Author: Louis-Dominique


Posted on: 30th July 2005

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Category: Academia in General

A poor soul demonstrates how not to inquire about a job.

Author: Louis-Dominique


Posted on: 29th July 2005

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Category: Academia in General

I can’t find a German-English dictionary for my Palm. Yes, there are some out there but those normally recommended in academia are not available for the Palm.

Author: Louis-Dominique


Posted on: 28th July 2005

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Category: General

A few ramblings about caring for Ice, our oldest cat, who suffers from Feline Chronic Renal Failure.

Author: Louis-Dominique


Posted on: 26th July 2005

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Category: Media

Actual description of an actual TV show (edited for readability):
Miracle Planet: The Violent Past, (Historical) Life may have come from microbes four billion years ago.

Historical?

Author: Louis-Dominique


Posted on: 24th July 2005

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Category: General

The man that was shot on Friday by the London Police was not a terrorist after all. No, he was found guilty of looking foreign by the London Police. (He was in fact Brazilian.) I thought the police was supposed to protect the innocent from terror but now it seems that their [...]

Author: Louis-Dominique


Posted on: 22nd July 2005

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Category: Media

I needed some audio files to test an application… A quick check onto the VOA web site confirmed that all materials produced exclusively by VOA are in the public domain. Yay!

Author: Louis-Dominique


Posted on: 22nd July 2005

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Category: Media

Rumblings and grumblings about Half-Life 1. Contrast with my earlier post about Half-Life 2: Half-Life 2: the Felicitous Marriage of Physics and Gameplay. I’m putting this up here mainly for the sake of comparison with that Hal-Life 2 post.

Author: Louis-Dominique


Posted on: 21st July 2005

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Category: Media

In this entry, I’m drooling over Half-Life 2.

Author: Louis-Dominique


Posted on: 6th July 2005

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Category: General

The barricat polices the cats for me.

Author: Louis-Dominique


Posted on: 6th July 2005

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Category: Nonsense

I get spammed just like everyone else. Sometimes I’d like to respond to those bozos but I know that my responses won’t get anywhere. So I’ll do the next best thing and respond to them here. Since I don’t want to open their messages, I’m only going to respond to their subject line.