Some time ago I set up a blog for my mother's pub, Naklar in Rome.
Here is a taste of what goes on over there:

..my mother on the left, with some freaky glasses and an equally freaky mask that she bought recently on her trip to Japan 8)
So, next time someone wants to make fun of me, please keep in mind "where" I come from !

Speaking of blogger. Because I publish the blog on a custom domain, I use the custom domain option in Blogger which uses FTP access to the site I host through a separate provider.
Apparently the FTP feature has been broken for a while now and it's a well known open issue.
In theory Blogger (Google) should be able to tame that kind of errors, in practice it's really not safe to rely on those kind of services. I should have setup another blog with Drupal, but instead I figured that it was going to be easier for my mother and her friends to use Blogger with their GMail accounts.. and now we're stuck with a shaky service !

bha

I'm back... ただいま〜！ (tadaimaaaaaaaa !)

I arrived Friday afternoon. Bd weather in Tokyo. I decided to take the Limousine Bus because next train was 20 minutes later.
Bad idea, because with the rain came traffic and the bus took a while to eventually take me in front of some hotel, instead than in front of a train station.

Arizona was pretty deserted 8)
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