Ah, the pleasures of being in the countryside

A trip to the village of Eymoutiers (pop C. 3000), in the Limousin area of France, for a weekend of relaxation with the family. This is the village about which I wrote in a prior post, where the Casino supermarket is open Sunday. On the way down (via the SNCF) from...

P2P Limewire going, going…

With news via TechDirt that Limewire was tagged by the Recording Industry Assoc of America (RIAA) with a lawsuit and that Limewire has “negotiated” to stay alive using the Digital Rights Management (DRM) route, one could get the feeling that jaws is...

Full text feeds are better than ha[lf]..te[xt]..

On the good advice of a charming new acquaintance, Jean-Marc, I was sent to the site techdirt.com. And, I immediately found an interesting piece of advice which I thought I would share: when creating feeds, allow for full text feeds. The polemic was initiated after...

Beauty in the eye of the software

Just as we have Unilever presenting the “real” woman with their Dove campaign, on the other end of the scale, we have digital retouching going democratic. In 2006, an Israeli firm launched a software to allow for perfect retouching of faces. Found this...

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