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Friday, July 30, 2004

I am all alone, so I have got in ten crates of beer, a permanant connection to all the porn channels and a huge plasma scree to watch them on, the girls from the brothel next door pop over for some English tea and sausage, so I should be in pigs heaven. But I am not! I miss you all! mwaaaaa
		from Jack 8:19 AM

Thursday, July 22, 2004

You are the Death card. Death is a stage in the cycle of life. Without death, there would be no room for new things to grow. When you receive the Death card in a tarot reading, fear not; Death is only an indication that transformation is about to occur. Death allows us all to evolve by removing that which is no longer needed. The end of one cycle makes way for a new one. Old behaviours and patterns which have tied us down are released. Death cleans house so that we don't have needless drains on our energy. In Death's ruthless destruction there lies compassion. Image from: Danielle Sylvie Taylor http://members.limitless.org/~morpheum/gallery.html Which Tarot Card Are You? brought to you by Quizilla no comment...
		from Jack 10:25 AM

Wednesday, July 21, 2004

You are the Universe card, sometimes called the World card. The Universe is the complete, perfect whole. The spiritual path has come to an end and enlightenment is reached. Events have reached completion. The different facets of your life are well-integrated and harmoniously balanced. This is an ideal state in which to rest and feel the true state of your vibrant physical being. Your creative potential is maximized and you have achieved goals that you have set for yourself in the past. After enjoying the pleasure of this state, a new cycle can begin with new challenges and triumphs that will keep you feeling alive and keep building on the foundations you have planted thus far. Image from The Stone Tarot deck. http://hometown.aol.com/newtarotdeck/ Which Tarot Card Are You? brought to you by Quizilla
		from Martin 9:34 PM

You are the Fool card. The Fool fearlessly begins the journey into the unknown. To do this, he does not regard the world he knows as firm and fixed. He has a seemingly reckless disregard for obstacles. In the Ryder-Waite deck, he is seen stepping off a cliff with his gaze on the sky, and a rainbow is there to catch him. In order to explore and expand, one must disregard convention and conformity. Those in the throes of convention look at the unconventional, non-conformist personality and think What a fool. They lack the point of view to understand The Fool's actions. But The Fool has roots in tradition as one who is closest to the spirit world. In many tribal cultures, those born with strange and unusual character traits were held in awe. Shamans were people who could see visions and go on journeys that we now label hallucinations and schizophrenia. Those with physical differences had experience and knowledge that the average person could not understand. The Fool is God. The number of the card is zero, which when drawn is a perfect circle. This circle represents both emptiness and infinity. The Fool is not shackled by mountains and valleys or by his physical body. He does not accept the appearance of cliff and air as being distinct or real. Image from: Mary DeLave http://www.marydelave.com/ Which Tarot Card Are You? brought to you by Quizilla
		from M'Zelle Jenny 7:11 PM

I've just made a screenshot of my Bloglines window where most of the sites (blog or not) I visit are listed (on the left). Each time someone posts a new blog or each time there's a change on a site, it's indicated here. The name of the blog/site turn bold and the number of new bloggies posted is indicated. Voilà, just to have a more concrete idea. (and on this blogline page, you've the most precious tool, the "notifier" that you can open all the time and which will warn you about new posts)
		from Candy Froggie 6:29 AM

Tuesday, July 20, 2004

The sorting hat says that I belong in Gryffindor! Said Gryffindor, "We'll teach all those with brave deeds to their name." Students of Gryffindor are typically brave, daring, and chivalrous. Famous members include Harry, Ron, Hermione, Albus Dumbledore (head of Hogwarts), and Minerva McGonagall (head of Gryffindor). Take the most scientific Harry Potter Quiz ever created and paste the most error-infested HTML code ever into your blog!
		from Martin 10:45 PM

I could not help adding another lil quizz before the hol's... I would have never thought I'd get this card here. Justice...it feels so hmmm straight! You are the Justice card. Justice preserves the harmony of the world. Working with opposite forces, Justice does not seek to criticize or condemn but rather to accept. The idea behind the card justice is that opposite forces are complementary; you could not have good without evil or light without darkness. Justice's position is to make sure that if a thing is out of balance, the weight of its energy is realigned with its opposite force. This card is also a card of humour, for it is in pointing out contrary positions that humour is often found. The attitude that is found in the humourous person, being able to shift perspective and flow with an instinct, is important in the maintenance of good balance. Image from The Blue Moon Tarot Deck. http://www.themysticeye.com/pics/bluemoon.htm Which Tarot Card Are You? brought to you by Quizilla
		from Candy Froggie 10:23 PM

(taking a deeeep breath) ok RSS.... -what is it? it is the same as your blog, only published in "machine readable form", so RSS readers like bloglines can fetch and interprete your content. - what is it good for? once you have "subscribed" to the RSS feed of a site in your RSS reader, you will get alerts when a new post has been published, together with the first few lines of the post. You can then determine if you want to go to the blog to read the whole post. Best is, you have the changes in ALL the blogs with RSS feeds in one single window! This works even with the comments, so you can use it to be alerted when someone has posted a new comment on your own or someone elses blog. - what must you do? In Blogger, go to settings > site feed and fill out the necessay things. just follow the example and call your feed atom.xml to keep things simple. Put in as the path to the site feed the same you use for your blog in HTML. Publish your blog anew. Now go to your homepage with your blog and replace the filename of your blog (might be something like blog.html?) by atom.xml or the name you gave your feed. You should now see a funny page with your posts... To see what it should look like, click on the orange "XML" button on the top left of the doghousenewz. Now you must tell people that you have a site feed. Put a link with the address of your RSS feed on your blog (like the XML button in the DHN). - how to subscribe in bloglines to a site feed? Look on the blogs you read regularly for a button "XML", "RSS" or a link "sitefeed". click on that link and if you see the funny page in XML, copy the address. In bloglines, there is a field on the bottom on the left "subscribe by URL" or soemthing like that. There you paste the address you just copied. That's it! To pubish a feed for the comments is a bit more difficult (but not much). You have to check with you comment system if they provide RSS (Haloscan does) and publish that address on your blog as well. If you use Blogger comments, I believe you can integrate the comments directly into your main sitefeed, but don't ask me how it works... Hope this helped -----> whoosh back to work ;-)
		from Martin 12:53 PM

Monday, July 19, 2004

Hufflepuff Rulez - yayyyyyyyyyy!!! hehehe Hufflepuff Said Hufflepuff, "I'll teach the lot, and treat them just the same." Hufflepuff students are friendly, fair-minded, modest, and hard-working. A well-known member was Cedric Digory, who represented Hogwarts in the most recent Triwizard Tournament. Okay....(taking a deeeep breath)......it's time for me to jump into the 21st Century - I'm gonna get me some of this RSS thingy. Ummmm...once I've worked out how to do it that is hehehe.
		from Ms Penny 1:53 PM

And what do you get ? Something unsightly !
		from M'Zelle Jenny 1:40 PM

Martin... Heeeeeeeeeelp! You gotta help me (your wife, remember! lol) to convince again the DHN gang to get a rss thread! It's getting a lil boring to click 10 times a day on a blog to see if there's a new post or not... when you can have your lil window warning you as soon as one of your buddies has posted a new bloggie!!! It's just that... in our modern times... beginning of 21st century, you just can't have a blog without a rss thread... it would be like burning wood to make your micro-oven work! :P
		from Candy Froggie 12:42 PM

Fookin quizz code! Anyway, last time I did the test, I belonged to Gryffindor, and now here I am, a bit less witty than ewwws others, but wiff a good heart! hehe... phewww The sorting hat says that I belong in Hufflepuff Said Hufflepuff : "I'll teach the lot, and treat them just the same" Hufflepuff students are friendly, fair-minded, modest, and hard-working. A well-known member was Cedric Digory, who represented Hogwarts in the most recent Triwizard Tournament.
		from Candy Froggie 12:27 PM

A new book is about to hit the UK with a rather wet sound... 'She comes first: The Thinking Man's Guide to Pleasuring a Woman' What he (the author Ian Kerner) is saying is that the tongue is mightier than the sword... so to speak! He says that men base much of their self-esteem on the value of their penis for stimulating female pleasure, and that viagra is the worst thing to happen to women for years. "just because a man can get an erection, it doesn't mean he knows what to do with it" He says it is simply amazing how many women between 25-35 years old, who have only ever had an orgasm through masterbation, never with a man - if men were having these problems, it would be all over the health pages" The focus is simple: oral sex makes women come, intercourse (for the most part) does not. So this book tells us (men) how to orally pleasure a woman, in step by step guides... I knew that battery powered love thingy would make us redundant... ok, step one...
		from Jack 11:59 AM

Okay, I must be bored 'cause I did the test thingy... I am in the Ravenclaw House it seems! score 77 Ravenclaw Said Ravenclaw, "We'll teach those whose intelligence is surest." Ravenclaw students tend to be clever, witty, intelligent, and knowledgeable. Notable residents include Cho Chang and Padma Patil (objects of Harry and Ron's affections), and Luna Lovegood (daughter of The Quibbler magazine's editor).
		from Jack 8:37 AM

For Potter fans : which House do you belong to ? Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff or Slytherin? The sorting hat tells me I belong in Ravenclaw. What about you ? Said Ravenclaw, "We'll teach those whose intelligence is surest." Ravenclaw students tend to be clever, witty, intelligent, and knowledgeable. Notable residents include Cho Chang and Padma Patil (objects of Harry and Ron's affections), and Luna Lovegood (daughter of The Quibbler magazine's editor). PS : I tried to copy and paste the result in Blogger, but it didn't work well and the text ended up outside the postcard... Why can't they leave well alone ? Instead of changing the way things work all the time !
		from M'Zelle Jenny 12:35 AM

Sunday, July 18, 2004

Brrrrrrr grrrrrrrr and drrrrrrrrrrr!!!

That's what I sound like when I'm freeezing my boobies off - it's turned rilly coolish here in the last day (I can't say cold because I *noeee* ewes all have much colder winters and my liddle 17C hardly rates as freezing hehe).

Anyhooo...for me it's cold so if I was gonna be going on a holiday (which I'm not - boooooo!) it would be somewhere where it was warm all day and night....like in the pic below. That's me on the right and GC on the left, soaking up some much welcomed warmth from the sun. Thank gawd for dreams huh? :-)

On the "Lurking Shampoo Bottle" front, I'm very proud of myself because I have managed to tame the monster of overabundance that was part of our Hair Goo world here at Chez Sillan a few months ago. I have it down to......(drum roll please Mr Music! ).....ONE bottle of shampoo and ONE bottle of Conditioner that suits all of us - two different kinds of Body Wash - ONE type of shaving cream and two razors that keep permenant residence on the wall!!!

Am I a legend or what!!! heheh

from Ms Penny

8:06 AM

Friday, July 16, 2004

(ignoring Candies post about holidays...have NO idea what she is talking about... grumph) Jenny mentioned sometime ago about The Magic Roundabout childrens animated shorts of years ago. Well, blow me down but on the beeb the other night a whole, hour long arts show was devoted to this subject! I also used to enjoy the antics of the charecters, but I never knew it was a French creation filmed in Paris! The voice of the narrator in England did much to make the show popular, and the narrator in France (not the same man) had a strong English accent that was an 'in-joke' joke on the part of the creators. They were many creative battles between the originator and the annimator, who left when the show left Paris to be filmed in the countryside. The annimator went on to become famous with many more shows in the same style as the MR.
		from Jack 11:00 AM

Thursday, July 15, 2004

okok, I wanna know every details about your lazy plans in the next weeks! Penny, I know it's not summer overthere but... do you get holidays at this time of the year? Jack, I know you have no idea about the true meaning of "holidays" but... at least what are your lazy plans for this summer time? We are off end of next week till about the 8th of august. Not LAZY holidays since we'll be working on the house! Anybody wanna join? hehe
		from Candy Froggie 9:50 PM

Monday, July 12, 2004

When looking for the sunny place in the UK I only found that today :-) If I am not totally wrong, the only place without clouds is sunny Ireland! It seems we share the same band of clouds, Jack...
		from Martin 8:34 PM

Come to sunny,warm England...
		from Jack 4:26 PM

Saturday, July 10, 2004

If your bored, go have a look at this site and watch a home movie about Darth Vader... not bad at all! http://atomfilms.shockwave.com/af/content/funkd okay..I admit it...I am bored... Here is a much more worthwhile place to go... the British Libray has a 'Virtual Library' that lets you research just about anything... http://www.bl.uk/collections/wider/vrlnew.html
		from Jack 3:42 PM

I have to add that there's also a soap (not a very photogenic one, so I left it out) and I also left out the hair conditioner, which sleeps in the sink cupboard... and two shower gels I bought yesterday... A perfumed shower gel is heavenly !
		from M'Zelle Jenny 9:39 AM

I have just posted a comment in my blog about you mad women and the insane proliferation of shampoo's in the bathroom... So, why not own up and post a picture of the hundreds of shampoo bottles that lurk around... here is mine.
		from Jack 9:35 AM

Friday, July 09, 2004

Friday afternoon... I am LESSIVED (lessive = washing powder), exhausted, unable to work at all... just able to type on my kboard and enjoy the most stoopid stuff the internet can offer (games, jokes, etc) :P I think Lola has done a good job using all my energy. I feel like an empty tank needing fuel (lol, rilly, I can't be poetic today). We've a busy weekend again, but a busy one in Paris which is kinda more relaxing. We also have some boring shopping to do (a bed for Lola) but I definatly won't enjoy the sales this month (we've just got a bill for water expenses -110 euros-... for the house in Bretagne, and we haven't used any water so far! SIGH! the pleasure of having 2 homes... twice more bills! Grmmmppphhhh) Anyway, just typing these words in this most comfortable place, with people I really appreciate a LOT around, feels wonderful. Soft music behind (dead can dance), a hot cawffee just near and Lola's sleeping. Almost paradise Thank ewwws*~~^* *
		from Candy Froggie 1:03 PM

Monday, July 05, 2004

Complaints in France about Harry Potter! Intellectual arguments in the tres serieux (sorry, no accents on my keyboard)Le Monde. Structualist and Post-Structuralist interpretations, complaining the books are anti-progressive and sexist, suffused with alter-mondialism. More complaints that many wicked characters in the books (Vol de mort) have French names! In this great debate, they are examining the political sub-text of the work in high Marxist-structuralist manner. This fantasy universe is a capitalist universe, stuffed with neo-liberal stereotypes, which caricature the excesses of the Anglo-Saxon model. Representatives of the Stae are lampooned or incompetent, Harry goes to a ‘private’ school whose ‘micro-society’ is a ‘pitiless jungle’ glorifying ‘individualism, excessive competition and a cult of violence. The books are an example of the totalitarian universe imagined by George Orwell come to life. A M.Yocaris states that “ Capitalism is now trying to shape, after its own taste, not only the real world, but the imaginary world of its consumer-citizens” Mme. Smadja, a philosophy teacher, suggests that the text is in fact a “ferocious critique of consumer society and the world of free enterprise”. Harry shows creditable concern for the ‘house elves’ the servants of the magical world who are mostly content with their lot. This is a pertinent critique of globalisation as poor countries are so blinded and attracted by the system, which exploits them, that they have no desire to revolt against it. And I thought this was a kids book and have not read it! What do you think then?
		from Jack 10:17 AM

Thursday, July 01, 2004

Hi guys and girls :-) Been a long time but I'm finally on hols ! Rather comatose at the moment, but I still took the Monty Python test, and here's what I got: Well, u-- um, can we come up and have a look? What Monty Python Character are you? brought to you by Quizilla Anyone want to go on a quest with me? Just let's not go to Camelot, it is a silly place...
		from Alain 6:54 PM

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