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Month: July 2006

  • Ban the standby button in UK!

    Her Majesty the Queen Elisabeth II and her royal subjects take energy savings very seriously indeed. They noticed (in a document recently published by the Energy Review) that electrical appliances in sleep mode consume 8% of domestic energy. Let’s admit that this is impressive and tackling with waste cannot be a bad idea. What’s the…

  • WordPress statistics – Follow-up (Google Analytics)

    WordPress statistics – Follow-up (Google Analytics)

    I previously presented here my opinion about several tools to collect statistics for a web site (Alexa.com, Performancing metrics, Webalyzer). Then, I started by writing about the existence of Google Analytics, the still-in-beta-test offer from the American search engine giant. But I could not test it because Google did not provide an invitation to the…

  • Pirate party, 1, 2, 3

    There was already a Pirate Party in Sweeden (along with ThePirateBay.org): Piratpartiet. But things are speeding up neatly in those days with the appearance of two French-speaking parties: In France, le Parti Pirate prepares actively the Presidential elections of next year. In Belgium, le Parti Pirate. But, of course, this is only part of it…

  • This is not filthy, this is not porn

    And I am true to my word. Despite what could be your first reaction, there is nothing unsafe here for your children. There is nothing filthy here. Or, how is it possible to misunderstand something if we do not look long enough. [This is safe for work].

  • Intel Core 2 Duo, what performance?

    The new multicore processors from Intel just arrived. They are supposed to offer exceptional performance (with two computing cores in a single package) for an outstanding price. Model Frequency Bus L2 cache Price Core 2 Extreme X6800 2.93GHz 1066MHz 4MB $999 Core 2 Duo E6700 2.66GHz 1066MHz 4MB $530 Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4GHz 1066MHz…

  • Nature photo, from Norway

    Nærfoto (Bjørn Rørslett) is the web site of a nature photographer. You will not find landscapes from Nordic Norway, but colorful images that strike the eye. A cool whiff of air in the middle of Summer.

  • Win98 is really dead!

    After long years of operation, Windows 98 is officially dead today (11 July 2006). As a matter of fact, this is not news and Microsoft was slowly reducing the efforts and even in June they refused to patch a security issue arguing that it would be too much effort (and that they couldn’t care less).…

  • Being rich can be difficult

    Being rich can mean that you can’t find your soul mate. Being rich can mean that everybody is running after your money and nobody’s looking at your inner heart. Finding a mate thus becomes awfully difficult. Here comes the solution: MillionaireMatch.com. You’re rich, very rich, filthy rich. You can’t find a good match. You need…

  • Crouching tiger and hidden piglet

    Absolute photo fun and weird nature failure in a Thai zoo, here comes Sai Mai, female tiger of two years initially fed by a pig and brought with piglets.