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Month: February 2007

  • Do you make these 10 mistakes in a conversation?

    “Can you improve your conversation skills? Certainly. It might take a while to change the conversation habits that’s been ingrained throughout your life, but it is very possible.” The rest of the article is on The Positivity Blog.

  • Valentine’s day

    Valentine’s day

    Source: XKCD.

  • A short break to prepare the US Presidential Campaign

  • The most expensive ads on Google

    Google sells advertising. There is some of it on my web site pages. Normally, as a web site owner, I don’t really look at the price ads are sold (I don’t buy ads to publicize and market my web site). But, nonetheless, I was curious about the price ads are sold to Google customers. More…

  • Azureus configuration

    In the world of P2P, Bittorrent is clearly the protocol of choice for big file transfers. This is true for videos (pirated or not), for GNU/Linux dsitribution CD-ROMs, for collections of photographic images, etc. Among the Bittorrent-compatible P2P software applications, Azureus is clearly the one that receives the favors of the greatest public. It is…

  • The complete work of Charles Darwin online

    The complete work of Charles Darwin online

    The largest collection of Darwin’s writings ever assembled. This is the promise from the University of Cambridge. With the help of the Charles Darwin trust, they are assembling more than 50,000 searchable text pages and 40,000 images of both publications and handwritten manuscripts from the father of the theory of Evolution. Unfortunately, all is not…

  • Designing a 3.2 giga-pixel camera for astronomy

    Today, this is not a record image that we show, but the publication of a scientific paper about the design of an camera for astronomy to be installed in a giant telescope (8.4m), probably in Chile. The 3.2 giga-pixel LSST camera will produce approximately half a petabyte of archive images every month. These data need…

  • 1 Tera-Byte

    Minor event here: With today’s purchase of a Seagate 400 GB SATA-2 hard drive (in an external USB-2/eSATA enclosure), the accumulated storage went over the 1 Tera-Byte limit (1024 GB). And I can still envision myself seriously thinking about buying my first hard disc – it was a 500 kB external disc for an Apple…

  • Canon 40D: This is real science fiction

    This is official now! The Canon EOS 40D, that some are awaiting with strong impatience as the sequel to the successful Canon EOS 20D and 30D, should be classified as science-fiction more than photography gadgetry. At least this is our opinion when looking at the scoop from Samuele Silva: Rumours are sometimes more than funny.…