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  • Happy PI day

    Today is March 14 or 3-14. It’s time to spend time checking my special page with one million digits for PI.

  • Search terms

    Looking into the search terms used by people on the Roumazeilles.net, I had some fun recently. Let’s quickly browse some of the most representative surprising ones: chasseur francais poussiere reflex (in English: French hunter SLR dust): I did not have in mind that we had so many readers interested in photo hunting in the most…

  • Ryan Air has new ideas to charge its customers

    We knew that Ryan Air was an Irish airline able to bring air fares to a very low level. They use all tricks at their disposition to spend as little money as possible. But sometimes they go too far and their latest ideas give a bad press to the whole low-cost airline industry which were…

  • Collisions

    Collisions

    News reaches a British sub and a French sub regardnig the satellite collision last week. *Snort* American and Russian dorks. I nearly rolled on the floor laughing with this one. But, generally speaking, UserFriendly.org is one hell of a good comics web site.

  • One charger for all phones

    One charger for all phones

    Thanks to European Community! It just proposed, no! Announced that they would force the mobile phone manufacturers to all use a single type of battery charger. It’s been years that we all accumulated chargers ready to be abandonned because none is compatible with more than one phone. The EC decided to reduce pollution linked this…

  • How to cut a forest down

    We don’t use this in France (storms are enough to bring a forest to the ground) but here is the real hardware you need to cut down a forest in a few days only: Link to YouTube

  • Affordable private jet

    Affordable private jet

    Is it the crisis, the recession or what? People would like you to think that you can now get a private jet for nearly nothing. Jumpjet is trying to make it more affordable than many business trip tickets Aviation told us about microjets, like those from Eclipse Aviation intended to make it more affordable than…

  • Obama inauguration seating chart

    Obama inauguration seating chart

    It seems that there will be plenty of people to be present during the inauguration of Barrack Obama. Needless to say, most people will not even have a hint about what happens on stage, if they are located as suggested in the following map: Kudos to Tom Toles.

  • Oh! Dogs…

    Dogs, like many other pets, are subject to much interest and present a lot of particular behaviours that can be formed by proper training. So, today, I want you to meet two of my Internet friends of very different behaviours: The dog who could not stop having fun with snow the product of the most…