Etienne en video
Published on June 9th, 2008Comments (6)
Deux petites video recentes d’Etienne.
Read moreWeekend a Brisy
Published on June 2nd, 2008Comments (4)
Apres 4 mois “off-line” mon blog revient avec quelques photos de notre weekend a Brisbane. Weekend passe en tres bonne compagnie puisque nous avions ete gentiment invites chez Stephanie et Young (ou est-ce qu’on s’est invite? - je me souviens plus). Ce fut aussi l’occasion de rencontrer leur petit tresor Ai Vy ainsi que de [...]
Read moreAustralian Open 2008
Published on January 13th, 2008Comments (1)
Demain, comme chaque annee debutera le Australian Open de tennis edition 2008. La France est le pays qui, avec 29 joueurs, presente le contingent le plus important - esperons que cette equipe brillera par ses performances.
Quelques photos des matchs de qualification:
Rencontre avec Milie
Published on January 10th, 2008Comments (5)
Grace a internet il arrive parfois que l’on ait la chance de faire la connaissance ‘virtuelle’ de personnes bien sympathiques…c’est encore mieux lorsqu’on les rencontre! Et bien voila, c’est chose faite avec Milie.
Milie de France To Australia a profite d’un sejour avec son autre moitie a Melbourne pour venir nous rendre visite. Pour etre [...]
AFL footy final @ Steve’s
Published on September 30th, 2007Comments (0)
Thanks to Steve for organising.
Read moreAnother message in a bottle
Published on July 30th, 2007Comments (8)
Cliquez pour agrandir - Click for larger picture.
J’ai encore retrouve une autre photo du Lycee (6eme je crois). Si vous vous y reconnaissez (ou si vous reconnaissez quelqu’un), merci de laisser un commentaire ici, avec mon autre bouteille (afin de centraliser tous les commentaires). Merci. Si vous etes timides et n’osez pas laisser un [...]
Bastille Day weekend
Published on July 16th, 2007Comments (3)
Friday the 13th - that’s a bad start…Friday night, in very good company we went to French Corner, a French restaurant in Highett. Although the age gave it a good review, I can’t stop thinking that the reviewer and I did not go to the same restaurant. We had the “Bastille Day” menu. At 95$ [...]
Read moreDites moi que cette video ne vous donne pas des frissons
Published on July 11th, 2007Comments (1)
Une petite gamine arrive a faire fondre l’iceberg Simon Cowell…cela dit, moi aussi.
Edit:
De fil en aiguille je suis tombe sur ce clip issu de la meme competition (Britain’s got talent). J’ai d’abord ete attire par le titre, Nessun Dorma (tire du sublime opera Turandot de Puccini) que j’adore. Pour ceux qui connaissent, il faut du [...]
To buy or not to buy a Honda! That is la question.
Published on July 5th, 2007Comments (5)
Acheter une Honda, ou pas, telle est la question que nous nous posons. Avec l’arrivee du petit prevue pour octobre, il est temps de songer a changer notre charette. Nous allons devoir nous separer de notre petit RAV4 2 portes et prendre quelque chose de plus grand. Nous avons donc aujourd’hui ete faire un tour [...]
Read moreDELLvil m’a enfin livre
Published on June 29th, 2007Comments (4)
Tout est dans le titre DELLvil (DELL + Devil - le diable) m’a enfin livre. Apres plus d’un mois d’attente, il etait temps!
Commentaires audio (clique sur la fleche grise):
Prête-moi ta main (I do)
Published on June 19th, 2007Comments (0)
En ce moment on se fait une veritable cure de films francais. Dernier en date, Prête-moi ta main (”I do” en english) avec Alain Chabat et Charlotte Gainsbourg. Une bonne surprise. Pour planter le decors, Luis, 43 ans, est celibataire et heureux de l’etre. Sa mere et ses soeurs le sont nettement mois. Elles decident [...]
Read moreEntendu en Australie
Published on June 1st, 2007Comments (0)
Sophia Loren est en ce moment de passage a Sydney pour le lancement du festival du film Italien et a participe a un entretien avec la presse locale. Un journaliste Australien lui a serieusement pose la question: en tant que grande star du cinema, vous arrive t’il de peter? Tres classe, non!
MAJ:
Un lien vers le [...]
Wilsons Promontory
Published on April 30th, 2007Comments (6)
La semaine derniere l’Australie fetait ANZAC day. Etant donne que ce jour tombait un mercredi, nous avions decide de jouer les prolongations et faire un viaduc pour en fait prendre 5 jours de conges. Au debut nous avions prevu de partir avec Dung et Stephanie dans les Whitsundays. Malheureusement, suite a quelques depenses importantes passees [...]
Read moreLa vraie Segolene
Published on February 5th, 2007Comments (0)
La vraie Ségolène
C’est pas gagné!
Federer - Australian Open 2007
Published on January 24th, 2007Comments (1)
Federer/Courrier - Australian Open 2007, originally uploaded by renet@web.
Read moreLove thy neighbour…not
Published on January 20th, 2007Comments (6)
Christmas came early for me this year. On the 18th Dec. I was just on my way out to work when I noticed a piece of paper had been slipped under my door - what’s this I thought? Well as it turns out it wasn’t a nice neighbourly Christmas card but a letter of complaint. [...]
Read moreAustralian open 2007
Published on January 14th, 2007Comments (2)
Hantuchova - Australian open 2007, originally uploaded by renet@web.
Now that the qualifying rounds are over, the thick of the action will once again begin tomorrow at 10am. The Australian Open 2007 will run for the next two weeks right here in Melbourne.
Read moreFirst parking ticket
Published on September 4th, 2006Comments (2)
After almost two years in Oz, I got my first parking ticket today - I almost got a heart attack when I saw the amount of the fine - $107 !!(approx. 65 Euros - even organised crime is not that greedy). The moron that gave me the ticket must have been hiding waiting for [...]
Read moreAre you anal?
Published on September 2nd, 2006Comments (1)
Are you anal? Now, when I say anal, I’m not referring to the bodily orifice - so if you came here looking for a sex related post, apologies (though my stats package will forever love you). No, when I say anal I mean ‘being anal’ the behaviour - being detail oriented borderline with [...]
Read moreSemaine difficile !
Published on August 27th, 2006Comments (2)
Une semaine difficile vient de passer. Pour la premiere fois depuis bien longtemps j’ai ete occupe toute la semaine - 5 jours de travail, 3 clients et la semaine prochaine sera identique. Dure la vie de consultant!
Read moreThe new Canon EOS 400D
Published on August 26th, 2006Comments (0)
Canon will shortly be releasing (in Australia) a replacement for the popular EOS350D - I think I’m going to get one of those babies!
The main features of the new EOS 400D are:
10.1 effective Megapixels
APS-C size 22.2 x 14.8 mm CMOS image sensor
Focal length of 1.6x
Dust removal system
3 frames per second [...]
Get your web 2.0 logo
Published on August 18th, 2006Comments (2)
Completely useless but funny. Get yours here.
Read moreMe me me and me!
Published on August 16th, 2006Comments (4)
No wonder I get the work done so quickly!
Just messing around with Photoshop. It’s real easy to do - just take several pictures of you (or your model). Put every picture in a different layer, cut out the overlapping content, merge the layers and voilà! I’ve also made a couple of attempts in my bathroom!
Serions-nous des glandeurs?
Published on August 11th, 2006Comments (3)
Bon, une fois n’est pas coutume, ce post je vais le faire en Français afin d’éviter de donner des munitions a mes collègues pour me charrier.
Vous avez sans doute tous déjà entendu la blague « que veulent dire les acronymes RATP ou encore PTT » (à cela les réponses sont : Reste Assis T’es Peinard, [...]
Marathon Man
Published on July 31st, 2006Comments (5)
About a year ago I started jogging (after more than 10 years where the only sport I did consisted of lifting my elbow or using my thumb to switch between channels - it was hard!). My beginnings were laborious to say the least (could not even run one kilometre and was quickly out of breath). [...]
Read morePicasso at the NGV
Published on July 30th, 2006Comments (1)
The main exhibit at the moment at the NGV is titled Picasso Love & War 1935 - 1945. As the title suggests, the works of Picasso from that decade are on display, but not only those. Indeed, some of the works of his lover and muse of the time, Dora Maar are also exhibited. [...]
Read moreCanon digital IXUS i Zoom
Published on July 22nd, 2006Comments (3)
After almost 5 good an trouble free years of service, I felt it was time to retire my trusted Canon Powershot A40. It wasn’t really on the agenda but a couple of days ago whilst perusing the DSE (Dick Smith Electronics) store in Victoria Gardens shopping centre I cam across the Canon Digital Ixus i [...]
Read moreSwitch to new picture gallery
Published on June 13th, 2006Comments (0)
I’ve finally done it. I’ve switched the picture gallery to zenphoto. I just wanted to finish the random picture rotating script (the one that outputs 5 random pictures on the front page) before I could complete the switch.
Read moreWe sleep in the bed we make
Published on May 29th, 2006Comments (3)
This is the trailer of Al Gore’s movie, titled an Incovenient Truth. The only trouble I see with releasing such an important subject as a cinema movie is that some people might actually come out of there thinking that it is fiction.
Read moreInto the blue yonder
Published on May 5th, 2006Comments (4)
The wild blue yonder…not in the aquatic sense here. I was just trying to find a catchy title for this post and into the blue sky didn’t come across too well. I say blue (sky) because it seems that, that is where these pictures are taking you.
About these pictures…I’ve received some nice comments and [...]
Fais-moi mal, Johnny
Published on March 5th, 2006Comments (0)
Fais-moi mal, Johnny. Such is the title of the cabaret show we saw on Saturday night. The venue was the Butterfly Club (with its very kitsch decoration) in South Melbourne and that in itself is worth a visit.
Fais-moi mal Johnny was interpreted by Fiona Thorn and she was accompanied by the John Thorn String Ensemble [...]
French Film Festival 2006
Published on March 3rd, 2006Comments (0)
The French Film Festival 2006 is coming to Melbourne. It runs from March 29th to April 12th.
Read moreMaking a (digital) scale model
Published on March 3rd, 2006Comments (1)
If you think that this is a picture of a scale model, think again. It it the real thing (an aerial view of Sydney).
I came across a picture on flickr that really looked just like a model - an impressive one, with infinite detail. I was curious and amazed. Who could pack so much detail [...]
Latest movie - Syriana
Published on February 24th, 2006Comments (1)
Just came back from the cinema. An excellent geopolitical thriller.
Syriana - The official movie site. You can even download the screenplay from it.
Absolutely FABulous
Published on February 23rd, 2006Comments (0)
When leaving the beach tonight, I looked up in the sky and saw some bizarre looking trails left by a plane that looked like an arrow or a fork…
Read more1st year anniversary
Published on February 22nd, 2006Comments (5)
Today is our one year anniversary - one year to the day we arrived here in Australia. Similarly, tomorrow will be my first anniversary joining Supply Chain Consulting…even though I took a short holiday from it for a little while.
Read moreWho wants to buy six apart?
Published on February 20th, 2006Comments (0)
Does anyone out there want to buy Six apart? A quick search in google shows that a lot of people are at the very least talking about it. blAblAwEb (link in French) seems to hot tip Yahoo as the favourite, Om Malik is putting his money on someone like News Corp, whilst Techcrunch mentions Intel [...]
Read moreMusic in Melbourne
Published on February 12th, 2006Comments (2)
Thanks to Randy, one of Isabelle’s friends from the Alliance Française, we got wind of a free concert happening at the Sidney Myer music bowl on Saturday. It was great - it was the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO). The music and the company was highly enjoyable and there was even a great firework to close [...]
Read moreE=http://www.renet-web.net/
Published on February 2nd, 2006Comments (1)
Can’t argue with that! Einstein knew his stuff. Make up your own here.
Read moreCameratoss - Toss a camera
Published on February 1st, 2006Comments (0)
Cameratoss or in other words “toss a camera” is a technique for taking pictures I was not aware of until I stumbled across the cameratoss photo group on flickr.
Read moreAustralia map from Flickr
Published on January 31st, 2006Comments (0)
Flying the flag on Australia Day, originally uploaded by eos1954.
Came across this map of Australia drawn in the sand on Flickr.
Amélie wins in Melbourne
Published on January 29th, 2006Comments (3)
Amélie Mauresmo today (Saturday 28th of January 2006) went on to win the Australian Open, her first Grand Slam tournament win.
Read moreMelbourne Tennis Open 2006 - Day 4
Published on January 22nd, 2006Comments (1)
Thursday was the 4th day of the Australian Tennis open and my second time there. I tried to get tickets for the Rod Laver or Vodafone Arena but they were sold out, so I had to settle for a ground access pass. Actually it was maybe better that way and I did get to see [...]
Read moreMelbourne Tennis Open 2006 - Day 1
Published on January 16th, 2006Comments (2)
Today marked the beginning of the 2006 Australian Tennis Open. I’ve uploaded some pictures in the Gallery. Alternatively, if your looking for pictures with a higher resolution I’m (slowly) starting to add them to my test server Gallery which is running on Zenphoto. It’s been a long day and I’m beat - so I’ll call [...]
Read moreSt Kilda Pier
Published on January 4th, 2006Comments (0)
The temperature has dropped from the scorching New Year 40’s to cool 20’s. Still, nice enough to go for an evening walk.
Read moreNew year, New design
Published on December 31st, 2005Comments (2)
The new year is just around the corner. The new site design is there just ahead of that moment. This design is visually based on the great BinarBonsai website. I’ve gotten rid of the old sidebar, which when I think about it did not offer a great added value to the site and the experience [...]
Read moreAnother hot day!
Published on December 30th, 2005Comments (0)
The picture says it all. A nice and hot 28 Degrees at 7:39pm. It went up to 40 Degrees today!
Read moreChristmas eats
Published on December 25th, 2005Comments (0)
What was meant to be a Christmas picnic ended up becoming a gathering at home las night. The weather played up on us and we thought it was safer to bring the party home. Today was a lot calmer - Eloise came over to quietly celebrate Christmas lunch with us and everyone dosed off whilst
Read moreCool stamp
Published on December 25th, 2005Comments (0)
I’m not much of a stamp collector but amongst all the cards we received, one came with the coolest stamp ever!
Read moreSeason greetings
Published on December 24th, 2005Comments (0)
As 2005 draws to a close, that time of year has come again when you send greetings to close and loved ones.
I wish you all a merry Christmas and a very happy and prosperous new year!
Nicolas Sarkozy podcasted by Loic Le Meur
Published on December 24th, 2005Comments (0)
It’s roughly 7:30 am here in Melbourne, Australia, I get up , have breakfast, fire up my Powerbook, check my emails, surf my favourite websites and then on his site, Loic drops da bomb! This is history in the making…there he is in a pod/vidcast with French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy!
Read moreIt’s going to be a hot day tomorrow!
Published on December 22nd, 2005Comments (0)
Tomorrow marks the last day of work for the year 2005! Looks like it’s going to be a very hot day!
Read morePicnic @ work
Published on December 20th, 2005Comments (2)
Still in the run up to Christmas - 3 days to go before we break off and 9 days to go before I leave my current employer !
Thanks to Deniz who came up with the idea, we had a very enjoyable picnic at work today.
A cat’s life
Published on December 20th, 2005Comments (0)
The latest addition to the family is finding life so hard!
Read moreChristmas lunch @ work
Published on December 19th, 2005Comments (1)
This week is the last week before we break off for Christmas. Martin, the technical lead on my current project invited us all to lunch - thanks Martin.
Read moreWeekend roundup in pictures
Published on December 18th, 2005Comments (0)
Quiet weekend - just a few pictures to post. As usual, click on the thumbs to display a larger version.
Read moreJe lève l’ancre.
Published on December 13th, 2005Comments (0)
Cela va faire 2 mois que je suis chez mon employeur et v’la qu’aujourd’hui j’ai posé ma démission. Mon préavis se termine le 9 janvier 2006 - et après cela, trois semaines de congés!
Read morePhoto booth…the real one.
Published on December 12th, 2005Comments (2)
A little while back I posted about using iChat to sorta simulate Photo Booth functions. I finally got my hands on the real Photo Booth, which with my iSight camera works a treat! I’ve tested it on myself and others and it’s great fun.
Read moreChristmas BBQ @ Angela and Manny’s
Published on December 11th, 2005Comments (0)
To a lot of people this is probably going to sound weird, but this will be our first Christmas where there is no snow, no sub zero temperatures, no need to wear wooly jumpers - no, instead we’ll probably head down the road to St Kilda beach and take in a bit of sun!
Anyway, [...]
Du changement dans l’air…
Published on December 11th, 2005Comments (0)
Bon, tant pis si mon employeur du moment passe par ici et se lance dans la traduction de ce post. Cela va faire 2 mois que j’ai changé d’employeur et je me prépare à en changer encore une fois – cela fera donc mon troisième employeur en Australie. Le côté négatif de ce processus (c’est [...]
Read moreMen (hard) at work down under!
Published on December 8th, 2005Comments (6)
The title says it all!
It was Martin’s (standing) last day at work and in Oz today. After a 4 week stint down under, he goes back to the UK tonight. Thanks for your help and who knows…maybe you’ll be back sooner then you think! What do you think Colin?
Click picture for larger image.
Read moreCeci est une rareté de nos jours!
Published on December 4th, 2005Comments (0)
Tous les jours, lorsque je vais au travail je passe devant cette Renault. Elle me rappelle des souvenirs car mon père avait exactement la même. Le week-end dernier je suis à nouveau passé devant et cette fois j’avais l’appareil photo avec moi. J’en ai profité pour l’immortaliser. La photo ne restitue pas cela très bien, [...]
Read moreJust going out for a smoke!
Published on November 22nd, 2005Comments (0)
Dare I say it…A French woman on a plane bound for Brisbane from Hong Kong tried to open the door of the plane in mid-flight to go out and have a cigarette. It seems that a cocktail of alcohol and tablets taken before the flight got her heigher then the plane’s cruising altitude. She was [...]
Read moreFestoon brings video to Skype
Published on November 11th, 2005Comments (0)
Skype is one nifty piece piece of software. It’s free, it allows you to talk for free (except for the broadband costs in my case), the interface is simple and using it is childs play. The good thing is that there now is a free plug-in that allows you to add video to [...]
Read moreIncredible news aggregator
Published on November 3rd, 2005Comments (0)
In this ever changing world we live in, news is old news by the time it is printed. Furthermore you may be pressed for time and only read the news in between the lines. Also, being French and living in Australia I like to know what is happening around me here yet staying in touch [...]
Read moreIt had to happen !
Published on November 2nd, 2005Comments (0)
Elias and Carol Kai, a Lebanese / Swedish couple living in Sweden had, on the 12th of September a son. They could have called him Sven, Matts or Ahmed…no, they chose Google: Google Kai. A blog was setup for the occasion and yes you’ve guessed it, it’s hosted by Google. If you want to see [...]
Read moreNew Flash picture gallery viewer
Published on October 9th, 2005Comments (0)
This is a new picture gallery browser made in Flash. What is nice about it, is that you can navigate through the thumbnails and enlarge those pictures you want to see. From the backend point of view it’s just an xml file that is fed to it. For simplicity’s sake, I also wrote a [...]
Read moreLast day at Supply Chain Consulting
Published on October 7th, 2005Comments (1)
Today marked my final day at Supply Chain Consulting and at the same time closes another chapter in my career. It’s been a short, but mostly enjoyable ride . I met and worked with some very fine and talented people. A lot of them I will sorely miss and I wish everyone the best. So [...]
Read moreSpell words with Flickr letters
Published on October 6th, 2005Comments (0)
If you go to this site you can type any text and your words will be spelt using flickr letter photos. Worth a visit.
Read moreLeave your name wherever you like
Published on October 6th, 2005Comments (0)
If you ever wanted to see your name in bright lights or write something romantic for your other half in an unusual place, with unusual grandeur then worry no more, this site is for you. It’s a two step process.
You go through the gallery and pick your motif. You then write the text you want [...]
I have seen the future…it ain’t pretty
Published on October 3rd, 2005