Technology opinions and digital photography

  • Masai Mara – Elephants

    Masai Mara – Elephants

    This year (2006), we find a lot of elephants in the Masai Mara National Park. Most of the specialists say that this comes from the drought that led these big mammals to group in relatively protected areas. Female elephant Elephant and impala Elephant and impala (Dumbo is free for real!)

  • WordPress, keywords are impossible (are they?)

    Keywords are not naturally generated by WordPress. But, if you know how, you can easily correct this. I will not let you tell me that keywords are useless in modern search engine. It is more or less true, but not totally true. Their lack in the header of an HTML page is not without effect…

  • Traffic ranking – Alexa is watching us

    You certainly already noticed the appearance in those last days of the following button in the margins of this web site: This is a feature of the Alexa search engine that provides rankings, user opinions (with Amazon) and visit statistics for web sites (web stats). Started with a 1,533,587th position (an average over the last…

  • What do you need to start a profitable blog?

    This is more or less the question any blogger asks. This is what a Wired News article tries to answer with the help of Harold Davis you wrote a few books about Google and Google advertising. However, do not expect to make a living out of it right now. His opinion is that you can…

  • Masai Mara – Grey heron

    Masai Mara – Grey heron

    Grey Heron, Mara river

  • Masai Mara – Lions

    Masai Mara – Lions

    Lions are everywhere in the plains of the Masai Mara. You bump into them after every tree. Generally, they are sleeping in the shade (their days are spread between 1% hunting, 1% eating and 98% sleeping after eating or before hunting). My best images follow… Big males The king of the animals, Simba (in Swahili),…

  • Check out my neighbors in meatspace – Super geo-location

    Check out my neighbors in meatspace – Super geo-location

    Click here to know other people living near me (in the physical space) even if there web sites do not link to mine (and I don’t link to them).

  • Active maintenance for your PC

    Never forget (opposite to my own experience) that your PC needs to be cleaned a little soemtimes. For me, the fan of my Athlon XP 2600+ CPU saw so much dust accumulated during the last months that the CPU temperature had progressively climbed from about 50°C up to more than 74°C. A mere duster, a…

  • Bag contents for my photo safari (follow up)

    Bag contents for my photo safari (follow up)

    After the first article written just before I left for the Masai Mara photo safari, it was time to check on those comments and to see if they still held after the test of practical experience.


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