I've finally finished
downloading and converting all the pictures from the wedding (more than 300 in
total!).
That took me some time because I had to correct the exposure of some of the
pictures, where the flash wasn't strong enough for example, or change the
white balance to have a more natural skin tone, etc.
There are 2 sections so far: pictures at the city
hall, in Mérignac, where the actual ceremony took place and
pictures at the Château
de Barbe, where the dinner was.
I'm still waiting for other people to send me their pictures, so that I can
include them in a last section.
I'll never say it enough: that was such a great day, great party, great friends! Thanks to everyone for having made this day so beautiful for Alain and Clotilde.
I wish Eiko and I will have a great wedding ceremony and party too next year.
I'm just back from my brother's
wedding last weekend (well, a few days have passed since then, but that's what
it took to recover!).
It went beautifully well: the weather was great (the only sunny day in almost 2 weeks!), the food was delightful and the chateau where the celebration took place was just wonderful.
I took more than 300 pictures, but the final version of the web page
will only contain some of them. I'll take care of that page when I'm back in
Japan and have more time to work on it.
In the meantime, here is a picture
of the happy couple that I like very much.
As far as I am concerned, I landed in Florence (Firenze) in Italy today where Eiko and I will spend a few days to visit the museums and cathedrals, treasures of Italy.
As a side note, it's been a while since I've been to a country where I was not able to speak any word of the language. I found that even more frustrating than what I remembered from my dark days in Japan, especially since I can read most of the Italian, as it's very close to latin and therefore French...
I have a few pictures of Bruno taken with my cell phone, but I was always hesitating to put them up on the web, which would have been a shame if I hadn't because I just find them too funny!
Picture 1: Fashion show
Bruno is wearing an Etrali T-shirt, while he's been thrashing Equant/France
Telecom the whole day for the last 6 months (Etrali is a branch of France
Telecom).
Not too mention it's also very fashionable and very cool to
wear free T-shirts given by providers!
Picture 2: The Hair Odissey part I
Somehow, Bruno has decided to save some money from his hair dresser (since his
dog Boudicca's hair dresser is also more expensive than his!) and let Li cut
his hair... That's how the Hair Odissey started.
The first attempt was not too bad, I must say... a bit short but well, Bruno
was still recognizable!
Picture 3: The Hair Odissey part II
After last time's success, the next step was to try the electric shaver... As
you can see by yourself, Li was not as successful as before ;-)
What's next? Don't miss the amazing adventures of stupendous Bruno and his Fashion Odissey... all details told on this weblog!
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Note that Bruno still remains a charming person, even if Gaelle doesn't seem to be especially comfortable on this picture. Bah, babies just can't tell what Dandyism really is, when it's incarned in Bruno ;-)
I went to Seb and Candice's place to see the latest little one:
Gaelle.
Sawato-san and Kamo-san were also there and Kawai-san had brought his family
and his little son Ryohei, only 1 year and 8 months old, but already so
big!
Have a look at the pictures and use about a dozen of kawaiiiiiii (cute !) !
One of our friend (the sister of somebody who used to work with us, actually) had a fascinating show at 'Jazz is', a jazz bar in Kannai.
I'm finally done with the migration of the homepage ! All the pages should
have the same common layout, which can be easily changed from the css file.
I actually spent quite a lot of time doing this (the whole week end,
basically). The main reason being that I also wanted to clean the dirty code
generated by Frontpage or GoLive which was not consistent from one page to
another, making the website very difficult to maintain.
I also had to run some perl scripts to automatically change the individual
html pages for some sections (more than 500 pages I think), which would have
taken me way too long if I had to do it manually.
Plus, when it is possible to make it automatic, I can minimize the risks of mistyping something for example (although I was a little worried when I realized I had made a mistake in the original template and already uploaded 400 pages ...)
I still need to work on the colors, the background images, etc. but once I'm settled, it shouldn't take too long to update since everything is centralized.
First of all, Happy New Year !
For the first picture of this year, I've chosen to put an adorable picture of Caroline and Simon, comfortably sitting in a sofa. I can't wait to go back to France and see all my friends again and notice how Simon has changed !
I added some pictures I couldn't add before because they had been taken by a regular camera and the film was still not printed (or the pictures were still not scanned ...). However, I didn't want to miss them because they show some of my best friends: Rudy, Joachim and his lovely family. See them in the Friends section.
