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Check out my photos

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I gave up waiting for Zooomr to come back online and have put some of my photos up on Flickr. I found out that using “sets” lets me organise the photos in the correct order. I spent a while geotagging my photos. That means putting the photos on a map, basically. Still not 100% sure that Flickr’s what I want (especially seeing that you can only create three sets if you don’t pay).

I found a tool that looks like it will be able to synchronise that information back to the original files on my computer, which will be very useful.

One of the problems I encountered though was that when I searched for locations on the map (which uses Yahoo! Maps, Yahoo! owning Flickr now) they sometimes didn’t show up. But if I used Google Maps, there was no problem. My understanding is that Zooomr’s geotagging is based on Google Maps, so that is good.

Just have to wait until they get Zooomr back up and running.

Where is Brian?

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Gad Elmaleh, a French stand-up comic and movie star, did a show in Lyon that’s on DVD now, called L’autre, c’est moi. All the kids have seen it here. Well, most of them. In it, he recounts how at school one of the first sentences he learnt was “Where is Brian?” He and his classmates respond “Brian is in the kitchen.” Brian also has a sister. “Jenny is the sister of the Brian. Jenny is in the batttthhhhroom.”

I thought I would see if that old-fashioned way of teaching English still works in the 21st century. It turns out it does.

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I drew a house on the board with a kitchen and bathroom and a lounge and a bedroom. I realised that it’s actually a good way to teach prepositions.

Mont Blanc

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This is the view from the top of l’Aiguille du Midi above Chamonix-Mont-Blanc.

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Somewhere in that photo is Mont Blanc, the highest mountain in Europe. It looks like a painting. Everything was so white. And the air (at 3800m) was so thin I was having trouble catching my breath. Even walking one set of stairs became difficult.