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100% accurate weather forecasting

Ria — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 20:38:49 +0000

100% accurate!

Destination Beaufort, Hérault. So laid back the weather forecast is for last week.

Verse-moi encore du Ricard, il fait beau, fin d’histoire !

There’s no Internet connection in the rental villa, so I’m also looking forward to reading a lot, with a tall glass of chilled wine and the sound of

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A man, a woman, a ‘tache

Ria — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:09:29 +0000

Translating agricultural development articles doesn’t often make me break out into a smile, so I was particularly pleased to discover this evening that the Chief Executive of the Seychelles Agricultural Agency goes by the wonderful name of Antoine Marie Moustache. It’s the mother lode of tease.

And then there’s his job: with a land mass

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Woman time is over

How to be a TV journalist

Ria — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:36:42 +0000

Don’t believe the hype

Ria — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:22:59 +0000

iPad slips from hype topspot

Now that the brouhaha is beginning to fade, maybe we can take stock of the absurdity of the latest product launch by Apple. For those unable to attend the event in person, there were live blogs galore and even a blow-by-blow retelling of what was happening inside by vloggers refused

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Blue and yellow

Ria — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:49:56 +0000

Back to work on Monday after an exhausting IKEA weekend: long trip to the mainland on Saturday, then six hours shuffling round the blue and yellow megabox, sustained only by Swedish meatballs and a family-size bag of Daims; Sunday busy with the allen keys, baffled by pictogram instructions simplified for our 23-language community.

What

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Sibling rivalry 2.0

Ria — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:12:07 +0000

As technology evolves, so do the arguments between siblings. Until recently, we heard outraged voices shrieking

“Mama! She broke my Wookie!”

“Don’t touch my My Little Pony stud farm!”

Things grew quieter when they started squatting in front of our laptops and watching Youtube and playing online games (with obligatory headphones).

Two days ago,

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What does not kill me, makes me stronger

Ria — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:21:45 +0000

After spending a few days in the north of Senegal, I returned to Dakar to find one of my sites had been hacked. Each page of my photoblog, Ria Galleria, had a long list of ads and links above my own photo posts. The ads were all related to travel, which is preferable to zoophilia,

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Postlapsarian PNP: After the fall from grace

Ria — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 09:04:25 +0000

The recent general election in Jamaica was a close run between the People’s National Party, in power for 18 years, and the Jamaica Labour Party. While at least one of the sixty seats remains to be decided by the courts, the JLP still managed to squeeze past the incumbents with a four-seat majority.

Politically motivated

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Relookage

Ria — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 00:09:26 +0000

With odds of 7 to 1, you might be surprised by a minor relookage, as the French say, in the form of a new header image. The odds come from a random image rotator, scripted by PhotoMatt, drawing on seven different header images.

Only thing is … the images seem reluctant to change with each

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Sandblaster Beauty Salon

Ria — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 06:09:44 +0000

“OK, Mrs Musgrave. I think we’ve done as much as we can down here. Perhaps you’d like to step upstairs for our new innovation in skin rejuvenation …”

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