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WARNING : This lengthy and rather austere article is intended for a limited readership of fellow genealogical researchers. When I first star...

As of this afternoon, my staircase is at last presentable… although I still have to finish all the joints with mortar. Besides, it will look...

Ratzi and his colleagues at Vatican City (a Mickey Mouse "state" created in 1929 under Benito Mussolini ) are furious because Be...

This morning, while browsing through an Australian media website, I encountered these two ads, side by side: I'm shocked by the Australi...

In computer interfaces, hovering is the familiar behavior that consists of using your mouse to move the cursor to a certain button… but wit...

Steve Jobs (who's not the man designated by my title) often seems to be saying that, if only web developers were to get profoundly inv...

Named Lolita , this rose might be expected to bloom precociously: On the contrary, it's the last rosebush to blossom in my garden. The f...

Readers wishing to brush up on their knowledge of crude French language can take advantage of front-page stories that have been appearing ov...

After an unusually snowy winter and a rainy spring, Sophia has a problem adjusting to the warm weather. No longer interested in her big wick...

In the Melbourne press, an article by Leslie Cannold [ display ] draws attention to the fact that Australian school children are being bra...

Clearly, the birth of the Apple iPad (which arrived recently in France) has shaken up considerably the world of personal computing. And I...

These two images are separated by some three quarters of a century: Hippolyte Gerin has been dead for over half a century, but the overall ...

TV spectators of the World Cup have been alarmed by disturbing noises emitted by South Africa. Is the TV broken? Is there some strange trans...

In a landscape context, I like to apply the term "singularity" to any kind of more-or-less unique phenomenon that is either except...

Most often, I use Firefox as my web browser, mainly because I've grown accustomed to it, and I've developed a big set of bookmarks. ...

In 1987, when I was lecturing in computing out at the Curtin University in Perth, I once told my students (who knew I'd been living in F...

When preparing the front of my house for the restoration of the façade in the autumn of 2007, I was saddened by the obligation to cut away a...

Yesterday, I decided to carry out a hands-on test concerning the idea of distributing genealogical stuff in ebook format. So, instead of was...