Conduit syncronisation tool for Gnome desktop

A useful sycronisation tool for Gnome Desktop is Conduit – it allows you to share data between computers, PIM type devices and even online applications. It even helps you to upload photos to online services such as Picasa and Flickr.

More details…

http://live.gnome.org/Conduit

New safety drive for every school

SCHOOLS across the country will bring in better measures to improve pupils’ and teachers’ safety by the end of the academic year, Education Minister Luc Chatel has announced.
Each of France’s 8,000 collèges and lycées will have its own security team, made up of school staff and gendarmes whose job is to prevent conflicts and take action if violence breaks out.

 

http://www.connexionfrance.com/school-safety-security-protection-measures-france-college-lycee-11372-view-article.html

Child of the 1980’s

I don’t think I’m a child of the 80’s, but I was certainly a teenager then. Leafing a the blog of the same name brought lots of memories back… I’m sure they will for you if you were from that period of the A Team, Danger Mouse, bad hair, Timmy Mallet, Metal Mickey and Outer Spacers… http://www.childofthe1980s.com/

I wonder what Rémy will make of it in 10 years time…

Rémy went ballistic this morning…

What a great start to the day… as Isa left for work this morning, Rémy went ABSOLUTELY BALLISTIC… and I mean THE MOTHER OF ALL TANTRUMS. He was trying to get out of the kitchen door, stopping Isa from closing it from the outside. Hitting the glass with such a force. Hitting the glass on the living room window then trying to hit me. I carried him to his room literally kicking and screaming…

I won’t tolerate anything like that.
He is now calming down in bed.

I told him that he should know by now that Maman has to go to work and that Dvddy stays at home to look after him. That I won’t tolerate him behaving like that and that he is a very bad little boy.
It is very RARE he throws a tantrum when his Maman leaves for work, especially as he was very calm before she went. But judging by this morning either he has been building this up for a while or simply he is just tired. He has never got to that stage before – close, but not like this morning.

Strange phone call from a woman in Vienna?

As I was getting Rémy ready for his nap at around 1pm (in fact I was trying to find an English story book to read to him), the phone rang. I picked up and had some weird language being spoken to me by a womans voice then my name mentioned. So I replied in French saying that “Oui je suis John Nelson”.

She then asked if I spoke English to which I replied “yes”. She started trying to speak English which I didn’t understand too well. But the gist of it was that she was a musician in Vienna.

With Rémy waiting for his story, and me wanting him to get some sleep – I told her: “Sorry, but I don’t know who you are. I am also a bit busy”. Then hung up. I really couldn’t understand her English very well. Whoever she was, I wonder how she got my number. Surely if she was ringing from Vienna she would expect to get someone speaking French to them from a number in France?

As I was reading the story to Rémy (Teletubbies) a few minutes later the phone rang again. Thinking it was perhaps the same woman I decided not to answer – especially as I wanted to get Rémy off to sleep. Of course he was pushing me to answer the phone – by saying “Its the phone!” over and over a again.

If he had been with me, he would have answered the phone for me! That would have been fun.

But I’m still sitting here wondering who the hell was she???