From this............ To this......... In opposite directions, 1 hour apart....! This is the region of "mr le marquis" and that's why he's there! Not unusual to ski in the morning, and swim in the Med the afternoon...! Shame I've no form of transport....! Send me a bicycle....please!

This article is about the "Frenchman", but there are "others - on others"! Jump in at:    http://sites.google.com/site/ianwmitchellswebsite/      and see if YOU are there! *************** Europe-"The Frenchman" Gallic flair. That's what one calls it. In the past, the most required tool in any French garage was a hammer, or rather a collection of hammers to match the size of the task. Ridiculously enough, a good hammering often worked (didn't lower the bill) and maybe this very fact was typical of those things which happened to 'non-Gallics' mainly on the paying end, and generally on holiday, which made English people apopleptict, even redder than usual, utterly mad and at a complete loss for words. Germans were seen to go off marching 'goose-step' manner, muttering things that darkly resembled political statements from a while back, Dutch and other northern climate people just didn't understand anything, and preferred...

Pour tous le monde - For everybody - Fuer jede......! (mais je ne suis pas responsable pour les consequences..!) - (but I'm not responsable for the consequences...!)  -  (aber Ich bin nicht verantwoertlich fuer die Konsequenzen...!) *****************             Sign up! Home Resources   Survival Phrases Spanish Phrases French Phrases Italian Phrases Socializing - La vie sociale Tu fais quelque chose de spécial ce week-end ? Are you doing anything exciting this weekend? Je vais en boîte. I'm going clubbing. Tu es libre samedi ? Are you free this Saturday? Ça te dit d'aller au cinéma demain soir ? Do fancy going to the cinema tomorrow night? Désolé, j'ai quelque chose de prévu demain. Un...

Mme KATHLEEN MITCHELL - nee - ODELL 7 March 1947   -   3 March 1993 It's seventeen years now - Il y a dix-sept ans. And I still miss her -  Et elle me manque toujours. (Ian W. Mitchell) (in view of my change of ISP, I'm publishing this article now to avoid problems of Internet connection later)

This is an example of a "created by chance" mosaic from the Programme "John's Background Switcher" (Google and download it). I've started wondering if it's all really "by accident". Many of the screensavers it has produced are just too perfectly positioned, as here. Why is the main back ground picture so perfectly placed...? In his case, I would certainly close my mouth.....! in any case - it's well done!

I found this gem on a site I visit. It amused me and so cheered me up. Hope it does the same for you! If you've got the answer - please let me know.....in a language I can understand! Q: My computer has a 200 GB hard drive. What’s GB stand for? What’s a MB? How much data can my computer hard drive hold? A: If I asked you how many ounces are in a cup, you would be able to say that there are eight ounces in a cup and that would be it. And it should be that way for your hard drive question, right? In a perfect world. We’re talking about computers, remember? Let’s start with a list of prefixes: kilo = meaning 1,000. (one thousand) mega = meaning 1,000,000. (one million) giga = meaning 1,000,000,000 (one billion) tera = meaning 1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion) So in answer to your question: GB is short for Gigabyte. MB is short for Megabyte. With a 200 Gigabyte (GB) hard drive, you have 200 billion bytes of data storage. If you had a 200 Megabyte hard drive, you have 200...

    EN: Just to inform you:  iwmpop (mr le marquis) is changing Internet companies, for telephone and internet, so it's possible in the next few weeks that telephone/internet connexion won't be possible, for short periods. No - sorry - I haven't "kicked it" - not quite! Try again later! ************ FR: Pour vous informer. (iwmpop) mr le marquis est en train de changer serveur d'internet et téléphone, donc c'est possible qu'aucun contact peut être fait de temps en temps, pendant 1 mois ou 2....! Non - désolée - je ne suis pas mort - pas encore - Essayez encore, plus tard....! ************ -- Use search term "iwmpop" with "Google" for other interesting things from mr le marquis "iwmpop"

Okay - it's the weekend. After a couple of weeks extremely "charged" and very life-style changing, possibly an opportunity to think over things - before Monday rings? Apart from the personal things in life, I've also been trying to apply a little bit of logic to this thing called "Linux", and I've figured out quite a bit, starting with the fact that the version they sold me, pre-installed - was so ancient that it wasn'r even supported anymore! Brand new, but almost useless! Only after hours of searching did I manage to get it updated to the latest "SLED" Linux system, which took hours and hours of downloading, installing and uploading and so on.... It may well be supported now, but the support forums aren't great, because all those forum people have already gone over to one of the other "Linux" sustems, notably "SUSE 11", and none of all that applies to my system! Never mind, I'll just have to keep pluggin...

FR:   C'est nouveau...! Si vous allez a ce lien:     http://sites.google.com/site/ianwmitchellswebsite/a-true-story-from-france#googtrans/en/fr     (copier & coller) ou cliquez ici: ENGLISH & FRENCH on vous ouvre une page du Site "iwmpop" avec beaucoup des histoires courte et des liens utiles. La différence est que sur cette page, vous avez tous en Français, et si vous allez avec votre souris sur un morceau du texte, vous pouvez même le regarder en version Anglais! Les "sous-pages" aussi s'ouvreront d'abord en Anglais, mais se changerons automatiquement en Français....! C'est sur, il y a beaucoup des erreurs, car c'est une programme "robot", mais c'est a comprendre. Une petite service pour les visiteurs qui veulent apprendre l'anglais ou le Français! Attention:Cette système ne marche que sur ce lien. ********************************* EN:  It's new, a little service for those of you w...

Weekend, fin semaine, whatever....! And thank goodness! Maybe a little time to try and settle down after all the upheavals of the last two weeks!   All that is behind me now, and on looking back, I feel honoured to have been the subject of occasional "attacks" - little, well-timed and well-proportioned "bites" on the back of my leg - when the service at breakfast time was a little slow, for example, which tended to make me jump almost out of my skin... I reflected just the other day that if ever I were to take another beast on as my responsability (which I'm not going to!) I would be making the same mistake as the time I tried to replace my deceased wife. How on earth can you try to replace things like that...? When you've had 25 years of living with the most exceptional woman, in both terms as a person, and as a wife, it's not possible. Same thing with the beast, When you've had so long with the most intelligent and amazing of creat...

for some time now I've had this free programme called "John's Background Switcher" installed. It's small, inobtrusive, easy and fun! It basically takes, by hazard, a series of images on your PC, and creates a new image using them! some of the results are very unusual and amusing - by accident....sometimes I'm not too sure! I mean, it wasn't me who put the bull's horn just below the illustrious minister's.....! Nor was it me who suggested a link between "Pontin's Holiday Camps" and a North Sea oil rig - somewhat basic and possibly uncomfortable...! Not guilty, but I find it amusing!

I found this thing on one of the sites I visit, and since I'd reflected on the same subject just very recently, I used (with some additions) the text to present you with some facts! *********** Prison vs. Work IN PRISON...you spend the majority of your time in an 8x10 cell. AT WORK...you spend most of your time in a 6x8 cubicle. IN PRISON...you get three meals a day. AT WORK...you only get a break for one meal and you have to pay for it. IN PRISON...you get time off for good behavior. AT WORK...you get rewarded for good behavior with more work. IN PRISON...a guard locks and unlocks all the doors for you. AT WORK...you must carry around a security card and unlock and open all the doors yourself. IN PRISON...you can watch TV and play games. AT WORK...you get fired for watching TV and playing games. IN PRISON...you get your own toilet. AT WORK...you have to share. IN PRISON...they allow your family and friends to visit. AT WORK...you cannot even speak to...

Not been to have a look yet...? Shame really, because there are some amusing things to read, and some useful things to look at! It's all in English!    HERE!             or copy/paste this one:     http://sites.google.com/site/ianwmitchellswebsite/ "iwmpop" - (mr.le marquis du Galipot)     ...

One God's ideas sometimes work in with another one's.......! But the real philosophies are varied.... and there's always an easy way out or to avoid the issue! So - just get on with it - while you can. This week's events recalled this fact to me! Bonne Weekend! (iwmpop) - mr le marquis. - Vauvert,France - 5th February 2010.

http://www.infopackets.com/news/security/2010/20100204_homeland_security_warns_stop_using_internet_explorer_6.htm After days of great sadness, it's a bid to get back to some normality. Here is a page to inform you about Internet Explorer 6. Homeland Security (USA) has now also joined in with a warning about using this browser! Why people would want to is beyond me, like lots of things! Chrome, Firefox, Safari are all better, faster, more usable, more reliable- and cost the same as any version of Internet Explorer, they're all  - FREE! Whilst you're on the page - sign up for your FREE news letters from "info packets.com" - there's always something you don't know about! ************* Subscribe   Remove   |      Free Homepage Deliciously Addictive Tech News Served Daily home archive about top 10 team contact Homeland Security Warns: Stop Using Internet Explorer 6 by  John Lister  on 20100204 @ 10:48AM EST...

After a few days to note the sad news on the first anniversary of the death of Ruth Mitchell-Pitts, my sister, I must again, unfortunately, continue with other sad news. "Granite Oasis" - the cat of iwmpop (mr le Marquis), and of the hermitage has also died. She was relieved of her pain and distress, today - February 3, 2010 at Vauvert, France. This "small beast", who possessed a remarkable character and intelligence, had for some time suffered from kidney malfunction in her 19th year of life. For more than 10 years she had been the faithful companion of mr le Marquis, and her death leaves a gaping hole in his house and his life. When time goes - everything goes with it.  Even after 19 years, it's difficult to understand, as with my wife and sister.  Why things and people who have never harmed a person ....? Why not me,  myself ....? You can find photos of "Granite de l'oasis" by follo...

It's winter, you're snowed in? Well - do something useful for your PC - it'll thank you later! more space "How to.....on my PC (1)" Nothing more annoying than a PC that won't work well - Try some of these tips! They are all used by (iwmPOP) on a regular basis,  so he KNOWS that they work! I'm not making apologies for these simple tips in the eyes of knowledgable PC users because I know there are many, many people out there who AREN'T knowledgable! The list will be added to over the coming periods, so have a look in now and then! Even better, subscribe to this Blog Site to get easier access to individual articles (see "subscribe to this Blog" on the Blog Site)   Nowadays Computers are being produced and sold with ever increasing "Hard Disc" space. It's not uncommon to find PC's with 500GB's of Hard Disk space. For the average user, such amounts are not really required - to give you an idea, my ...