Daily Archives: 30 Jan ’09

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Connectivity Corner, La Troïka The boxes containing all the technology are hidden underneath the cupboard. A VoIP telephone line is available for incoming calls.

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Instructions for the Fon WiFi Access Point at La Troïka, Morzine The Internet arrives in La Troïka! Access point: FON_troika 1 day = €4.905 days = €14.9015 mins = freemorznet.com = free The telephone here is not normal: - you can’t call out - you … Read More

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Bed

Finally I got the GrandStream 486 talking through the Orange Livebox to the Faelix Asterisk VoIP exchanges in Manchester. In the end it involved setting the DMZ of the Livebox to point to the GrandStream. Now a Manchester-prefix number from SIPgate calls straight through into … Read More

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Chores

My Duret Free 180 is waxed and some minor damage to the tail of one of my Volkl P30s has been repaired, all again thanks to the good people at Caribou Sport. The laundry is done and dry. The phone line has been secured. The … Read More

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Laverie: a conversation in French in which I learned that, unlike the English idiom, the French do not wish each other a "good afternoon"

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Duret Free 180 and Volkl P30 Back from wax and service at Caribou Sport

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Over billions of years, on a unique sphere, chance has painted a thing covering of life – complex, improbable, wonderful, and fragile. Suddenly we humans, (a recently arrived species no longer subject to the checks and balances inherent in nature), have grown in population, technology, … Read More

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Early Start

Time for Sjek to leave and go to Geneva. I have a ton of chores to do: laundry, cleaning, dusting, washing, tidying, packing, sorting, storing. I hope I manage to get it all done in time for a few hours’ sleep tonight!