August -- août
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Nifty links: Phone, Time & Money - Just the other day I was trying to call the "Direction de l'état-Civil" [English version] in Québec (Canada) for a client, and was confused that Canada used the same international dialing pre-fix (1) as the United States! Check out this list of international dialing prefixes. Likewise, you can find out the time anywhere in the world by linking to the Worldtime Server, a very well designed site that takes into account daylight savings time (which renders information on time zones in most books unreliable). If you need to know the equivalent value of a given currency this site will give you accurate information. Liens utiles : le téléphone, l'heure & l'argent - L'autre jour en appelant la Direction de l'état-Civil au Québec, au Canada, pour le compte d'une cliente, j'ai eu du mal à me rappeler que l'indicatif d'appel international était le (1), comme aux Etats-Unis.
2003.08.15 -- 15 août 2003 Hiatus - I've been busy, mostly with house repairs. And it sure felt empowering to return to manual labor, working on screen doors, painting and generally fixing things. And I needed a break, but sometimes reading other blogs, like the recent post in Idle Words on parallel universes, in which Maciej Ceglowski commented on the web site of Cosmologist Max Tegmark after running through the various theories: "If it bothers you that there can be an infinite number of universes of infinite size, separated by infinite inflationary regions expanding faster than the speed of light, then you haven't spent enough time reading cosmology. Who needs drugs, or religion? Give me high-energy physics!" Running across this kind of statement in my late-night surfing reconciles me with the blogosphere. I'm still thinking through what form and frequency this blog will take on in the future since I have so many other projects to work on too. But one thing is sure, it wrings a daily writing regimen out of me and will serve as a future reference bank of past links. Hiatus - J'ai été très occupé ces derniers temps par des travaux manuels, et ça fait plaisir de manier des outils de nouveau, de réparer des portes moustiquaires, de peintre. C'est
en lisant des passages de ce type au cours de mes surfs
nocturnes que je me réconcilie avec la
blogosphère. Je réfléchis encore
à la forme et à la périodicité
que prendra le présent carnet web à l'avenir
car j'ai tant de projets, mais une chose est certaine, il me
force à produire du texte et servira de fils de
référence à l'avenir
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