A company called Image Metrics has caught my eyes the other day, I had seen a video a couple of years ago of an advertising of subscription plan by a couple of actors of an old TV show. The product was new but the actors were long gone… That’s the wonder of “Motion Capture”. The company could realize this by using some pointers on the faces of actors and then reproduce the movements of those pointers on a 3D face that would then be super-imposed on the original animation.

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Some time ago I was trying to remember an excellent explanation of the main religions to my girlfriend. It involved movies and sequels, I was finally able to find it back (Internet is wonderful place):

“Think of it like a movie. The Torah is the first one, and the New Testament is the sequel. Then the Qu’ran comes out, ant if retcons (Retroactive continuity) the last one like it never happened. There’s still Jesus, but he’s not the main character anymore, and the messiah hasn’t shown up yet.

Jews like the first movies but ignored the sequels, Christians think you need to watch the first two, but the third movie doesn’t count, Moslems think the third one was the best, and Mormons liked the second so much they started writing fan fiction that doesn’t fit with any of the series canon.”

– Unknown Author

It’s a bit of a shortcut but it sums it up enough to make it understandable to a neophyte.

I was sitting with my back against the window working peacefully on my computer when a colleague sitting in front of me looked past me then sat up and went to have a look at the window behind me. The snow had arrive to Brussels and everybody stated to take a break to have a look. You cannot take away that amazing childish feeling of fun when you see snow falling and covering everything in white coat.

So I took my phone a decided to take a picture…

Of course getting out to get something to eat people started stating the fact that snow is cold, wet and sticks to your clothes.  But I don’t care, I still like it :-)

I have the habbit of using water straight from the tap to brush my teeth, something that I have done for years and thought completely natural. This was until I notice that there is a glass in the bathroom that my girllfriend put there when she moved in, and I thought I would ask her what the glass is for. This is the note she left for me.

I love her :-)

It has been a little bit more than half a year since I have decided to implement a specific template to be used on mobile devices such as a cell phone or a Smartphone, etc. Unfortunately I never had the chance to check what the result would be like on all of them and certainly know if it was a satisfactory result comparing to what I have on my iPhone for example.
Luckily I’ve had the change to stubble upon a site that happens to be specialized in this sort of question and runs a test of your web site to see if it is ok to browse it on a simple phone. And here is the score I got:

I must say that I am quite happy; since this was not the aim of the site in the first place I was quite glad to see the result.
So there you go, you can even read me on the subway, in a park or on a plane… well… maybe.