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Monday, March 30th, 2009Every day, I am grateful to my parents for having made it possible for my brother and me to learn both French and English at an early age. Thus I was lucky enough to have learned at a young age the primary language in which science is published, a huge advantage for my career choice.
I […]
Yahoo! Photos to shut down
Wednesday, July 11th, 2007I worry a lot about the digitization of our lives. Sure, digital photos are so much easier to store and edit and transport, but what happens if the hard disk dies? It’s as though you just threw all your physical photos into a giant bonfire. Only, you know, hard disks dying happen a lot more […]
Kurt Vonnegut dead - So it goes
Thursday, April 12th, 2007Oh dear. I just learned that Kurt Vonnegut died yesterday. He was one of my favourite writers. Now I’m going to go and find his books and read them again.
Il y a de ces jours
Thursday, September 14th, 2006Mes sympathies aux familles en deuil et aux victimes.
Post-mortem electricity
Tuesday, September 12th, 2006Yesterday, I was browsing through a local Coles bookstore when I saw that they had placed Jean-Paul Sartre’s Being and Nothingness in the New Age section. Huh.
I suggest that somebody go wrap some copper coil around Sartre’s coffin, because the speed at which he must be spinning in there ought to be perfect for producing […]
3D + 2D = Hard to use
Tuesday, June 20th, 2006While I was on an enforced holiday, I was reflecting on the similarity of many MMOGs, and in particular that whole pseudo-middle ages, magical elfs, nasty dragons theme that is so popular with game developers.
Wouldn’t it be nice, I thought, if we had something with a theme that was somewhat original? Something that hadn’t been […]
Programming is the new literacy
Monday, May 15th, 2006Coming in to work on the bus this morning, I was seated next to a guy who was programming on his laptop. This got me to thinking that I really ought to buckle down and learn about Ruby on Rails and AJAX.
It was then that it struck me: programming is the new literacy. At first, […]
