Health and Tai chi

Nouvelle prescription pour traiter l’hypertension: tai chi.
Effets secondaires: baisse de la TA, moins de stress, moins d’anxiété, amélioration du système respiratoire et beaucoup plus de beaux effets secondaires encore.

Read about it: http://integralwisdomqigong.com/2011/10/15/high-blood-pressure-and-tai-chi-therapy-2/

Movie review: Shaolin (2011)

The trailer of Shaolin (2011) does not do justice to the movie. The cinematography isn’t the best I’ve seen, but the story and its intensity greatly compensate. The things that happen in the movie are terrible. It is filled with death, death and more death. In a way, you can compare it to The Lord of the Rings where the only thing there is to hold on to is hope; hope for a bright future filled with peace.

How dark must your heart to harm …

I got hit by snow in early January

I went skiing in early January. It was only the second time this season on a very easy mountain. The snow was great and smooth.

At some point, I took the lead and I stopped in the middle of the mountain to wait for two other friends. One of them came rushing right at me.

I was wondering if I should run away to avoid getting hit or if I should just trust him to do the right thing. Trusting paid off with a big fat shower of snow.

That was the first time. It was so awesome. The quantity of …

This is why everyone should know how to change a flat tire

We were going skiing. I was driving on the highway for over an hour. I was passing cars. Cars were passing us. It’s a little snowy. Suddenly, we hear a noise that sounds a lot like a flat tire. I don’t need to see it to start feeling annoyed. I signal my intention to go to the right to stop. We get out of the car to investigate while cars keep …

Rearranging longzero.com

The problem with the design in the first image on the right is that it focuses on my work and only that. It provides no information about who I am or what I do. I wanted to change that without creating an entire new design, because this design is quite effective in showcasing my web design work and expressing what I am about: someone who goes straight to the point, elegantly.

Furthermore, the Entertainment portion was taking way too much real estate and that had to …

How to keep your website from being framed

My interest in this topic when Lori Deschene, the author of this post, wrote about her website being put in a frame by BlogHer.

Having your website in a frame can confuse your visitors into thinking that your website is part of another branding that isn’t yours. It call also mess up the URL and screws up bookmarks and link-sharing. I don’t want to dwell too much on why frames are bad, but I want to show you a way to free your website in case your website …

Merry Christmas

Love is given
Love is received
Love is shared
Love is everywhere

Merry Christmas.

Movie Review: Tomorrow, When The War Began (2010)

I had no intention watching this movie, but I wanted to watch something and this one had good ratings on IMDb which got me curious. It’s also an Australian movie which I have never seen. I ended up liking Tomorrow, When The War Began.

Several friends are going camping for a weekend. When they come back, they find their town invaded by foreign unknown forces. They decide that they should fight back instead of just hiding.

Am I busy? Of course not.

I have started doing something new and very interesting. Everytime someone asks if I am busy, regardless of what is happening in my life, I say that I am not.

I used to believe that it was a good thing to be busy. I blame all of you for that belief. You keep telling me and each other a variation of “It’s good to be busy”. Why do you say that? Who came up with that? It’s actually terrible to be busy. You lose sight of almost everything. You dismiss so many important things. You become unfocused. You reach an unproductive …

A website for Jennifer Santiago

Jennifer Santiago is an Emmy award-winning reporter, world traveler, photographer and attorney. She is currently the host and producer of Plum Daily, a news and entertainment program. It certainly was a privilege to work on her website.

The process to get to the result was very different from other projects I’ve worked on

Pourquoi pas prendre le métro?

«Pourquoi quand il s’agit de transport en commun, on fait des calculs d’épicier, alors qu’on dépense des milliards pour des projets autoroutiers sans se poser de questions?» demande Richard Bergeron, chef de Projet Montréal, dans le quotidien Métro Montréal. Il veut qu’il y ait l’air climatisé dans le métro de Montréal.

Ma réponse: Parce que personne ne veut ou n’aime prendre le métro, pas même toi, Richard Bergeron. Et l’absence d’air climatisé ne fait même pas partie des raisons pour éviter le métro et ce n’est pas comme si on en avait besoin pour dresser une liste courte de …

Twitter is currently down for planned maintenance

I doubt that many people have seen this since most people were asleep while Twitter was down. You might think that Twitter being down is nothing unusual, but here’s the thing: there was no fail whale. Instead, there was a green worm with an ice cream dude telling the worm to hurry up.

And the message? Twitter is currently down for planned maintenance. “Planned”! Did you see that word? This is the part where speculations go around the web until Twitter reveals to the world …

Movie Review: La Dame au manteau rouge (2010)

La Dame au manteau rouge est un court métrage d’Olivier Labonté LeMoyne. C’est un film… Je ne peux pas vraiment dire drame, action, comédie, horreur ou autre, ça pourrait détruire le punch. Par contre, je pourrais dire que c’est une excellente adaptation d’un conte bien connu, Le Petit Chaperon rouge. Oui, une excellent adaptation en effet, digne d’être ajouté à la page Adaptations of Little Red Riding Hood de Wikipédia.

Ce court métrage d’une dizaines de …