Month: January 2009
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This is our brain
Using a Magnetic resonance imaging (RMI) technique, researchers have been able to represent graphically our human brain in a beautiful display. Source: ScienceBlogs/Corpus Callosum & PLOS biology.
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Ideas for a better web site
If you want to build a web site, or a better web site, I am starting a series of short small ideas about how to improve a web site or a blog with small tasks. One idea, one improvement per week. This is in the “easy idea” category of my other web site: Y Want…
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Replace MS-Word for free
I often advise downloading the free OpenOffice.org desktop suite to fully replace MS-Office (why should you pay for a Microsoft product that is leading you to spending more and more to get a suite that is more and more difficult and incompatible with time? Just dump Word and Excel for a better solution). But, a…
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Oh! Dogs…
Dogs, like many other pets, are subject to much interest and present a lot of particular behaviours that can be formed by proper training. So, today, I want you to meet two of my Internet friends of very different behaviours: The dog who could not stop having fun with snow the product of the most…
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The nazi time traveller [movie]
This Hungarian short movie is in English. I recommend waiting for the end (after 11 minutes).
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New printers at R.net
2009 starts with some new equipment in Roumazeilles.net home: An HP LaserJet 1005. The lowest B&W laser I could find at HP (I am faithful to this brand even if the last LaserJet 1022 failed suddenly far before the end of its normal useful life). It’s a Windows-based printer used on the local network, but…
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Inga Nielsen
Fantasy landscapes built by artist Inga Nielsen (with the help of TerraGen). Source: Inga Nielsen.
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Check your security procedure!
Even more when you unload a tank rail car. If you let the hot gazes cool down into the tank, here what can happen. Always check the security valves, or be ready to pay the price: $22,000 to $80,000 used (but usable). LiveLeak link