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Over a year ago, in July 2015, inside my house at Gamone, I suffered a severe accident. After consuming a little too much tasty white wine i...

Once upon a time, Flash was the coolest kid on the block. I worked hard to master it. Most of my old websites of which I'm most prou...

Hard disks were created for the first time by IBM in 1956, half a century ago, at about the same time that I started to learn computer progr...

Towards the end of 1957, after my second year of studies in the Faculty of Science at the University of Sydney, my student friend Michael Ar...

Today is the centenary of the birth of Alan Turing [1912-1954]. He is represented in Manchester by this park-bench sculpture, which include...

Normally, if all goes as planned, I'll be able to place an order tomorrow morning for a Raspberry Pi computer , for 40 euros. Click here...

Some of my readers might not get very far into this blog post, because calculating is not exactly an exciting subject, particularly when it...

This morning, my Macintosh computer refused to start up. All I've got on the screen was a gray apple icon and a little revolving circle ...

It's easy if you try.

Friends see that I follow current affairs on the web (including events in my native land). Then they hear me raving on about my blogging, my...

I was surprised by a recent article in the Australian press with a shock title: "Looking to laptops to lead Doomadgee children out of p...

Using my iMac to communicate through blogs is an interesting activity. In associated domains, I'm fond of Twitter , but I see it as sub...

This amazing little video was produced by pointing a camera at a real-world scene composed of four tracks that guide the movements of rollin...

My friend Yves Tallineau has just sent me a couple of photos dating from 1969, when we were working together in Paris in a software company...

Concerning Apple's iPad, my recent article entitled Latest creation [ display ] was inadvertently but grossly over-enthusiastic. Preoc...

Today's Google banner in France celebrates the 50th birthday of the comic-strip characters Astérix and Obélix , who appeared for the f...

I would imagine that Microsoft has had enough time and experience by now to get its act together at an operating systems level, in which ca...

A few years ago, the price of hard-disk drives started to drop, while their capacities jumped exponentially. That's why I've got thr...

I've put a protective coat of anti-rust product on the steel carcass of my recently-constructed iDesk, and polished the walnut slabs wit...

Click the image on the left to see a larger version of the Steelnut ad. I'm proud of my iDesk line of Steelnut furniture, "design...