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Hanging out with the girls

As my wife was (and still is) undertaking a large part of our kitchen renovations over the past month and a half, I spent a lot of time with our two girls, going to the park, enjoying the water games near our place and running various errands. Here are a few pictures from one of [...]

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Summer’s here, time for a new theme

One thing that I have always loved about Wordpress is the ability to quickly change my site’s theme in an hour or two and preserve all of its data while completely changing how it looks. As you can see if you are visiting my actual site, I had fun and changed the visual theme for [...]

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A great April Fool’s joke

I know, I know… April’s Fool was a week ago. I’ve been meaning to write about this hilarious video that Microsoft made to advertise one of their “new” upcoming games called Alpine Legends. The video that they made has very good production values and could definitely fool someone at a quick glance. Check it out [...]

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Now on Twitter

Everybody, from radio announcers to podcast hosts to bloggers seem to be jumping on the Twitter bandwagon these days, so I decided to give it a shot as well. You can see my latest tweets on my personal site sidebar or obviously by following me on Twitter.

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Suggaring off, gluten-free style

My oldest daughter Évelyne, who is now 4 1/2 years old, has Celiac’s disease. Because of this illness, she cannot eat more commercial food, including of course going to the restaurant. Well, we got a nice treat today as an italian restaurant called Ottavio that has a location in Laval and recently opened a second [...]

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Alone with the girls

This week is something quite unique for me. Andrée is away to a photographer convention in Florida while I am taking vacation and staying home with the girls. Two days into it, things are going pretty good. I’ve managed to get Evelyne to school this morning on time and then came back home and had [...]

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Time flies

As I write this post, my oldest daughter turned 3 last week and my second one is 8 months and already crawling all over the place. Between work, traveling for work the kids and taking care of the house, time always seems to just fly by with no chance to do anything outside of our [...]

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Still writing reviews

Although I have not mentioned it for a while online, I am still writing DVD reviews for UnePorte.net. Some of my recent texts published have been reviews of Mission: Impossible III and Battlestar Galactica 2.5. I also submitted a text on Bon Cop, Bad Cop, a very interesting bilingual movie that was released in Québec [...]

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LinkedIn: An interesting professional networking site

A colleague of mine showed me this very interesting professional networking site called LinkedIn. The idea is to create a list of contacts and then create your personal network through these contacts and their own contacts. I just opened myself an account on there and started networking.

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The beginning of a new phase in our lives

As I mentioned in my previous post, I am extremely sorry for not taking the time to post some news here. I just can’t believe how incredibly busy the last couple of months have been. The first source of business has been all of my traveling. I have been to Detroit (4 times since September), [...]

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