"Hello"...

..."i love you won't you tell me your name?"...

Who's never thought of that song by the Doors while walking down the street?

Prague

An evening at Pierrot's

Click the image.. and keep clicking the images!

More Berlin...

International symbol of marriage

... i got this from Mary this morning... do you guys think there's a hidden message to me somewhere??

Wanted: Vélib beta testeurs!

Un post en français.. une fois n'est pas coutume..

Sur une idée lumineuse de mon ami Vinz Callaghan, je me suis amusé à développer cette petite appli "Vélib" à installer sur votre téléphone mobile, pour gérer vos stations préférées et interroger de n'importe où le nombre de vélos et de places disponibles...

Pour ce faire, il suffit de d'aller avec le navigateur internet de votre mobile à l'adresse suivante:
http://joune.free.fr/velib/Velib.jar
ou éventuellement
http://joune.free.fr/velib/velib.jad
suivant votre téléphone..

Ca devrait être assez simple à utiliser: les stations sont regroupées par zones.. le menu permet d'ajouter une nouvelle zone, d'ajouter une nouvelle station pour la zone courante, d'afficher les stations de la zone courante pour en effacer.. on peut entrer plusieurs stations autour d'une zone.. chaque station est identifiée par, son numéro unique (qu'on peut trouver sur le site de velib) et une description personnelle..

Par exemple:

• Gare du nord
  
• 10033 (rue saint vincent de paul)
• 10028 (24 rue de dunkerque)
• 10029 (39 rue de dunkerque)
• Les Halles
• 1028 (porte berger)
• 1027 (rue berger)
• etc...

L'option "Go!" du menu, interroge le serveur central et donne le nombre de vélos disponibles et le nombre de places disponibles pour chaque station de la zone courante.

Voilà..
En esperant que vous trouverez ca pratique...
Je ne vous garanti pas qu'il n'y aura pas de bugs hein! mais bon, ca marche sur le Nokia de Vinz et sur mon LG alors ca peut vous être utile aussi... (en même temps, j'ai pas réussi à l'installer sur le Samsung de mon frangin, mais ca veut pas dire qu'il faut baisser les bras!)

Vous pouvez afficher vos doléances (ou meme vos encouragements!) en réponse à ce post.. mais je ne vous promet pas de pouvoir répondre à toutes vos attentes les plus folles!

Enjoy.. (ou pas)

John la nonne!

What the F*k is wrong with people??

Holocaust memorial

Let's face it..

...at this pace, i'll never manage to finish my new website, and this now this blog is slowly dying.. so i'll change plans and fix two birds with one spoon (whatever)...

anyway here's a picture of the Reichstag glass dome in Berlin... i'll try to be a bit more regular from now on!

After the storm

Flower / Power

It's been a while..

hum... still anybody reading out there??

if you guys think i'm lazying around, i'm not! i just have a bit too much on my hands right now...
in the meantime, here are a few parisian graffitis to decorate your desktops.. enjoy!

isn't she lovely...

click to see images - "x" to exit

Antigravity

Gravity

A whole new begining!

Well.. those of you who know me a bit will easily understand how unbelievable a piece of news this is for this kind of bold decision is quite unlike me, but there we go: I'M ENGAGED!!

Wow!... I even managed to write it!

It all started sometime around mid 2005, when Mary decided to come into my life.. through the window!
Of my web browser i mean.
And that's how we became pen pals for a while... until last year i decided to stop by and meet her as i was on my way around the world..
It only took a few days to realize that, well.. we really liked each other!

Weird thing, it is.. you know how, in your early teenage years you start to realize how beautiful women are, and how numerous they are! and how are you ever going to choose only one?!... until you start knowing them better, only to realize, to your great disappointment, that most are essentially a real pain in the neck and then you start wondering how you'll ever manage to choose one at all!!

And one day that One pops into your life and you don't know why.. you keep trying to apply all kinds of logic to it, but there's none.. all you know is that if you let this one go, you'll hate yourself for the rest of your life..

Well... i did let her go!

I went on with my travels and started freaking out about this nonsense relationship and eventually came to the conclusion that i had just been fooled by her soothing smile and i better forget all about it. Damn "commitment"!.. is there a scarier word out there?!

But no matter how hard i'd try, i couldn't forget.

Nor could she for that matter, and with much more courage than i would ever have had, she decided to face the devil and enter my life yet another time; and by the front door of my apartment this time!

Now, you don't get this kind of chance three times in a lifetime, and i had been foolish enough to let her go once; it was about time i kicked myself in the bottom once and for all and did something about it!!

On May 31st 2007, Mary and i decided to share our lives and live together in Paris... hopefully in the near future.. for now she's gone back home, temporarily this time.

We hope you'll share our joy and we shall keep you posted!

Mumbai traffic

My usual description of India to those who ask me about it is that even a UFO landing next to me in the streets there wouldn't come as much of a surprise!

For instance, when driving in India you should always be on the lookout for an elephant around the corner or a Boeing 737 illegally parked!

"The decommissioned aircraft was being driven through the city at the weekend when the driver got lost and then abandoned the plane." !!

Speaking of which..

Speaking of a violent civilisation.. my aunt Anita Dube's latest exhibition at the gallery Almine Rech, 19 rue de Saintonge, Paris 3, comes right on time for this blog and to give another view of our world - both abstract and yet quite explicit.

The show opened today and will be held until May 15th.

This is a violent civilisation...

Never cheap of a controversial discussion, i shall respond hereby to my friend Bobby's suggestion: "Post about gun control on your blog, and I will be happy to argue with you :)"

I met Bobby during my end of studies internship in Virginia Tech... this campus recently got some extra notoriety for being the theater of the most recent -and most deadly- university shooting in the US (unfortunately it tends to be so frequent that we have to be precise which shooting we're talking about)

So tell me why is it that, some 200 years after americans have had to "defend themselves against evil native indians" (hmm..), they still all should have guns at home and go shoot each other in universities, ghettos and other suburbs?!

And by the way, what is it about guns that so fascinates kids all the way to the remote buddhist regions of the world?!

May i illustrate by quoting Gil Scott-Heron's excellent song on the subject?

Peace out.

GUN by Gil Scott-Heron

Brother Man nowadays living in the ghetto
Where the danger's sure enough real
Well when he's out late at night
and if he's got his head on right
Well, I lay you 9 to 5 he's walking with steal.

Brother Man says he's 'fraid of gangsters
Messing with people just for fun
He don't want to be next
He got a family to protect
So just last week he bought himself a gun.

Chorus:
Everybody got a pistol, everybody got a 45
And the philosophy seem to be
At least as near as I can see
When other folks give up theirs, I'll give up mine.

This is a violent civilization
If civilization's where I am
Every channel that I stop on
Got a different kind of cop on
Killing them by the millions for Uncle Sam

Saturday night just ain't that special
Yeah, I got the constitution on the run
'Cause even though we've got the right
To defend our home, to defend our life
Got to understand to get it in hand about the guns

(chous repeat & solo break)

Saturday night just ain't that special
Freedom to be afraid is all you want
Yes if you don't want to be next
You've got a family to protect
9 out of 10, you've got a friend, you call the gun.

(chous repeat)

Everybody got a pistol, this must be the NRA
Yeah 'cause when it's time to shine up
You know damn well they're gonna line up
Everybody...

And the philosophy seem to be
At least as near as I can see
When other folks give up theirs, I'll give up mine