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The latest major updates to this site are as follows:
2 December: I have decided to support
The Hunger Site, that allows YOU
to make free donations of food to feed hungry people.
5 July: My pages have been featured by
AdmiNet, The French Connection.
10 December: Progress never stops: AltaVista now provides a new free service to the Internet
community: its Translation Assistant.
It simply makes machine translation available to just everybody...
Just enter the URL of a page (for instance, one of mine) and you will read it not only in the
original English language, but also in the language of your choice:
French,
German,
Italian,
Portuguese or
Spanish.
And the layout and the links are preserved: you must see it to believe it. That's simply great!
You really must try it yourself!
 
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Welcome to my Home. If you've got some sharp eyes, you may see it, right behind the Eiffel Tower, on this view provided by TF1, the French TV channel, it is conveniently located in in Paris, in the Latin Corner, on the Left Bank. The house-warming party took place on 11 November, 1996. |
May be I'll write my biography some day. And include more photographs of me (that is fashionable on the Web...). And tell you about a number of associations (like ADIGEF and MENSA) in which I am involved. When I have time...
For the time being, if you want to know more, why not ask Internet? Indeed, more information about me can be obtained from your favourite search engine (as listed here in the alphabetical order):
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And why not try all of them? you will be surprised by the differences in results...
Creating my personal home page is also for me the opportunity to play with technology. It is indeed a challenge to get the most out of available techniques to reach the goal is aiming at.
My intention here is to share my achievements in this field and to dedicate one of my pages to some tips on how to write efficient HTML code and, more generally, to create some nice-looking, multimedia pages in spite of technical limitations.
Keep watching! This page will be available soon!
The
Classical Midi Archives offer thousands of
classical music files you can listen to at the click of your mouse. Most composers are represented.
A major award-winning cultural site on the Web which provides its own search engine.
The site of the French magazine Photo is now much faster than it used to be and really worth a visit... Especially as France is still lagging behind on the Web.
Combining mobile multimedia with wearable computing and wireless communications, WearCams gives rise to a new form of connectivity: you can see what Steve Mann, from the Vision and Modeling Group of the MIT Media Laboratory, is seeing right now (or what he has last transmitted)... What will life be like when paparazzi have such devices?
More than 50,000 images are available on the web (for sale, but a few of them can be downloaded absolutely free).
The California Museum of photography, at the University of Californy / Riverside, is a very nice, impressive web site dedicated to photography, with lots of exhibitions - presently: Lucien Clergue and 3D, stereoscopic photographs (Please note: I am presently experiencing with the anaglyph technology ... come back in a few weeks).
Live from Mars... Some wonderful photographs have been made available on the web; be patient, success is so great that you might be confronted with download delays (although arrangements have been made to cope with almost 100,000,000 a day...). You can even fly through a 360 degree Virtual Reality model of the Mars Pathfinder panorama!
Check the (supposedly) first internet pages with real 3D effects, with 3D-glasses you can get for free from Fa. Even if they are not the first ones, they are quite cool.
Hale-Bopp is the comet of the century. All over the world, amateur and professional photographers and astronomers are using this rare opportunity to get some truly spectacular images, but these Norwegian images are really superb.
Silicon Graphics certainly is at the cutting edge of graphics, and their Virtual Worlds (VRML 2.0, that is) are worth the visit. And they warn you: These worlds are inspiring and may be hazardous to your day job.
With its Electric Postcard, the famous MIT Media Lab proposes a postcard rack with a wide variety of postcards for you to choose from: you pick the card you like, write your message, and send it off; the recipient will be notified by email that a card has been sent and to claim it.
The online collection of the work of photographer Bill Schwab - a very nice, professional site, showing various examples ranging from personal works to those created on commision for a variety of clientele.
Grafica Obscura is an evolving computer graphics notebook maintained by Paul Haeberli of Silicon Graphics. It consists of a compilation of technical notes, pictures and essays accumulated over the years.
Virtual New York, Planet 9 Studios' VRML model of the Big Apple, captivates online tourists and natives alike with a unique view of the cosmopolitan megalopolis. As a cultural epicenter replete with a diverse range of to-dos, Virtual New York has something for everyone. Check out the billboards in Times Square. Stop by the World Trade Center. Whether you have an artistic focus or an eye for commerce, this three dimensional model offers an intruiging interface.
Movie & Animation Theater contains SGI, QuickTime, and MPEG movie clips which can be viewed with the IRIX 5.2 movieplayer application, or any QuickTime movie player.
Some large institutional sites are also worth more than a look, as they are at the leading-edge of design: Coca-Cola, Disney, MTV, Wired, ...
And the Cyber Café 21, run by Radio 21 and Ex-machina (what a cool design!), is also worth more than an occasional look.
