http://blog.djo.ca

Good day to @ll :: Bonne journée à tous

Please, take notice! :: SVP, prendre note !

From now on, 2007oct29, I'll work in my own blog, @t http://blog.djo.ca, rather than here: that's to say, that on 2007sep18, I inst@lled a WordPress 2.2.2 Blog, in my domain http://djo.ca.

Don't misunderstand me: the blogs in blogspot.com, @lias blogger.com, are great; however, nothing's worth a Home, Sweet Home.

Dorénavant, en ce 2007oct29, je tr@vaillerai dans mon blogue, @ http://blog.djo.ca, plutôt qu'ici : de fait, c'est depuis le 2007sep18, que j'ai inst@llé un blogue WordPress 2.2.2 dans mon dom@ine http://djo.ca. et que j'y trav@ille assidûment, au point d'en être fier.

Comprenez-moi bien : les blogues de blogspot.com, @lias blogger.com sont merveilleux ; néanmoins, on est jamais mieux servi que par soi-même...

Joseph Deneault, Djeault, DjO, ce 2007oct29, à Québec, QC.

9 Outils d'écriture Wiki Web Writing Tools

French English Correctors

BonPatron.com, , and SpellCheckPlus.com,, are two new online correcting tools that facilitate writing, or Web writing, both in French and English.

Please, take notice that the cre@tors of the very socio-constructivist online corrector www.lepatron.ca have laid, ± on Easter 2007, a new French corrector, which may be discovered at the @ddress:

http://BN PATRON.COM

The interface's layout has been greatly improved; moreover, as indicates Stéfan Sinclair et Terry Nadasdi's em@il in French, but here translated:

« * the editor isn't separated from the comments anymore – the mechanism that posts the linguistic problems now is integrated within the text editor;

* some preferences now are retained between work sprees (the interface's language, the mother tongue of the user, etc.) (except if you, like me, often suppress your cookies :-)

* many improvements within error verification »

Further good news, our Easter rabbits Terri and Stéfan also laid: SpellCheckPlus.com, "a very preliminary (alpha) version of a verifier for texts in English".

Another discussion, in French, on those two correctors, is @vailable in François Guité's blog

Also take notice that
those two correctors are @ccessible through the simple URL: http://djo.ca/c

Happy New Pig Year

Yes, today, 2007fev18, is the beginning of the Year of the Pig, which sometimes, is also called the Year of the Wild Boar, since being a pig is not necessarily as glamorous as being a horse, especially that ISLAM, and JUDAISM prohibit eating pork meat, an unclean animal, according to both religions. Personnally, even though I belong to neither of those religions, I didn't eat any pig meat in the last 18 years; in fact, I actually stopped eating pig meat and their derivates over 30 years ago, in 1974, and I assume that my body and soul thank me for that decision, especially that nowadays' pigs are boosted with hormones and are raised in most unnatural settings: I've even read that in some highly commercial farms, their piss is reintegrated into their drinking water, etc.

Nonetheless, according to an Ontario college teacher I knew around 1976, pigs are the most intelligent of animals, especially if they are raised in an environment that corresponds to their true nature, that being open fields, forest land, clean water and muddy spots, in which they can roll themselves in, so as to protect their skin from sun rays... It is a fact that pigs maybe taught all kinds of tricks, other than making piglets and bacon. Moreover, they are great for ploughing and fertilising a garden or a field... However, commercial animal farming doesn't bother respecting animals' true nature, for they are mostly motivated with profit: impeding a pig from running around too much makes them fat faster; but does it make them happy?

As for that tradition of Lunar years and dedicating a year on 12 to an animal, I like seeing as something else than "astrology"; I'd rather consider that it's a good idea to dedicate a whole year to an animal and that maybe during that year, humanity and governments should examine the conditions of that animal and improve it... But that is a truly utopic concept, I agree... There seemingly is another tradition related to the Chinese New Year: writing a haïku on the first day of the Lunar Year, would insure literary proficiency throughout the whole year: so, here we go...

Pig piglet poets
Its true deep nature respect:
Gardens must protect!

EXPLANATION: People who are sensitive, poets, to pigs and piglets true natural needs, know that these love roaming about, but also that they could cause havoc in a garden, by eating or ploughing it at the wrong time of the year. Therefore, in the best of worlds, one must fence off its gardens, so as to keep the pigs out during the growing season and in, when it's ploughing time: pigs walk, roll and run but vegetables and trees don't...

Finally, here's my artistic view of Pigs : a 1987 watercolor and Indian Ink painting of mine.

phonetic vowels consonants symbols

Click this gr@ph to see consonants

-- Djeault, 2006dec22.

mixing esl art heart and popups

Well, let's mix arts with English, or rather ESL.

Hi "Zhaxia"
I stumbled upon your blog this 2006dec05, in the afternoon, likely from François Guité's Blog. I saw your skilful art and that you created links from thumbs, so that us, visitors, may acknowledge that your drawings are actually drawn with straight lines, even though the end product does offer curves.

However, since your bigger im@ges are much too wide for my computer screen and my 600 x 800 px resolution, and since I thought it'd be nice to see your drawings as a whole, and also, since your 218 KB im@ge is a little bit heavy for people who might visit your blog with a dial up connection, I took upon myself to create the popup you'll get to, if you click the small thumb on the left. For your information and anyone else's, here's the code I used.

Moreover, I took off the superfluous white space all around your art picture and also greatly reduced it in size, so as to create a fairly light 44 KB im@ge that can be seen as a whole. Hoping all that may be useful, I send youz farewells!