L’électron libre

Singapour – Premières Impressions (Reloaded)

Après plus d'un an sur ce petit point rouge du planisphère, je souhaite revenir sur les premières impressions exprimées l'an dernier dans "Singapour - Premières impressions" pour donner une image un peu plus terre-à-terre de la vie à Singapour. Cout de la vie Je reste sur ma position, Singapour offre un pouvoir d'achat sensiblement plus important que celui de la France. La vie ici est plus simple et confortable qu'en ...

360° Panorama Video – Amazing

After you've seen how beautiful panoramic pictures can be, you will quickly want to apply that to video. Well, they've done it, and I must say it looks pretty nice. Check this out. Based on the processing time for a high resolution panoramic picture (a matter of one to several hours for about 100 pictures), I can imagine that the panoramic video takes forever to compile ! Pretty sweet though, can't ...

Torch Paperwork Efficiently From Your PC

There is nothing more tedious than having to juggle between faxes, printers and scanners to get some paperwork done.I am collecting and sharing whatever (free or cheap) tool allows to free human people from the inhuman task of having to torch hours of paperwork.

Problem Solving: Problems, Symptoms, and Remedies

When facing what seems to be a problem, we nearly always cure/fix the symptoms and not the core issue itself. Distinguishing symptoms from the problem itself is however quite simple. Symptoms, a necessary alarm There is nothing more natural for a person than wait for symptoms to come up so as to identify a given problem. For example, many dentists and doctors will agree that most patients are brought to ...

Working Out: The Picky Questions That Make a Difference

If you have been seriously enough at the gym, you must have asked yourself at least one of these questions, if not all. They finally were given a clear documented answer. Should I do all the sets of one exercise and rest in between or can I do cycles so I can move right away to a different exercise ? How many reps is ideal ? How many sets ? Is there ...

Intraview Episode 3 – Busy Summertime

First of all, all apologies are to be presented to the few readers of this category. The intraviews were supposed to be very monthly but things got very busy. It's not there was no time for it, it's just the mind was somewhere else. NUS: The Exams and Lectures Experience Last intraview was before the exams. Everything went very well, the level of difficulty and in fact education at NUS ...

The Best Bakery in Paris

If you are going to Paris, no matter whether you are French or foreigner, you must consider some bread and bakeries touring. There is official rankings of bakeries and yearly awards of the Best Baguette Award and such things, which you may want to try. In the following I apologize for the low quality of the English used there but there is some feelings that require a bit of popupar/vulgar ...

Le Footsie Bar: For Finance Workoholics Only

Think of a bar where you would buy your drinks depending on offer and demand, that's the Footsie bar. It is said to be the favourite bar of Jerome Kerviel :) he did really good there and could get 30 cocktails for less than 50 Euros...no wonder it affected his performances during daytime! The more a drink is demanded the more the price increases, and vice-versa. If you are ...

Become Top-Model Within Few Hours

Here is something that must make you feel less frustrated next time you look at those beautiful models in the magazines, with their perfect skin, perfect body lines and face features... And if in spite of this there remains an ounce of doubt, watch this, away from meals is preferable.

Vous vous souvenez dans le film Matrix, le passage avec les hommes-piles ? Cet article est en plain dedans : Comment générer de l'énergie électrique a partir d'un humain ? Voici une solution possible, qui relève plus du bricolage que de la recherche amont, mais c'est pas inintéressant : http://www.generation-nt.com/marcher-recharger-batterie-telephone-portable-mobile-actualite-68011.html C'est quand même pas pratique leur truc...mais j'ai une idée sur quelque chose qui aurait du leur sauter a la figure...

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