English Over The Sleeve

And so unexpected!

Google and Virgin are collaborating over at Virgle.  Check it out!

The number three most popular article on Reuters today is “More Americans turning to Web for news”.

In other news, bears have been shitting in the woods - and there is a persistent rumour flying round the web : the Pope is actually a Catholic.

Robert S. commented on a two-year-old post of mine, about Radio Free Colorado. Now, as I’m pretty sure that none of youactually read comments left two years after the event, I thought I’d reprint it here :

Radio Free Colorado is back on the air since January 2007!

RFC sounds *better than ever* and has an excellent new Song Request feature, you can browse Radio Free Colorado’s entire music library and request the DJ to play any song you like.

Also, there is a 192 kbps MP3 channel on RFC which is streaming now. Wonderful sounds!

Radio Free Colorado - http://www.radiofreecolorado.net

So there you have it. Let me remind everybody that streams can be played in vlc (for Windows and Linux) and of course in Amarok (by the way, did you know that Amarok has its own page in Facebook?)

M6, chaîne de TV privée française, diffuse cette semaine “Trader”, avec Ewan Mc Gregor… Quel flaire !!! Apparemment, quelqu’un, dans le service programmation, a ses entrées à la Société Générale…
GF

You may remember that there was, last year, a small buzz about the French anti-2007 resistance. Guess what? They’re coming to Paris!

Check out fonacon.net, and go to Montmartre this evening if you want to see them in action.

For various reasons, I have to go to Vienna, Austria, in April 2008, and in a spirit of economy, I chose to fly with Niki. Niki being low-cost, they don’t give you a paper ticket - you just get an email.

Imagine therefore my surprise when I received a large envelope from Austria this morning - when I opened it, there was, without a word of explanation, a rather large Niki-branded blow-up aeroplane.

My question is, do I have to present it at check-in? And if so, does it have to be blown up?

The only use for it that I could see was if the plane had to land on water - I could float away to safety. There are just two problems with that: one, the thing specifies that it is not a safety device, and two, there isn’t really much water between Paris and Vienna anyway.

Anyway, I’ll put some photos up here if/when I get someone to blow it up round to blowing it up.

Interested parties may like to note that my tickets cost me less than €100.00 return.

This is a web exclusive, brought to you by ourcq.org! A scoop!

The famous French band, Bag in Box, will be performing live in Pontchateau on the 14th of December! Get your skates on!

The radio has told me that the station staff at one station away on my local line thought that there were trains today. They were wrong - and they found out on the radio

“We don’t want to negociate! We want our retirement at 37 yrs and that’s it!” (and that’s a straight quote). Looks like the unions (who are negociating) are losing control.

I think I’ll move to Ardèche - the only French department with no stations.

Well, I’d best be off. No trains, no buses - Shank’s pony rulez! (and should that become Sarko’s Pony?)

Ebay - buy anything! (link to The Register).

While on the subject of links, try xkcd.com

I’ve just heard the 2nd in command of the SNCF (French State Railway authority) on the radio: apparently, there’s been a concerted attack on the TGV system. At least three fires have been set in the signalling system, with the apparent intention of supporting the current strikes and the effect of stopping all TGV services in the east and the west of the country (TGV Est and TGV Atlantique).

Ourcq over the Sleeve: breaking news?