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Of all the stuffs we tasted and brought from Scotland, oatcakes are what we miss the most. Then Irn Bru. We can well live without Irn Bru but we are addicted to oatcakes. Problem is, we are finishing our last package of oatcakes stock despite our careful strategy to make it last as long as possible.We are already planning to bring back some in our next trip to London. They do have oatcakes in

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How? Did King Arthur passed by here?

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Why do they have postal boxes on the road in the middle of nowhere in Scotland?

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And then there are also these 10 good reasons not to stay in a hostel, bunkhouse, and such: It IS cheap so you will get the minimal set for survival and nothing more - this means NO service You get thin small bed, and if you are lucky a thin small pillow, that gives you a back ache when you wake up the next morningYou get, in 80% of cases, bunk beds - if you get to sleep above then you have to

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Here are the 10 good reasons to stay in a (cheap) hostel, bunkhouse, and such:It is CHEAPYou get the most strategic positions and the nicest view - and if you are lucky even from your bedroom's windowYou can save money by cooking or "cooking" your own foodYou can save more by making your own teas and coffees You meet (mostly) nice friendly people instead of snob obnoxious ones you frequently have

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United Kingdom being a union of lots of bright people - Scots are among others great inventors - why do not they simply adopt mixing valve and spare people from domestic accidents? They do not even need to invent it.

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How do Brits manage to use their hot-and-cold separate taps without burning their hands?This is the most intriguing trivia to which we still have not found an answer even after dozens of times suffering - from aow to a slight burn - during our recent one week trip to Scotland. If someone out there knows the secret, pleaseee let us know, it would spare us more damages for our next voyage to

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We have just got back from our "Around West Highland in 7 days" last Sunday. It was such an incredible experience in such a wonderful land populated by, I would say, the friendliest people I have ever met in my entire existence! Make me already want going back.Weather - basically a day of "good" weather out of two. Not bad, I suppose, we were after all in Scotland. Rains were not what we can

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We finally had time to say hello and taste our next-door (real) Corean restaurant after one year - we promised to pass there last year when we were settling in our current appartment. So, the first reason that "forced" us to go is the fact that the owner is a "friend".Odori18, rue Letellier75015 PARISTél. 01 45 77 88 12Verdict? Homey atmosphere, reasonable price, and good food. True that we will

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We tested a breathtakingly beautiful Parisian tea-room - and yet very cosy - in Paris 2nd quarter named A Priori Thé. We wanted to treat some friends for a chic-but-not-too-much tea-time to celebrate our wedding since we could not invite everyone we wanted. It was sort of an on-field inspection.I was not really hungry but their scones looked so wonderfully good that I took a mouthful of it. Then,

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Once out of the church, my husband said that it was weird to have a ring on his finger, it was like having a worn-out band-aid.

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..., bottled water, is expensive in Berlin. Perhaps in the whole Germany as well. Left one (below) at 3€ for 0.5l at a Reichstag dome's kiosk and right one (below) at 5€ for 1l at Zur Letzten Instanz.Be careful when asking for water, if you really want normal one - without bubbles - then make sure to ask for still water else they will give you the default sparkling water. And still water is

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Last Friday morning - Main program of the day is the Swan Lake ballet at Deutsche Oper in Charlottenburg quarter, in children version - the reason why my husband agreed to go while minimizing the risk of getting bored during the short performance - an hour instead of the usual 3 hours.Once out, we decided to reward his superhuman effort of watching a ballet-for-children by a nice lunch at Zur

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We took advantage of German museums' free-for-all hours last Thursday evening to visit Berlin's Altes Museum and have a glimpse of the beautiful Nefertiti, 35-century old. That same evening German football team were having their quarter-final match.Luckily for me, I could admire Nefertiti almost in private and take such a rare picture without crowd during a free visit!

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Four days in Berlin.I imagined Berlin as a grand chic city in a sort of avant-gardist way but it turns out to be a lot more human than what I thought. There is the uptown Berlin and the popular Berlin but this has nothing to do nowadays with the Berlin wall. Some parts of East Berlin has even become more expensive than the West side.We enjoyed so much our four days visiting the city from the

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We have just adopted our traveller pinguin and we named him - I think it is a him - Glooby. He will make a great companion in our voyages since we have planned to make the most of our no-baby period by travelling as much as we can.Travel routes can be traced on Glooby's passport.

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(Last) saturday morning. We were tired. Wedding things monopolyzing our time and even our sleep - at least mine - and works have been quite a nightmare these days. We were not really in the mood of doing house cleaning but after cancelling it for 3 weeks for many many reasons - trip back to Alsatia for the wedding preparation, rendez-vous, etc. - it was about time to do it, like it or not. My

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Our top set box, called SomeBox - the sole appareil in the heart of a home for a geek to survive - providing us with television programs, unlimited local phone calls, and unlimited internet connection, broke down. At least partially. We could not make calls.My geek husband called the service provider this morning while we were having our breakfast. After a few attempts doing what the hotliner

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An ex-colleague of mine is getting married this summer, 3 weeks after my wedding to be exact. We feel clearly all the humdrum of his excitation since the day he "declares his flame", that is how we say it in French, boosted by an expensive diamond engagement ring he showed me. The event was then consecrated by a bottle of champagne he brought during another colleague's BBQ party. I learnt later

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We had a (loooooooong) coffee time with our wedding photograph, that I mentionned sometime ago, yesterday evening. It was a web-rank-geek-things session where we, or should I say him and my husband, tried to boost up his website rank on google search.I take things more on the practical side as I noticed during all the hushy bussy of our wedding organization that most women - that means the

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Stohrer - Official pastry chef of Louis XV's polish wife, originating from Wissembourg in Alsatia, continues to make incomparably delicious pastries for Parisians since 1730 in exactly the same kitchen and sells them in exactly the same boutique!We had a stroll last Saturday afternoon in Paris 2nd quarter and passed in front of Stohrer's where I just could not resist to stop by their windows

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I managed to drag my dear husband to a waltz private lesson this evening to prepare our Alsatian traditional wedding in a couple of months from now. I told him that it's better to humiliate ourselves in private now than later in public. He said okay. Was it for pleasing me or did I give the right argument?

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When we consented to celebrate our "real" wedding in my family-in-law's hometown, we thought of being courteous to the whole (big !) family by making it possible for everyone of this (huge) tribe to be present for the big day. We started making a list of friends to be brought over from a distance, we have after all 500 kms to go from Paris and we found out that we have to make a big sacrifice: we

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Previously, I brought the subject of family name-first name because I was about to get to a family name. It was done last Saturday, April 12th 2008 at 11.OO a.m., in Paris 15th's city hall. As we have decided that it was only paper-work and not the "real" wedding, we only had close family of my from-now-on-husband and our witnesses.We had a wonderful time with our restricted "commitee". A

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I have lived my whole life in France, at least until now, as "XXXXXX, No First Name (NFN)". Yes, you have it right, it is written black on white "NFN", "XXXXXX" being taken as my family name.Why on Earth would I want to have it like that? Because everyone has to have a family name in this country and if you don't then French bureaucracy would gladly put what you have as family name. Why?

Pupucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12995414344124327699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12266417.post-1118128301624890072005-06-07T08:42:00.000+02:002005-06-07T10:30:12.220+02:00

I have dedicated my whole May to the absolute necessary requirements for my future engineer life : projects, exams, and... internship hunting! Oh yes, it was a hunt. With all these informaticians flooding the internship market I have to distinguish myself to get a place, this market is now as tight as job market, mark my words.What would you do if you need something desperately as if your life

Pupucenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12266417.post-1114848155861884602005-04-30T09:56:00.000+02:002005-04-30T10:02:35.863+02:00

On my recent post about the victory of David over Goliath, I need to correct a detail. Instead of starting at the age of 14, Goliath turned out to be a homo-ordinator with his first computer at the age of 6 !

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A 3rd world country originated student in information science is clearly nothing compared to a long-time experienced geek growing up with his computer since the age of 14. Though people should be modest as wise old people say, I can not really blame Goliath for looking with half-eye to me, the gap is just too much to believe the contrary.Nevertheless, just as the Bible announced the victory of

Pupucenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12266417.post-1114502916667482952005-04-26T09:49:00.000+02:002005-04-26T10:08:36.666+02:00

It would be so wonderful if someone could ever find a dynamic hash function, one such that can send a unique value within a small finite range based on dynamic keys, such as an array of pointers, in a way that two different keys give different values.

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A great wonder, along with its numerous theories and painful demonstrations, for doing many things such as compressing dictionary and not to mention the joy of calculating more complicated stuffs : pattern-matching, model-checking, etc etc.A total headache to implement in a language such as C/C++ with more to come hitting your aching head mercilessly when you receive the segmentation fault

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Most of my female classmates consider me one of the luckiest girls in class for having a super-geek boyfriend. They are right, about the super-geek title he deserves, but not about being lucky.Today, for example, I am not lucky at all for having this super-geek behind my back while I was working. He literally scolded me at any first stroke I made on my computer keyboard. He did not even bother to

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At almost 28 years old -I have to emphasize it because I still have at least 2 weeks left before my birthday- it is so common to have nephews and nieces but I was nevertheless so excited at this idea when my brother who got married last year announced it proudly over the phone. I still find it hard to believe, not for having a nephew or a niece since physically there is nothing miraculous about

Pupucenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12266417.post-1113896689694621992005-04-19T09:26:00.000+02:002005-04-20T09:18:31.840+02:00

Since the last post concern geek-stuff, I think it is about time that Glooby talks about something else. After all, hey, this is the place for Anything on Everything, we have to keep up the reputation right?What subject attracts most of the very masculin world of information technology? I am not saying that IT world is an exclusive territory for this gender but we have to admit that at least

Pupucenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12266417.post-1113855763398040452005-04-18T20:22:00.000+02:002005-04-18T23:05:20.720+02:00

I was really fond of Total Annihilation. It was a great game which was far ahead of it's time back then. Even now it's quite enjoyable : not really as eye candy as recent RTS games, but I found it's gameplay really different.I just discovered TA: Spring. It's really impressive : just look at these screenshots !It even seems that's they'll release it really soon now. Stay tuned !

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Wow, finally I do set up a blog...Many friends, who are not in the IT business, have asked me why I do not have a blog. This was for various reasons, ranking from "no time" to "I do not know what to say anyway".So here it is. Let's see what will happen here...

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