Technology opinions and digital photography
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Step 1: Get a domain name
If you want to create a new web site, the first step is to get a domain name. For the example I’ll use in the coming tutorial, Lexyk.com is the name of the domain I’ll use for a dictionary web site I am currently creating. Without it, no visitor will ever find your web site…
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Images of the day – Visit to the park
Today, I took a few hours to test my new tele-lens Minolta 300mm f/4. Those few images were taken in the Park of the Castle of Grouchy in the middle of the day while I was looking for little birds (I never caught): Finally, here are some very static images from the underbrush.
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Upgraded to WordPress v2.0.4
Latest news from the web site inside mechanism: I just upgraded to the latest revision of WordPress (v2.0.4). A more stable, less bugged, more secure version. I thought you’d like to know that I keep security upgrades in mind to protect both the site and its contents (including your personal data).
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Telelens, my new buy
I am quite proud of buying it: To add to my own little collection of photo equipment, I just bought a superb second-hand Minolta APO G High-Speed 300mm f/4 which will be mostly used on my Konica-Minolta Dynax/Maxxum 7D (but presented here on my old Minolta Dynax 9xi). Quite heavy (I don’t know how people…
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Science in Science-Fiction
Sci-Fi usually includes a lot of science. It has sometimes been said that it is mostly bad science, but it is science anyway. The serious scientists of the Sci-Fi Science web site give us a lot of details about what we will find or what we should notice in famous SciFi novels and movies. Examples:…
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Thanks to all visitors
Really! In 2005, you had been 80,000 visitors. But I just had a look at my statistics and it seems that in the last year (from August 2005 to July 2006), you were more than 200,000 to jump into my web site. Is it that the Internet is getting larger (more users mean more visitors…
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West African black rhinos declared extinct
A scientific study recently suggested that these animals that were present in West Africa no longer exist in the wild and the species went extinct in this part of the world. Actually, the expected last animals failed to be found in Northern Cameroon. Consequently, the West African black rhino sub-species has been tentatively declared extinct.…
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MSDN is free (to download)
This monstrous library choke full of information for the developer of Windows applications and (preferably, but not only) using Microsoft development tools was – up to now – only available in a paying subscription. This was a strong limitation for those developers not serious enough to invest in such a tool. Microsoft decided to change…
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