Shimmering Waters

Herbalism is a low-cost, accessible, community-powered, patent-free form of medicine. It’s also under threat from the patent-driven pharmaceutical business. Could the values and struggles of open-source software proponents have much in common with herbalists?

In the many-worlds theory of quantum mechanics, all possible events exist, have existed or will exist as each act or decision spins-off a plethora of parallel universes. This means, among other things, that every project I haven’t put into practice has in fact been accomplished by one of my many-world selves. Think then of all that I’ve accomplished over the years as I procrastinated, dithered and postponed putting my ideas into action!

When you feel alone and ignored online, spam will always be there for you... This tongue-in-cheek humor piece is my first of a series of articles published on Webstyle Magazine, the lifestyle mag for web professionals.

E-mail Russian bride scams are the Eurasian advance-fee fraud equivalent of the Nigerian 419 scams. They both share a love for Babelfish-like horrendous translation and gripping narrative. The "sexy", grainy & amateurish picture of some random woman is a treat in itself and well worth a thousand (badly translated) words.

As the world breath a sigh of relief following the inauguration of Barack Obama as the US president elect, I too feel that a heavy weight of dread has been lifted. It appears that Americans have decreed that they no longer wished to be led by division, ignorance and fear, choosing instead a message of change, hope and rationality. As a Canadian, I am heartily glad that our powerful neighbors are apparently finally moving away from the wasteful insanity of the last eight years.

Playing Bookworm Adventure with a child is a great way to stimulate interest in correct spelling, have fun building long words and develop self-esteem. Here are some great tips from my own experience playing Bookworm Adventure with my 10 year old boy.

Welcome to the new version of Shimmering Waters (thierrygagnon.com), my personal website/blog. It contains essentially the same content as the previous version but it is now organised and presented differently to better reflect the way I currently use it.

The Association for Contact Improvisation is an organisation devoted to promoting contact improvisation in the Montreal area. Their website features information on contact improv activities held in the region, as well as special tools to facilitate the organisation of events in CI.

My mandate was to completely overhaul the website’s structure, increase the potential for interactivity with the members, facilitate the website’s updates and keep the original design. All of this (...)