articles and # comments. It  consist of a small investigation through statisticalglasses and is by no mean a naming or mocking process .  However, as you may feel embarrassed to see you...

From un-American to anti-American It has probably come to the attention of a lot of people thatD. Rumsfeld has been in an uncomfortable position for the last few days. Under therecent pressure, he has almost acted in a decent way, and even issue severalapologies, although his resignation is still lost in the fog of war. As you might have guess, I am not a big fan of Rumsfeld, evenif I can appreciate his special and subtle sense of humor from time to time.Nevertheless, I was a bit s...

Points systems, blogging and ants... and why popularity stinks... For the last couple of months there have been a lot ofarticles about the fairness and the accuracy of the point systems,  somearticles were highlightinga few blogs  not fitting their criteria, others were pointing the artificial popularity due to externalvisitors. I would like to help the debate by proving the opposite.After all, you can always see a glass half empty or half full...and saying that the...

  I'm sorry to copy a title from Brad, but I was a bit outraged about hisarticle. (he is probably very happy about that...) Any people who believe in the power of justice and law would not allowhimself to have any deviation on torture because of their nationality. One of his argument is that abuse by US force is OK, it is just depending onyour angle. If your think that America is good for the world, so a little oftorture is good for the world. So I'm not American, I do think th...

New Page 1 A reason to fight for monarchy From an outside angle, I feel like American peopledon't know what it is to have a monarchy and the aristocracy that necessarily gowith it. I just can sympathize with that because French, like Germany, haven'tanymore any kind of significant royal family, not even for stamp illustrationpurpose. French particularly has develop highly skill to do real haircut... However, since I have been to England I started tounderstand the good side...

New Page 1 A reason to fight for monarchy From an outside angle, I feel like American peopledon't know what it is to have a monarchy and the aristocracy that necessarily gowith it. I just can sympathize with that because French, like Germany, haven'tanymore any kind of significant royal family, not even for stamp illustrationpurpose. French particularly has develop highly skill to do real haircut... However, since I have been to England I started tounderstand the good side...

New Page 1 I haven't been writing here for quiet a long time now,around one month and not for blogging. It is quiet a change compare to thealmost daily frequentation I had shown since December. I guess that after awhile the excitation is going down a bit, adding that I was really busy, thatI'm experiencing e-mule extensively and that I burnt my mother board, as aconsequence of pulling the donkey too much....  Not enough time and not enough brain to spare to write, even if I h...

You might know that the actors behind theSimpsons voices are fighting for more money with Fox channel. Reading thearticle, I learned that a Simpson movie was prepared by Matt Groening and histeam! So finally there will be a Simpson movie! I'm very excited about that,even if I'm dubious about the length. Can they do more than one hour of Simpson withoutbeing boring or out of touch? I don't know but as they manage to doalready 16 years of quality cartoon, so I'm quiet confident.  There is...

Gnocchi with a blue cheese sauce and gnocchi al forno Gnocchi with a blue cheese sauce and gnocchi al forno   Gnocchi is one of my favorite meal ever. It is damnsimple to make, but like all simple recipe, it needs some practice before reachingdecent quality.  The quality of the potatoes is fundamental. They need tobe old, because the older, the softer and thus the better. Old potatoes are softand just waiting to be mashed. The first step is to boil the potat...