Entries from February 2006

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Aug 21
   Vintage! This is a random post. The year was 2007...

Distracted

In a last minute miracle, category 5 hurricane Dean slammed into a sparsely populated area of the Yucatan, as the most intense Atlantic storm to make landfall in the last two decades! I think even Stace down in Belize is ok, or at least I hope so. Stace, are you there? Little Cayman suffered minor damage, some docks have been washed away by the storm surge. Bis repetita. Grand Cayman seems to have suffered more on the East End, probably from the seas too, the counterclockwise spinning storm having passed south of the island...

The overall of the site is almost complete. Most galleries have been upgraded with Lightbox 2 for a more uniform look; I’m still working on the entry page. I’ve just been playing with a few HDR photos but nothing came out of them and I just couldn’t resolve myself to post them. I’m too distracted. A new day is dawning to the East. Fall seems upon us. At last. Great things are in the making, the kind legends are made of. Dragons and skeletons are flying around me on a daily basis, but so are fairies and magicians. Abe is bored. The Vancouver colors have dimmed temporarily, it seems, but the orange hues of fall are still too far into the future...

As so often noticed, time recoils on itself, seemingly slowing down to a halt before snapping forward like a snake in action. It’s the calm before the storm, except the storm will be welcomed. It’s a time for pacing back and forth. But the ride matters as much as the destination. Every minute should be enjoyed. I’m so distracted...

 

2007-08-21 05:49 • Posted in Schtroumpfissime: 4 Comments » Toggle display • Reply
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Feb 7

Across the Strait of Georgia

I miss the ocean. I miss the sound of waves out my window and the silent presence of an infinity of water at my back door. I miss the familiar vibration of a boat’s hull slicing through calm seas, and the hum of engines, and the crackling of the radio. I miss looking up at the sky to anticipate nature’s moods and outrun squalls.

So I offered myself a boat ride. I hopped on the Tsawwassen - Swartz Bay ferry and went to Victoria.

Dures extrémités où je me vois réduis. **

[** Les Fourberies de Scapin. Molière]

Mais qu’allais-je faire dans cette galère ?

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2006-02-07 19:38 • Posted in Photoblogs: No comments yet »  Post one!
Feb 2

"Les aventures d'un GO désorganisé" sur Google Book Search

Google is still constantly innovating. Not satisfied with being the number one search engine, they have launched many other projects and services, all of them as successful as the main Google is. Among these, their Gmail webmail which has become my one and only email, and the fantastic Google Earth providing worldwide satellite photo coverage through computer based software.

One of the newcomers is Google Books. Google has undertaken the gargantuesque task of scanning books and making them available to internet searches by titles, authors, publishers and... content! Yes, you read this right, content too. One can now do a Google Book Search for a specific line, paragraph or quote and be given a reference for the book, and in most cases a preview of the page containing the search terms!

Of course, this will probably take years to complete. And Google can only freely index the content of public domain books, for obvious copyright reasons. But if the publisher and/or author submit their book(s) and give their agreement, Google will index their work and make it available to searches, while restricting the previewing feature to a few pages.

That’s what I did for « Les aventures d’un GO désorganisé » and it was just recently indexed by Google, meaning that you can now go to Google Book Search and if you do a search for the expression « oeufs roses migrateurs de baleine », you will actually get a search result for the relevant page of the book!

Granted, the process isn’t quite perfect yet and some letters seem to get distorted by the scanning. But what an extraordinary start!

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2006-02-02 20:42 • Posted in Cool: No comments yet »  Post one!
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