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		<title>Bonne nouvelle année à toutes et à tous !</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2005 08:20:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Il fait pas mal longtemps depuis la dernière mise-à-jour du site. Cependent, il s&#8217;est passé un tas de choses pendent les deux derniers mois : trois voyages à Kyoto, un mariage, le Noël, et le début des vacances d&#8217;oshougatsu.  C&#8217;est ici qu&#8217;on aboutit à mes bonnes résolutions.  Je vous fais mes éxcuses en [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Il fait pas mal longtemps depuis la dernière mise-à-jour du site. Cependent, il s&#8217;est passé un tas de choses pendent les deux derniers mois : trois voyages à Kyoto, un mariage, le Noël, et le début des vacances d&#8217;<span class="romaji">oshougatsu</span>.  C&#8217;est ici qu&#8217;on aboutit à mes bonnes résolutions.  Je vous fais mes éxcuses en avance pour ne pas les respecter !</p>
<p>Eh bien, comme résolution je me suis décidé de bloguer en français aussi bien qu&#8217;en anglais cette année.  Le fréquence avec lequel j&#8217;écris en n&#8217;importe quelle langue me donne espoir d&#8217;être capable de le tenir.  Et pourquoi le français?  Bon, Il fait maintenant plus qu&#8217;une décénie depuis ma libération de l&#8217;école secondaire et le début de ma condamnation à sept ans d&#8217;éducation en astronomie et en ingénieurie à l&#8217;Université de Victoria.  Pendent ce temps, mon français se trouve rélégué dans un coin, négligé à l&#8217;excéption de quelques cours de litérature canadienne et, de temps en temps, un roman de Jacques Poulin ou de Gabrielle Roy.</p>
<p>Alors là, après une panne de 12 ans je m&#8217;engage cette année à remettre en marche mon français ; attachez vos tuques !</p>
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		<title>Look At All The Pretty Pictures</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2005 12:21:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Bracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I moved my webpage and was all of a sudden faced with a deluge of emails from people who I never even knew read the thing.  Among those emails was a request from my amigo Chaffee requesting more pictures.  Seeing as I&#8217;d always wanted to play with the Flickr API, I requested [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So I moved my webpage and was all of a sudden faced with a deluge of emails from people who I never even knew read the thing.  Among those emails was a request from my amigo Chaffee requesting more pictures.  Seeing as I&#8217;d always wanted to play with the <a href="http://flickr.com/services/">Flickr API</a>, I requested an API Key and started hacking away at some <a href="http://php.net/">PHP</a>.  The end result is that on the left side of this page, you now get to see whatever happens to be the latest picture I&#8217;ve taken on my mobile phone.<span id="more-23"></span></p>
<p>The moment I take a picture with my cellphone, it gets emailed to the magical servers at <a href="http://flickr.com/">Flickr</a> and tagged with a title, some keywords, and a description.  The next time someone loads this page, a small PHP script in the innards of this site makes a <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/soap/">SOAP</a> request to Flickr&#8217;s servers and retrieves an <a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/">XML</a> response.  This response is then parsed out and a URI to the thumbnail image on Flickr&#8217;s servers is generated which is then inserted into this page.  To improve performance a tiny bit, I avoid the overhead of the SOAP call every time this page is loaded by caching the response for five minutes and reading the cached XML if it&#8217;s available.</p>
<p>For those of you who are into <a href="http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/18/dive-into-xml.html">RSS</a>, I&#8217;ve added a <a href="feed://flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?id=37996625178@N01&#038;format=atom_03">Flickr feed</a> to my pictures in the HTML headers on this site.</p>
<p>My goal — and this is entirely for you, Chaffee — is to take at least one picture a day, which is far more ambitious a schedule than my posting to this page.  We&#8217;ll see how that works out.</p>
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		<title>Site Update</title>
		<link>http://cbracken.com/blog/2003/04/01/site-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2003 05:35:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Bracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I finally got around to updating and re-organizing the site.  It should render properly in everything from the latest browser to your cell phone.  All the reports from Mérida are now up, including links to photos at the top of each page.  The trip home is still a work in progress.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I finally got around to updating and re-organizing the site.  It should render properly in everything from the latest browser to your cell phone.  All the reports from Mérida are now up, including links to photos at the top of each page.  The trip home is still a work in progress.</p>
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