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  • Ben WILHELMI

    Ben WILHELMI

    Ben Wilhelmi is a photographer I like a lot. He has a nice web site with galleries of powerful safari photos. All his images seem different, but they share an invariable personal requirement for quality.

  • Windows 98: Last available patches

    Windows 98: Last available patches

    With the final real actual end of Windows 98 support by Microsoft in the beginning of Summer 2006, those who are still using this Operating System (the great-grand-mother of the much more expensive Windows Vista) started worrying about how to obtain the needed software patches. For example, what would you do if, needing to re-install…

  • RyanAir solution is copied

    Yesterday, RyanAir was offering a radical solution to the terrorist threats in planes. The idea is catching up.

  • 6 steps to a web site

    If you want to publish a web site, you may be interested by the following series of articles I wrote about how to quickly create a full-fledged web site using WordPress. Get a domain name Rent web publishing space Connect web space and domain name Configure the Apache server Install WordPress Call the search engines…

  • The 1,000,000 Google pages meme

    A meme is a form of idea that propagates almost by itself as if it had its own life (possibly undergoing modifications and evolution). The basic principle has been first described by Richard Dawkins in his world-famous book “The selfish gene” where he draws a clear parallel between gene and meme. I had previously described…

  • On the Internet, Nobody Knows You’re a Dog

    I really love this sentence that says so much about the freedom and the dangers on the Internet. The above cartoon by Peter Steiner has been reproduced from page 61 of July 5, 1993 issue of The New Yorker, (Vol.69 (LXIX) no. 20) only for academic discussion, evaluation, research and complies with the copyright law…

  • Milestones in pro blogging

    Blog-Republic.com/ has an interesting article by Darren about what should be considered as Realistic milestones of professional blogging success. It’s setting (or asserting) what you, the serious blogger, should expect in order to reach more and more serious levels of blogging. I agree completely with the figures (for example, 1000-5000$ of annual earnings as a…

  • A flower for a web site

    A flower for a web site

    Sometimes, technique will give bend towards art. I found a web site that computes a graphical representation of a web site structure. It’s beautiful enough to surprise you. You can click on the thumbnails to see the flowers in their full bloom. Roumazeilles.net Sirenomelia.org SpamAnti.net lexyk.com There’s everything here: Complexity, groupings, organisation, contents. But this…

  • Science in Science-Fiction

    Sci-Fi usually includes a lot of science. It has sometimes been said that it is mostly bad science, but it is science anyway. The serious scientists of the Sci-Fi Science web site give us a lot of details about what we will find or what we should notice in famous SciFi novels and movies. Examples:…