Category: Social issues

  • Protection of your privacy and of your data

    Protection of your privacy and of your data

    You may not have noticed it but European Regulations recently required some significant changes on web sites, in order to make sure that they are respectful of their visitors and -even more importantly- of the privacy of their data. Our web site has been adapting since a few weeks with a few nice changes, including:…

  • My own participation to Emacs history

    My own participation to Emacs history

    A few versions of this text editor (sometimes) loved by many software programmers / Archive of old Emacs versions.

  • For your eyes only: Another 2018 calendar!

    For your eyes only: Another 2018 calendar!

    This time, this is a calendar centered around the eyes of wild animals. Click to see all the pages and buy it.A calendar that you will love watching and which will be watching you. A a calendar right for the hidden ophthalmologist in you.

  • Security on Roumazeilles.net

    Security on Roumazeilles.net

    Minor technical information for those of you who are sensitive to their online safety. One of the recommended steps to a better privacy and safety is using web site under the SSL protocol (accessing them with https:// instead of http://). Now, Roumazeilles.net helps you and can be transparently accessed through both addresses: https://www.Roumazeilles.net/ http://www.Roumazeilles.net/  …

  • Back from Nunavut

    Back from Nunavut

    2016: A cold year where we went to the Arctic North of Canada (in the state of Nunavut, also known as the Inuit country). It was a trip organized by OneOcean Expeditions and that we joined thanks to the help of Polar Cruises: A scientific research vessel from Russia reconverted into an expedition ship, Akademik…

  • Bitcoin: Is it the end?

    Bitcoin: Is it the end?

    The national press (newspapers and TV) regularly come back to Bitcoin, this decentralized currency that some would announce as going to replace all other world currencies. Some also think that the technology solutions included in Bitcoin are the groundwork for all future world finance (Nothing less!) But it may be less nice that that. And…