This is the second and last instalment of the epic blog post series Dominoes in the sky! I am using here the same references as in...
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Dominoes in the sky (1st of 2)
The Low Earth orbit (LEO for friends) is the region of space between sea level and an altitude of about 2000 km. If you happen to...
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This post is the continuation of my last post. We were discussing — superficially, of course, as one is forced to do in this blogging environment,...
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The 49-minute documentary, broadcast on Channel 4 in the UK, is called The Great Amazon Heist. It seems to make a lot of noise in that...
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This is a follow-up to my last blog post. We were talking about Apple Inc, the world’s largest company by a number of criteria according to...
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This is a picture of the underside of my Apple 2015 MacBook Pro. You can see that the head of the screw has a strange 5-pointed...
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A long time ago, one of my uni colleagues got into the habit of looking inside Microsoft Word files. Instead of opening the file by double-clicking...
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The website alloprof.qc.ca (word for word from French: hello teacher) is an online homework help service for elementary and high school pupils. What? Yet another one?...
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In the boring country where I come from, sometimes, things happen. On 15 June 2023, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government passed Bill C-18, the long...
Continue reading...Much a-click about nothing
Everyone can use a good title, be it for a novel, an article or a film. For this blog entry, for example, “Clickbaiting: Typology and Subtextual...
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