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News and editorial on life from the south of France, a regular series on how to move here and some random musings too.

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  • A headlong dive in price in the netbook market

    Posted on Wednesday May 13th, 2009 at 03:15 in technology, computing

    I know that computers are supposed to go down in price on a regular basis but the drops recently seem even more extreme than usual unless, of course, it’s just me keeping more of an eye on them than normal. For instance, the Acer Aspire One tha...

  • Where did all the modular laptops go?

    Posted on Sunday May 10th, 2009 at 04:14 in technology, shopping, computing

    Not so long ago just about every company manufacturing portable computers seemed to offer a whole raft of options with the basic model so you could have one or two batteries, or you could have a CD drive (’twas pre-DVD then) instead of one of t...

  • Aren’t diet pills confusing?

    Posted on Thursday January 15th, 2009 at 11:24 in technology, medical, society, relocating

    Now that I’ve started thinking about going down the pill route to jump start the transition to a trimmer me, I’m all confused! OK, so fat burners are presumably about speeding up the use of fat within your body. Easy, though sometimes wit...