Category: Web sightings

  • Wild trails

    A photography friend’s web site: Sentiers sauvages (Wild trails) where you will find a lot of nice animal pictures. Plenty of birds, but also some pictures taken in Africa including some that may remind you of my own safari to Kenya (this is no random encounter, of course).

  • April fool’s day

    This year’s April fool’s day spoof, and some more…

  • What do you need to start a profitable blog?

    This is more or less the question any blogger asks. This is what a Wired News article tries to answer with the help of Harold Davis you wrote a few books about Google and Google advertising. However, do not expect to make a living out of it right now. His opinion is that you can…

  • Check out my neighbors in meatspace – Super geo-location

    Check out my neighbors in meatspace – Super geo-location

    Click here to know other people living near me (in the physical space) even if there web sites do not link to mine (and I don’t link to them).

  • Webmasters, check your robots.txt

    Webmasters, check your robots.txt

    This little file is used to protect part of your web site against the visits of some automated robots (like the one sent by Google to index the pages of yuor site). The syntax My own web site was checked

  • Reliability Glossary

    This glossary contains brief definitions of terms frequently used in reliability engineering and life data analysis. The purpose of these entries is to provide a quick explanation of the terms in question, not to provide extensive explanations or mathematical derivations. For those desiring such detailed descriptions, links have been provided when possible for more extensive…

  • A bottled PC

    This is probably what happens when an alcoholic sailor meets a mod’ PC geek. The English Metku.net web site shows us the building of a micro PC inside a whisky bottle. Yes, this is no typo: A micro PC made out of very small boards installed inside a whisky bottle. Even if you don’t want…

  • Google pack

    For lazy people, Google prepared a set of free software programs, easy to use and supposed to create some competition for the major software companies (like Microsoft). This is called the Google pack and it works with Windows XP.

  • Web (archives)

    If you are interested in what I found on the web in 2005 and before, just have a look at the original page.