I am changing the hosting company for my main website (poirrier.be). I am leaving Amen because they became very costly (more than 80 € per year for only 50Mb). After considering B-one (problem: they forbid videos on your website, even if you are the producer), I finally chose Online (a little bit more than 30 € per year for 500Mb, they are not the cheapest but I know they are reliable). In less than an afternoon, DNS from Online to the university were already up-to-date. I hope that the transition will be as transparent as possible for everyone.

P.S.: the only problem I encountered with Online is that they don’t allow any dash (“-“)in e-mail login. I will then be obliged to switch my e-mail address from “jean-etienne” to “jeanetienne” at poirrier.be. Other family members don’t have this dash-problem and you can use their e-mail address as usual.

Since a long time, I decided to provide a better stylesheet and organization for my website (the previous one was too simple but quite ugly). Now, you have a menu on the left and a RSS feed for the last changes. In fact, I use two stylesheets: a “big” one for displaying pages on your screen and a very small one that your browser will call if you decide to print a page (it removes the menu – useless when printing a page – and also removes most of the fancy styles). It is still simple but I hope it’s more beautiful.

I am back to my blog. Since I am interested in many things, I would like to share them with you: neuroscience (mainly memory stuff), Open Access to scientific litterature, Open Source software and computer science. I see this blog like an on-line notepad, for small notes, thoughts, etc. And I am sometimes too lazy to publish them on my own website.