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I was just wondering why “UTC” stood for “Coordinated Universal Time”. Apparently (okay, citing Wikipedia here, so be critical), it’s of two main reasons: English and French speaking folks that were participating in that discussion wanted their language to be … Continue reading →

While doing some research on current rich internet applications / web application platforms, I discovered an online presentation site/tool called Prezi. This online application allows you to make dynamic presentations differently from the standard presentation software like OpenOffice.org’s Impress. A … Continue reading →

A few people have contacted me if they were allowed to translate the online book I’m writing (Linux Sea). Of course they are, the license allows it. However, I recommend to wait a bit. At this moment, I’m not going … Continue reading →

If you’re not up to the various free image gallery sites, you might want to try out ZenPhoto. Quite powerful, easy to use and well themeable. Requires PHP / MySQL.

Having documented a lot in LaTeX (back in the old days at the university), GuideXML (Gentoo’s document markup language) and DocBook (Linux Sea) I’m now pointing my arrows at DITA, the Darwin Information Typing Architecture. DITA “forces” the technical writer … Continue reading →

At work, I am often busy with quite a few projects. Yet, at times, I have no outstanding tasks because all of my tasks can only start when an event has occurred (like a server which is made available, or … Continue reading →