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Every 10 days

It seems that Google index my website each ten days. I found that it already cached yesterday's entry (french only entry) of that journal. Since the last version of Google's cache for my website showed my november 9 entry, I came to belive it looks at my site every ten days, or less.

I found recently by this mean that Google's visit fequency grown up since I made that journal. It's only an hypothetesis, but maybe Google increase it's visit frequency when it see that a page is updated often. It's logic.

What to say about...

Longhorn is the next major version of Windows. Planned for somewhere in the year 2005, this new version will solve all your problems, thanks to it's revised task-based (or "iterative") user interface, an extensible, dock-like and XML based, Sidebar, and a SQL Server 2003-based storage engine called WinFS (Windows Future Storage).

According to Paul Thurrott's FAQ, Windows of the future will be more user-friendly than today's Mac OS: Longhorn will make the screen more photorealistic and deep by using 3D video hardware to render special effects.

Slowly, the future is coming. The start button looks like promising for now. But if I follow correctly Microsoft's promise history, they seem to always deliver one major version later.

Retaliation

This discussion thread on MacNN forums is of some interest. It talks about a recent rocket attack that destroyed an American helicopter in Iraq. Where we can ask questions is at the description of officials on the ground that, as a defence, are intimidating inhabitants of Tikrit and destroying some houses of "suspects" with machine guns and rockets.

Isn't terrorism intimidation with weapons? Maybe it just all depends on wich side we are.

Update: On the same subject, Aljazeera says it has found the famous weapons of mass destruction.

2006 Census given to a company?

An English site with the "Vive le Canada" funny name is reporting that Allan Rock, our industry minister, could give the task of preparing and executing the next census to a weapon company from the United-States. I can barely believe it... but isn't it to Statistics Canada to do this job?

A petition has been prepared.