This film looks and feels like a Japanese production. Many of the techniques are lifted directly from Japanese cinema so, right from the get-go, it surprises by being a French director and screenwriter in a majorly European production with support from France’s Canal+, Italy’s Rai Uno and several other countries’ involvement. Given the subject matter,Continue reading “Review: Onoda: 10,000 nights in the Jungle, dir. Arthur Harari, 2021”
Author Archives: Ben Vost
Editing your keyboard, Windows (10)
Update 231026: A new update adding “Δ” I live in France but communicate mainly in English. However, I do need to write in French on a regular basis and so to get the accents French requires like ç, è, û and à, along with non-French characters like ß, °,©, ®, ñ, ¿ and ¡ alongContinue reading “Editing your keyboard, Windows (10)”
Battling Amazon
Today, my Prime membership finished (or so I thought). Prime is very difficult to cancel. There’s no obvious button for it and certainly searching through your various account pages doesn’t show one up so I did the only thing left for me to do. I started cancelling the cards associated with the account. I didContinue reading “Battling Amazon”
TEFL
In these covid times, you’re never sure if things are going to happen to the schedule you expect. For the last three months, I’ve been trying to enroll on a course to earn a TEFL qualification (Teaching English as a Foreign Language; not to be confused with TOEFL, which is Test Of English as aContinue reading “TEFL”
Apprendre l’anglais aux enfants
Généralement, les leçons d’anglais pour les enfants se déroulent sur une heure de temps. Avec mon expérience d’enseignant, je constate que durant cette heure, les enfants perdent leur attention, s’ennuyent et pensent à d’autres choses.Ma méthode est de faire des leçons qui sont plus courtes, plus ludique, pour plus d’efficacité. Ceci en utilisant les jeuxContinue reading “Apprendre l’anglais aux enfants”
Living more sustainably
Over the last few years, I have been attempting to live more in tune with the planet’s needs. I haven’t given up meat or fish, but I certainly eat a lot less of both, and I gave up prawns about 15 years ago. I still make use of single-use plastic where I have no otherContinue reading “Living more sustainably”
Slow file copying in a Windows 10 network
A friend of mine was lamenting today that his network file copies were taking minutes to complete. Initially, I thought it was just a case of 21C impatience, but he showed me that files that only weighed in at several hundred KB were taking up to a minute to transfer to his other machine. ItContinue reading “Slow file copying in a Windows 10 network”
Using a laptop without even opening it
For the time being, I have no main computer. It is being repaired, which means I need to rely on my laptop to work. I have my monitors, wired network connection, keyboard and mouse just sitting idle so I wanted to make use of them with the laptop. It’s easy enough to hook them up,Continue reading “Using a laptop without even opening it”
WordPress static front page without the scroll
Some people don’t like to have to scroll too far to get to the footer of their static site and by default the WordPress twenty seventeen theme adds extra pages. The answer provided by the kind guy at WPColt is to add a few lines to functions.php to increase or decrease the number of sectionsContinue reading “WordPress static front page without the scroll”
GMail issue
The old GMail calendar Okay, it’s only a little thing…I am subscribed to NASA’s email feed for when the ISS passes overhead for me. I’ve been subscribed and I’ve viewed the ISS loads of times (it has been noted on my calendar 34 times for this year so far, and I’ve been on the mailingContinue reading “GMail issue”