When writting my previous post I found some interesting documents about TOR, Bittorrent and more generally peer to peer anonymity. All this reading helped my to understand that using Bittorrent with TOR for anonymous peer to peer doesn’t make sense. In my previous post I suggested to use TOR to route trafic between trackers and [...]

A few weeks ago Chris Brunner post an article called “Why You Shouldn’t Run BitTorrent Over Tor?”. I found this point of view too restrictive. This point of view makes the assumption that people are stupid. So as using TOR with bittorrent is not so easy, we should prevent people to use them. I will list below [...]

An article from “San Francisco Chronicle” based on a Walter Mischel experiment, states  that Selt-control is the key to success. For this experiment 4 years old children are left in a room with a marshmallow and a bell. If they rang the bell, the scientist would come back and they could eat the marshmallow. If however [...]

 ”WordCount™ is an artistic experiment in the way we use language. It presents the 86,800 most frequently used English words, ranked in order of commonness. Each word is scaled to reflect its frequency relative to the words that precede and follow it, giving a visual barometer of relevance. The larger the word, the more we [...]

The “Tour de France” official website allow to see the route in 3D using Google Earth.   

I spent a few weeks to search for a Web Hosting solution. I finally choose Dreamhost. The sites below helped me to make my decision. So they could also be useful for people searching a web host. Here is the list with a few comments on each:

Web Hosting Jury: Provides review on web Host. Users [...]

Pitchfork Media created a wondefull list of 100 Awesome Music Videos. Sometimes I think the song is not great but the video makes you love the song. For me it’s the case for A-HA take on me for instance.

A guy called Tarun Upadhyay has created a software that allows to add Labels in Outlook (like Gmail) using categories. I didn’t tried it but it looks interesting. The software is free and may be found here.

I just discovered that it is possible to tag mails with categories in microsoft outlook 2003. Once you have done that, it’s easy to display mail in a folder by categories. It is a more flexible way to organize mail than folder, because you can attach a mail to several categories whereas it can only [...]

The russian music site Allofmp3 proposed a dedicated section of 500 greatest albums. It costs about 1$ to download an album without DRM in mp3 format (Quality 192 kbs). It’s very interesting to look at this offer, because most of the artists in this list are dead. And also some clients may already have those [...]