So far, the weather this summer in Ontario has been on the cool and wet side. All of June and July were either rainy or cooler than the seasonal average.

Today at the Belwood Lake Conservation area, we saw several interesting bird species. Of course, we saw the common and ever visible ones, such as robins, blue jays, Canada geese, mallard ducks, and even a great blue heron.

This page lists some successful digital archeology "digs" or "excavations", where old software or hardware, or both were revived

Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (or Gorsky) (1863-1944) was a Russian photographer that offers a vivid visual portrait of the Russian Empire at its height, and more importantly, the architecture, the scenery and the people of the lands that constituted this empire, including the Caucasus region, and Central Asia.

Coming soon.

When reviewing the web server logs a few days ago, I noticed that I get a lot of traffic via search engines, like Google, MSN, Dogpile, Yahoo, Mamma, and others.

I was amused to find that some of the pages on this web site were ranked very high, without me intending them to be so.

Here is a list of highly ranked pages, at the time of writing this article (July 2004).

In my Introduction to Digital Archeology article, I discussed how our present state of society and civilization would be perceived by future generations of digital archeologists.In this article, you will find a collection of links on how best to preserve digital information in its various forms.

This article documents some observations on the evolution of non-English writing systems on internet communities, such as chat, newsgroups and forums.In the mid and late 1990s, the growth of internet usage was explosive, specially as it spread outside North America and Western Europe.Early adopters are technically savvy people, who most likely can speak and read English because of their education and/or work, such as scientists, and programmers.Then as technology spreads among the less technologically savvy, people who do not know English well want to express themselves in their native lang

The following novels and movies all share the fact that they are mostly a critique of existing or perceived dangers to society. They all have a political or a moral message warning society of those dangers, or critiquing them.I provide here a brief description of what the novel is about, and a link to the summary of it to those who are short on time.

As our civilization moves to almost all digital forms of storage and archiving of various aspects of life, it is important that this history is preserved for the future generations in a way that would accurately reflect how this civilization really is. This article details some of the difficulties that would face future archeologists, and how to get over them now, for the sake of the future.