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My English, non-French readers are not familiar with the Pontonews articles, so I'll quickly explain. I have been publishing on this weblog my (mostly computer-related) articles written for my high school's newspaper (you can read the previous one if you understand French). I never took the time to translate them, but since this one is an interview which was conducted in English, I thought it didn't take much effort to make an English version.

The interviewee here is Mr Tom "Macintosh Doctor" Johnson, from Purdue University (Indiana, USA), who (as indicated by his nickname) is a Macintosh system administrator. The transcript was typed back from a recording and edited to rephrase what I thought to be incorrect in written English. The interview is published under the Creative Commons BY-SA 2.5 license (with Mr Johnson's permission). He also asked me to warn my readers of possible errors in factual data, which was given from memory and may not be accurate. (This disclaimer was originally included in the introduction to the article, which was written in French and scrapped from this English version.)

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Ugly, quick, dirty, and almost too late, here's a poster for Towel Day.

• main.pdf, PDF document ;
• main.tar.gz, source archive (images and ODT document) ;

Document under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. The images in XCF format must be converted in PNG for the ODT document to display them.

Have a nice Towel Day !

Now, some music. I don't have much time to waffle. Piano improvisation, around 13 minutes, no title. Recorded "as is", I didn't edit the files in any way.

• impro.flac, lossless codec FLAC (35,1 Mo)
• impro.ogg, lossy codec OGG Vorbis (8,5 Mo)
• impro.mp3, lossy codec MP3 (non-free, less efficient than OGG Vorbis) (11,9 Mo)

OGG Vorbis and FLAC can be read by VLC (free software), download address: http://www.videolan.org/.

Music is under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License.