Daydreaming is excellent for your brains

Boy! Back in 1982 as I am listening to Prince's Purple Rain (right now Father's song is playing). As far as I can recall my dad asked me to study the school's brochure during my holidays in order to improve my English.

One note from a teacher, soon to be followed by others, mentioned that the French student is "a daydreamer".

Well, Almost 27 years later (God, playing!) the french magazine Le nouvel Obs proves me right with this article based on a scientific study ran by Kalina Christoff (check the papers at Christofflab).

The news in English http://www.examiner.com/x-1242-Science-News-Examiner~y2009m5d12-Feel-free-to-let-your-mind-wander
http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2009/05/daydreams_1.php

The original study lead by Kalina Christoff can be purchased here http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2009/05/11/0900234106

Welcome to wanderland!

$700 to become a monk

A very interesting article from Courrier International had a catchy title "700 dollars to become a monk"... Australian head of a non governmental agency, Ben Bowler created www.monkforamonth.com

If I could I would go to Cambodia, Thailand or Japan and try, like my friend Antoine in Cambodia or André in Thailand or with the monks in Meiji Jingu in Harajuku, Tokyo.

FaceBook profile : http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fang-Thailand/Monk-for-a-Month/35067157310
Twitter : http://twitter.com/monkforamonth

Our future work... from TIME

As I do not communicate anymore with my prospective friend, here's an article with the latest trends when it come to work. Time magazine remains at the edge of time

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1898024_1898023,00.html

French video makes a hit over the internet (not my friend)

This for Antoine... Come back rue Montorgueil for a Beauty Patrol...

Make The Girl Dance "Baby Baby Baby" ( official video )
by placeblancherec

e leash?

Are we 'kept in leash' as we use mobile phones? This is the main reaction to an article published in Libération about a monthly mobile service subscription for poor people (€10/month). The article is entitled "it is discriminating not to have a mobile"...

You can check the French article here

Given that my mobile became :

• a communication mean whether voice centric or verbose (text messages and MMS)
  
• a contact vault
• a secondary camera for pictures (8MP max, for now) and video
  
• a secondary audio (MP3/MP4/AAC)
  
• a secondary video player (H264)
• a secondary and limited game station
  
• a convenient storage
• a wireless remote control
• anything else?

A real Nikon specialist... Choulan

When I got my Nikon D70 I wondered how many pictures I took. As I browsed the internet to find answers, I downloaded ShootNum. This software gave the answers I was looking for. That software has been developed by Choulan.

You can check the following pages in french:

• depth of field http://choulan.free.fr/pages/pdc.php
  
• his gallery http://choulan.free.fr/phildes/index.htm
• special curves for Nikon (yes it will make your D100 & S70 brand new, like a rejuvination) http://choulan.free.fr/pages/courbes/courbes_nikon.htm

I also found this site http://photo.net/nikon/
http://www.adorama.com/INKD2X.html?searchinfo=D2X

Vanna Phat Village in Cambodia

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My endeavours...