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.
As a Nurun Inc. employee, I have been assigned as project manager for many web projects for W.L Gore & Associates, the makers of the famous GORE-TEX® brand of high-performance fabrics. The biggest project I have worked on so far this year has been the redesign of the websites of their GORE BIKE WEAR™ and GORE RUNNING WEAR™ sportswear brands.
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.
Check out my latest personal project/collaboration: the new website of Tim Rideout, Montreal musician extraordinaire, featuring a spankin’ new CMS and Tim-a-liscious funky new content all around.
RSS technology is a great way to automatically receive information from a website. I have completely updated how my site handles RSS using Feedburner.com, a free RSS feed distribution service.
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.
Shimmering Waters
