I had first spotted a link to this website on Bombast.org, so later on, I went and checked it for myself for a little longer than just clicking and having a quick look. The website is called Vischeck, and provides interesting information about color blindness, as well as examples and a page to check how your website will appear.

Roughly 1 in 20 people have some sort of color vision deficiency. The world looks different to these people: they often find it hard to tell red and green things apart. This often means that they sometimes can’t see things that ‘color normal’ people can see.

Many pictures, documents and web pages are hard for color blind people to read because the people who designed them didn’t think about the problem. Vischeck lets them check their work for color blind visibility. It is also interesting to anyone who is just plain curious about what the world looks like if you’re color blind.

This may not seem more than a curiosity; however, for a graphic-designer or for anyone who dabbles in web-design and wants to obtain the most accuracy possible when it comes to displaying a site, this is a “detail” that not many people usually take into account.

(All in all, once tested through Vischeck, this blog remains readable. It’s a good beginning, I think.)

There used to be this mysterious little word, “RSS”, which meaning I couldn’t understand… However, now that I’m myself more used to the world of blogging and of reading news slightly more often than on a sporadic basis only, I found that these weird entities of “feeds” are almost a necessity to keep track with everything; bookmarking one’s favorite blogs in a browser can only take you that far.

In a nutshell, feeds are files that are generated in the background and gather data everytime a blog, news source or similar website is updated. Not every blog will have a feed, mind you, but with those that do, it’s quite convenient, since it hands the readers a quick and convenient way to keep up to date with the blog, instead of having to bookmark and manually check it. What may seem like an easy and normal behavior when you read two blogs only becomes a hassle when you want to check a half hundred of them. Or more, way more.

So, each time you see these cryptic acronyms of “RSS” (Really Simple Syndication), “Atom” and other “Syndicate this site (XML)” links, these are feeds. What you need next is an aggregator – in other words, a tool that will keep all your feeds in one place, and will check them regularly and warn you when they get updated. This basically comes down to two types of readers: offline and online ones.

Alright, I pondered this over the whole week-end, and yesterday, I finally made my choice.

Highly influenced by Loïc Le Meur’s way of doing on his own blog, I’ll freely admit it, I’ve decided to reconsider my bilingual approach to this blog, and actually make two blogs – one in English, the other in French. Let’s not fool myself, I like writing in both languages, but having them contained in one post each time I want to share something will probably get tiresome (it has already begun for me, actually). I’m not sure that I, as a reader, would exactly care about having two versions shoved under the nose each time, especially given the fact that I can often write long posts as well.

So, here it is:

• The English version of this blog remains here, where it has always been. (You can also access it through the domain name ylogs.com.)


• La version française se trouve à présent à cette URL. Elle sera accessible par le biais du petit drapeau placé sous “About”. Beaucoup plus facile comme cela, non?

Over the past two days, I’ve moved most of the existing posts and comments to the French blog. The remaining ones will very likely be translated and added there as well when I actually finish the whole move (well, not exactly a move, but you get the drift).

Of course, this is NOT meant to be a hassle on anyone, feel free to follow one RSS feed only and not both, and so on. Same goes for the comments: I would never expect anyone to comment twice just because the posts exist in both languages. In fact, these blogs can be viewed as quite independant from each other. I may at times post one entry in French only because it relates to something that doesn’t need to be in English, or the contrary, but when I can, I’ll “translate”. You probably won’t miss a lot if following one of the blogs only.

Now to fully realize that I’ve added yet another thing to do to my growing list of activities… it’s a good thing that I write fast!

Let’s admit it, even if most of the time I can’t find anything worth being watched on the gazillion of channels that TPS kindly gives me access to, sometimes, yes, sometimes, there are a few movies or series that could… deserve to be checked, in a very sarcastic way. Along the traditional lines of “perhaps this won’t be as lousy as it seems”, here comes Bloody Mallory, which made me laugh quite a little. Worth being mentioned is the fact that “laughing” for me can stem from really funny movies as well as from really stupid ones. Or, all considered, second-rate movies may make me laugh even more, since one never knows whether it was lousy on purpose or not. After all, being able to take a movie at the 10th degree is also a quality… I think.

To be watched with the same mindset as for a Buffy episode – with a pack of beer and a few pals under the hand. It’s almost like an episode fromDamned, with more money and less private jokes (actually, I really like Damned, even though understanding all the references in it probably categorizes me forever). I still quite digged the cardboard sceneries and the old plot twists that can be smelled ten miles ahead; for a roleplayer who likes betting on what the next scene will be, it’s fun. Most of the acting was frankly bland; however, given that from the start I didn’t intend on taking this movie seriously, it oddly fit.

Aye, aye, I also want my version of the Necronomicon in an e-book.

While travelling through our dear Lorraine in which I’m currently expatriated, why not hop by Malbrouck’s castle in Manderen? From April to October 2005 is held there a dragon-themed exhibition, organized in partnership with Paris Natural History Museum.

Artworks, goldsmith’s works, paintings, statues and manuscripts from many eras… The exhibition totals about 200 pieces from public and private collections from throughout the whole world, presented according to the following themes:

• Origins of the European dragon


• Dragon’s treasures


• Shapes and symbols of the Asian dragon


• Zoology of the dragon

The exhibition is open everyday (Monday 14H – 18H, Tuesday to Friday: 10H – 18H, week-end and holidays: 10H – 19H).