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  • Optimize your trips

    This week, I observed a weird tendency (random concentration?) on the information channels I check on the Internet: I saw an increasing number of news about ways to optimize parts of your trips and travels. Trippish: Take weather into account to plan your trips. Farecast: Choose the best time to buy an airplane ticket in…

  • A few days out

    A few days out

    A leopard I shot last year in Kenya In the coming 15 days, I will be travelling in South Africa. The updates to the web site will not stop (it’s marvellous what a little bit of software automation can do!) but don’t count on my active participation (I will not be on line from the…

  • Graffiti, it’s a… fun… crime!

    Graffiti, it’s a… fun… crime!

    Thanks to Neatorama

  • Top 10 infant mortality

    The other day, I was looking at the list of the ten countries most hardly hit by infant mortality (according to the CIA World Fact Book 2005). The top 10 (or should I say Bottom 10) is: Angola (197.8 for 100 births) after a civil war between 1975 and 2002 Afghanistan (163.07 for 100 births)…

  • Lighted bras, a new fashion?

    Lighted bras, a new fashion?

    We previously had some fun with Japanese bras convertible into a small bag in 10 seconds. We were more or less assuming that weird ideas like that had to come from Japan. But the virus has spread much more than initially expected. Here is a company that sells bras that need electrical power because they…

  • Why did the chicken cross the road? Prequel

    Those of you who read my little History (or historiogrpahic) exercise about the old “Why did the chicken cross the road?” joke may remember that did not succeed moving back in time very far because of the limitations of Internet search engines. So, I was concluding that the story was older than 1981. After that,…

  • Statistics for the RSS feed

    I recently checked the log files for my web site roumazeilles.net and I stopped to look at the share of the different tools used by the users of the RSS feeds of the site: my Yahoo! 3.8% * NetVibes.com 3.8% Google 11.5% BlogLines 3.9% NewsGator 3.5% MoreOver 4.6% * Technorati 6.9% * Firefox 34.6% Opera…

  • RSS feed: Now in full glory

    It’s decided! I just set my RSS feeds to “full content”. These feeds allow some people already to browse quickly the contents of the web site without even being connected and allow to be automatically informed of new posts and changes straight from their browsers of some news/feeds aggregating sites likeBlogLines, MyYahoo!, Google, etc. Good…

  • A game for Friday afternoon

    Thanks God It’s Friday! To celebrate this important event of the week, I offer you a special game: throw a ball of paper into the waste basket of your cubicle. It will soon be time to go back home.