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  • Vista is late. We know why.

    Gary Krakow, columnist at MSNBC has tried the Microsoft Windows Vista Beta 2. It is fair to say that his report is shooting Vista down. Essentially, Vista is nice but it is a nightmare to install. You can expect that to be a proof of instability and a reason for added delays at delivering the…

  • “Porn is better than sex” say British men

    With such a title I should be ready for some flak. But this is just what announces a Neilsen Netratings survey commissioned by the Independent on Sunday. There, you will learn that the United Kingdom is fast becoming the best market for Internet pornography thanks to a phenomenal growth touching – Yes ! – women…

  • ThePirateBay.org: Servers seized by police

    ThePirateBay.org: Servers seized by police

    The world biggest indexation site for BitTorrent contents, ThePirateBay.org, would consider itself totally immune from actions from copyright holders associations (like the American RIAA and MPAA) because of its geographical location in Sweeden. As a matter of fact, in this Scandinavian country indexing contents (showing where to find them and not providing them by yourself)…

  • Is Google the leader?

    The answer is an obvious YES after the recent Comscore Networks report. It appears that after nine consecutive months of progress, Google is now reaching 50% of all searches on the Internet. The competition is far behind.

  • Choose your WordPress visits statistics

    Choose your WordPress visits statistics

    Early on, the priority of a serious blogger becomes to confirm factually the number and the origin of the visits to her web site (usually, this is the first step to optimize the paying advertisment). In order to fulfill this goal, several management packages may be found. I tested several of them (with WordPress, even…

  • Al Qaeda may not be using video games to recruit terrorists

    While the American Congress saw earlier this month a video seemingly proving that extreme muslim militants used modified American video games to recruit kids and teenagers in the fight against the great American Satan (Reuters news), it appears that this was a kind of hoax. As a matter of fact, we just learned that the…

  • Is Canon leaving film cameras?

    Is Canon leaving film cameras?

    That is what can be infered from a Reuters UK news article. After other firms (like Nikon, most prominently) who have already left this dwindling market, Canon would be considering it. At least, there is some lack of precision since the news bit has been modified by the authors after first publication. What was very…

  • It was Halloween in Paris

    It was Halloween in Paris

    A few images I shot in the streets of Paris during the 2005 Halloween celebration organized by an association of shop keepers in the Guy Moquet quarter. The costumes were quite interesting and the acting was very lively. Click on the thumbnails below to open the larger image. Real fun! If you know who the…

  • Pentax goes blur-free

    As many camera makers now, Pentax is reaching for technology that provides the promise of blur-free images. While Canon and Nikon aimed at stabilized lenses for their SLR cameras, Pentax chose an approach more similar to what Konica Minolta initiated with a mobile CCD sensor that is moved slightly by magnetic forces according to information…

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