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  • 2006 ig-Nobel prizes (From smell of human feet to inaudible telephone ringtones)

    The Annals of Improbable Research (a magazine dedicated to the public celebration of the research that makes people LAUGH and then THINK) have organized the 2006 ig Nobel awards. The categories are less rigid than their equivalent in the more presentable cousin of the family (the Oh! so dull Nobel prizes) since there are established…

  • BitComet v0.7x configuration

    BitComet v0.7x configuration

    As the PC I use to run BitComet is rather old (it’s still running under Windows 98) it is easy to believe that this configuration is a good basis that will work on any small machine and old configuration for BitTorrent. Cet article traduit en Français Of course, it would also work very well on…

  • Fujitsu and Hitachi caught in the Sony battery fiasco

    This time, this is Hitachi who announces a global recall of its Sony-manufactured batteries. Only 16,000 this time, after Fujitsu (287,000 units this week), Dell (more than 4 millions in August) or Apple.    Acer (one of the world’s largest laptop PC manufacturer who let a number of others re-brand their machines) is allegedly talking…

  • Flight patterns over North America

    Flight patterns over North America

    It’s been years that I was looking again for images I found and used on September 11, 2001. They were showing flight patterns over the United States of America (the way commercial airline flights criss-cross the country). Here are the animations showing the enourmous density of planes in the US of A skies. Flight Patterns

  • Outdoor photography – web sites

    Outdoor photography is a great activity. It associates going outside in the wild (or at least in the free nature) and our passion for photography. But it can be also prepared on the web. This is the reason I collected a few good web addresses for web sites taking seriously the outdoor photographer needs and…

  • Internationale Zurich Gruppe – it is illegal in Sweeden

    IMPORTANT: After my precedent post about the Internationale Zurich Gruppe, it appears that a very important development happened a few days ago with a Warning (“mise en garde”) produced by the very official Finansinspektionen, from Sweeden. If you look at the comments back into my original post, you’ll see that people are having a very…

  • Javascript to reload a web page

    I recently had a little problem to solve: I want to update (very) quickly the display of a web page. For this kind of job, there is usually the easy solution to write the command in the headers of the HTML page using the META REFRESH tag, but this is acceptable only if you meet…

  • China attempted to blind U.S. satellites with laser

    Yes! They are shooting very high-power laser flashes at the American satellites in the alleged intention to blind the spy satellites (temporarily or permanently). Nothing is really said as to whether they succeeded. Source: DefenseNews.

  • Local news: The lifts broke down

    I live in a 30-level building with fourn (4) independent lifts to reach the 200+ flats. Unfortunately, today (after several days of incidents), the last of the lifts broke down. No way to get in or out (apart from climbing by foot 28-level stairs)… Grrrrr! I hate Otis for not being bright at repairing those.

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