Halloween evening table (late posting)

A bunch of friends :-)

danse danse danse,...

Blog from the kitchen !

I'm bloggin from the kitchen, in front of my scrambled eggs ! the Wi-Fi is fantastic ! Freedom ! (hum, where are these new coffee beans from ??? )

Here is the moment : "I cannot see any hard drive" said the install program. I have a SATA disk and XP needs a driver diskette to be able to install on it ! Some patience and we unmounted a floppy drive from a old 386 system, and this was just a bad souvenir. Now all this is running the hell good !

Fountik very happy with the result too. don't think it was the last time we opened the side door of this little monster. I just do not think that we need a floppy !

and that's all, folks ! we won !

once in the box, there are a lot of cables to connect. not easy ...

then the CPU, an AMD barton 3000+, and the ventirad, silent tower from thermaltake, with a large fan too, all on the motherboard, a K7 pro 2 from leadtek with inVidia force 2 400 chipset...

Starting the mounting : first of all the power supply unit, a 350w with a blue lamp in the main switch button and a large silent fan...

My own PC is at home !

I received all the parts of my new PC today !!!!! it's going to be very hot today evening :-)

on duty

I'm on duty this week : this mean I must be ready to answer my mobile 24/7. today they called me twice, 3 hours work. That's not bad because there's a good compensation behind it. And Sasha is going to be with us on the 11th if I manage to buy her ticket !!!

a new home PC !

And as a final point of this foolish week, I just bought a new PC on the web : a real battle machine, to play last games and watch dvds and divx !!!!! Last time I bought a PC was back in 1991, in the previous century :-)

A new portable PC

I'll get today a new portable PC from my company : hurraaaaaaaaaa !

tout va bien

la vie est belle !

quiet week

a lot of people on vacation during these week : the office is veeeeeery quiet, that's nice.

Super week-end

yesterday, Ed (buying vegetable and pizza for the coming week), then FNAC/Darty to buy a MP3 player for Fountik (he does know yet how to put songs in it :-) ), IKEA to fetch air filters for a kitchen appliance and a canceled together because a friend of us lost his mother.
today, we have again a planned together party, with different friends. it's at 7PM so all day long to kill time how I can : installing netbeans 4.1, java 1.5, posting on blogs, playing EE... all that is only fun !

nothing new

A post just to say that nothing new around. did you noticed how the weather is sweet these days ?
Last week-end we had a raclette party at home : I have some pictures but I didn't yet find time to post them. Be patient, they're coming up.

I'll be at work

I am going to work a little bit tomorrow, I have to reboot my server. That's going to shake-up saturday the good way.

Friday

I don't know what to do for the week-end. Last week-end was marked by the Nuit Blanche (that I didn't appriciate at all), but for the coming one, no idea. Looks to be very quiet at home, playing EE on PC, why not ?

Special for Angie :-)

Iojik's Blog

Angie, look here
it's a full album of last Masha's fotki.

Sad day

Very sad weather today in Paris.

Hu ! that was hard day work

I just begin to feel better. Ia bezumno want to sleep !
Tomorrow is friday so I can cope with it.
There's something very special this week-end in Paris : no it is not the Auto Mondial, it's the Nuit Blanche (white night).
All night long, there will be artists in the streets or other places, wide open to the visitors, with presentation of surprising performances, with light shows, sounds and music, sculptures, actor performances and so on.
It's the 3rd occurence : I didn't go there the previous ones, but this year I'm decided to bring Ryzhya to this event.

Hum, may be I know why I have such a hangover today :-)

Pizza and Ryzhya

Today is a good day : I plan to have a pizza at home for my lunch :-)
Yesterday I had a talk with Ryzhya around how I'm wrting this. In fact I'm making a mistake : this word that stands for "red haired" must be transcripted ryzhaya instead.
Well, I'll continue to write it like that, with the mistake, it's my conservative side :-)

Q : What Masha did all sunday long ?

Masha plays the spider woman :-)

Monday : the sky is grey

It's cold outside and grey like if the sky will fall on earth soon.
I'll have a tough week at work, preparing further my projects for year.
I don't feel very easy with what is waiting me there.
Well, let's think to something more funny, like shashliki : we have to setup the next session asap, and empire earth : I want to start another game, and we have to plan a visit to our friends in Reims.
Hum, not bad :-)
(Iojik's Blog)

12:30 today, french bread, rose wine and rillettes with salt from Guerande island. That's a kind of brunch that give you wonderful mood for the rest of the day :-)

At the terrace on Montmartre. Just on the sqaure where so much portrait makers are making 24/7.

Uncap the beer with the help of the lighter. You can see the flying caps on the right, catched just before it leaves the picture !

The Classic, in front of the Sacre-Coeur.

Another try with all of us in the picture. Even if the focus is not perfect (far from there) I like it.

A try of a composition with the miror and whith all of us on the picture. (try 1)

A beer in Clamart

Let have a beer in Clamart near our house block

Masha, Welcome !

Please, meet with Masha ! She came and visit us today. She may stay longer, she doesn't know yet.
She is a student in french at the Valenciennes university.

bolognese

Today we decided to try a genuine italian recipe of bolognese sauce.
ooooo how it was tasty, my god !
I never tried something like that.
strange but tasty !

Surprise

I managed a big surprise for Fount. I told him that I was waiting the technician to upgrade the internet modem to a 2M model.
Then he waited for the visitor because I was at work.
The guy came and installed a cable tv decoder. It's a little increase of the monthly fee but now there are more than 100 channels :-)
Fount is fond of (really crazy really) of movies and serials. So this arrival is a big shock, a pleasant one of course.
I guess that my Kikouyou will love it too next time he will come to us.
I have a secret : there 1 year of Foot+ free bundled, and that's a bit for me too :-)

Fabrice and Julia : really good time all together !

Olga and Ryzhya : evidence of good time !

And this is the result ! Shashliki on the mangal, ready after 15 mn, while you have to turn them regularly.

Arrrrrhhh these footballer kids !

I almost forgot that week-end is also the long run for these kids playing football (soccer) in the inner garden of our block.
I quite hate them because they have no respect at all for us, living around, and their parents are encourageing them in this behaviour.
I think that the whole society is loosing a lot by forgotting to learn kids a minimum of citizenship etiquette.
We little by little returning to the forest age, when the strongest was always right.

Datcha and Shashlik party

This is a shashlik party in our friend's datcha near Moscow, this summer.

This is my 100th post !!!!

And I am ready for this week-end : it's going to be a shashlik sunday, with the mangal appliance I bought in Moscow this summer.
The weather for the moment is very well suited for that party, keep my fingers crossed !

Autumn is back

It's official, automn is back. here in Paris suburbs, it means gray, some rain, wind, quite cold but not very cold. In one word, sad ! I hate this Paris style weather ! Beuuuuuuurk ! I'm living here forced because of the job being here too. I have only one hope, is to be able to move. The best move for me and Ryzhya is to move for Moscow, but Bretagne will fit for a while too.

Beer and white wine

Who can tell me if he's already experienced that beer and wine are nto well suite for each other. I feel quite bad after mixing these beverage !!!

Why the shoutbox doesn't work ?

I thought that the shoutbox will tempt some of the visitors to say something, but nothing happened !
strange, because it's easier than comments and is doesn't last as long as comment.

Sasha, Ryzhya and my Bibou, in La Coudouliere, Feb 2001.

Sasha : she is 15 on this picture, and it's near the MGU (МГУ), Moscow.

Anka : she is a colleague working in our Moscow office.

Arnold last year New Year (1er jan 2004) : it's unbelievable how he is looking as his mother on this picture !

Arnold : he is tired after the first day skying.

Ryzhya : it's cold on top of the eiffel tower, and quite windy !

The Trocadero and La Defense from the the top floor of the Eiffel Tower.

Shoutbox

I have added a shoutbox. I hope that you, visitors, will be glad of this new feature, so we can have a small talk together !
давай давай !!!

Speed blogging !

I like more and more this little link to the editor !

The 100th visitor

Yesterday this blog passed the 100-visitor barrier. Hip hip hip - Huraaaaa !
I know that others have more than that every day, but for me it's not bad.
In reality, most of these visits are mine, when I'm updating the blog :-)
If you compare posts (98) and visitors (103), you'll understand that my blog is almsot never visited :-)
I blog just for my pleasure, and I'm trying to get some experience in the writing of small articles.
When I look at other blogs, what I feel as the worst defect of mine, is the lack of originality.
I like so much these blogs either very clean and glassy, either these bardachok when you think the author has not all his/her brain potential enable (but all is under control of course, and that is great !).
So, I have to improve dramatically if I want to find my blog as beautiful and interesting as these ones.

Sunday at home

it started tonight, because we watched the US Open final between 2 russians, Kustnetzova et Dementieva, then I watched F1 Monza gd prix.
Ryzhya has her back hurting her and our plan to buy some shelves went short.

From left to right, my sister, my mother and one of the 2 sisters of my sister. Taken in Pin Rolland, La Seyne-sur-mer, this summer 2004.

Workers of the world, Unite !

The face of the world will change radicaly, away from the brain illness of today business men lead by blindness of share holders, when a chinese worker and a US worker will stop to work while they have not the same level of social coverage than in France or in Sweden. The globalization of these product units for localized markets will explode when a tide from the workers side will bring them up to the consciousness of the similarity of their condition.

Cars for the future

I think that one feature that MUST be included in any project for a new car is that this car can't kill anybody, no matter hw much it costs ! One will say that even some words can kill. That's true for romantism, but in technology there's no place for that. Engineers and marketing people must think about that, as a slogan : "Buy this car which never kill anybody !". That will be even stronger than the green mark !

Meat !

Huow ! what a piece of meat I bought today : the cote de boeuf ! I did it on the grill ! It was really great ! To go with it, I cooked a roquefort sauce : onions, roquefort and cream. I choose a Moulin a vent for the wine, a strong Bourgogne ! Well, it was proznik zhevata !

The great Hair Show, with my great friend Roman !

This is the entrance of our 5-story house in Moscow, in Dinamo district. It's very nice and very quiet. JUL 04.

Paris Blog

I read my weekly official guide to Paris event, Zurban, and you know what ?
They have an article about Blogs ! They are making a tour of blogs around Paris.
That's a sign that blogs are already part of the pop culture : have you try to imagine all these blogs owner posting like hell about mountains of different themes : their life but also poetry, technics, art, porn too, of course.
I think this is a momentum that is not likely to stop.
In the range of side effect are these shoutbox, little applet taking place on the side of a blog and the visitors are no longer adding comment to a specific post but are invecting (is that an english word ? I doubt, sorry about that) the author "directly".
That's right that the shoutbox is such an idea that I want to add this feature a very serious web based appli in my company.
In the side appli collection, the second is the photo gallery : these specialized sites are offering picture collection sharing capabilities, and some of bloggers are pointing to their photo gallery in these photo sites ! Great !

Finally, the syndication is also very popular, with technicians able to compose their home page with pieces of news coming from different sources !
Let's BLOG !!!!

Beginning a shashlik party with a kvas salad !

An old wooden house in Moscow. It's a cafe-restaurant. It has been restored several times but always wooden and keeping the old style.

Sushi party in Moscow with Ryzhya and Palmochka. Jul 04.


This restaurant is located on Leningradskii prospekt.

Landscape view on Lituanian lake. Jul 04.

Here we are in Moscow, July '04, the place is the "News Pub" downtown. The music group is the same as when we met with Ryzhya, in 1996 !

Here are the muses of this yesterday evening togather : Sveta, my love Ryzhya and Oksa (from left to right).

Newspaper distributors and typical architecture. For my, this picture is one of the most american.

This is the Pontiac Sunfire that I had in Denver in August. Very sympathic little car, with automatic gearbox.

I'm going to eat my pizza in Chicago Hoare Aeroport. Or may be it's the pizza is going to eat me, who knows ! :-)

A typical street corner in the center of Boulder, CO.

Have you seen the red light ? It means the electricity has been switched on. Soon we will take off from Roissy CDG.

Sunrise on the mountains

A nice sunrise on Flatiron Crossing, Broomfield, CO (Aug '04). Over there, it's the Rockies.

The large store is a Wal-Mart : it was the grand opening while I was there.

And also they love BIG BIG trucks !

Huuuuu, American love BIG cars !!!! (Boulder, CO, Aug '04)

Two Little Secrets

I can tell you a little secret : my wife (again) felt asleep while watching TV.
I must tell that for her it's quite a difficult exercise, because she's not speaking french very well, and I see that she's making a lot of efforts to understand.
Another little secret : our neighbour gave to the world a new small women : her girl was born 27th of august and today we saw this diamon for the very first time. Life is Life !

Next week trip

I'm going to work next full week in Denver,CO ! I was there in 2000 (you've seen one old pict on this blog already) and I'm very happy to be back. But last time was for symposium, while this time is for collaborative working (meettings).

An old church in Vilnius.