Comme je suis pas mal occupé, je n’ai pas eu le temps de traduire mes derniers textes en français. Si vous aimeriez avoir une version française, envoyez-moi un petit courriel. Sinon, je vais probablement retourner à ne poster qu’en anglais.
All right, it has been ages since I last posted anything on my blog. If you were patient enough to come back regularly, then you’ll see that I am still alive and kicking. Otherwise, sorry to have lost you.
Life has been quite busy over the summer and early fall. The first big news, that you might already know if you read Andree’s web site or spoke to me is that we are expecting our second child for mid-February and it’s going to be a girl. We don’t have a name yet but are quite happy that Évelyne will soon have a little sister.
On the work front, I have traveled a lot all over the place, going to Brazil, Belgium and multiple times to the US since my last post. I have also switched to a new job within my company, which we refer to as Pre-Sales. In this new role, I will be traveling to potential customer sites to show them our technology in conjunction with our sales team. This will probably mean a bit more travel than I was doing (even if I was already traveling a lot) but it will also mean mainly traveling for 2-4 days at a time during the week. So no more lost week-ends. I have already been on a few customer visits and really enjoy the work so far.
On the leisure front, I got a Nintendo DS Lite on my wedding anniversary from Andrée. It is really a sweet platform to play with and the new Super Mario Bros. game just rocks. You should give it a chance if you can.
That’s about it on this quick note. I’ll try to start posting regularly again.
A quick note to wich everyone a Happy Holiday season! I am on vacation until January 3rd and it is very good to get some time off the busy office life. We have just spent a few days in Hawkesbury visiting Andrée parents. Évelyne really enjoyed unwrapping gifts and playing with her new toys. We will not take it easy for the rest of the vacation.
For those who noticed that the photo album section of the site was not working correctly, please note that all pictures are now back up and more will be posted soon. More news to come soon.
After a busy summer, we are already at the beginning of the fall. That means that Évelyne is going to be turning one pretty soon. It’s scary how quickly she’s growing. But at the same time, it’s a lot of fun to see her going through every step.
Andrée started taking a Photoshop class at Concordia University on Saturdays so I am taking care of Évelyne for a good chunk of the day. It’s fun to get to spend time with her and see the new things she learned how to do during the week 
Work is always busy for me as usual. I am currently preparing course materials to support the release of a new version of our software. It is interesting to learn new things all the time. After all that is done, the new TV season is starting. I have started watching a french TV show called Au nom de la loi on Radio-Canada that is pretty good. At the same time, the sci-fi shows that we watch regularly (Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis and Battlestar Galactica) are taking a break until January so we won’t be overloaded by too much TV.
Mark May 10th on your calendars as it is the release date for the new CD from the Dave Matthews Band called Stand Up. A preview of the first song is available to listen to on America Online.
I have upgraded the site to Wordpress 1.5 at the beginning of the week. The new version features a cleaner administration interface and a bunch of new features. One of the nicest ones that I will need to put to use soon is the new spam protection for comments. I had to turn my comments off earlier this year because of an annoying casino site that systematically wrote spam comments for every single one of my posts. I think everything on the site is working correctly. Let me know if you see anything strange.
In the last few days, gmail has added POP support directly to their online mail service. So people who were desperately looking for an application to be able to POP their mail no longer need to worry. Simply go to the settings section, select Forwarding and POP and activate POP for the account. There are also instructions on how to configure your mail client to work with gmail.
