Loosless Translation

I am writing this from Amman airport.

I took a plane from Montreal. The trip took about 11 hours. (The plane was 1 hour late ).

So I will have a vacation finally.

This week, we finally managed to install a wiki system in our lab.

http://satchmo.ece.mcgill.ca:7777/site/

After several tries out, we decided to use the book module of Drupal.

People can now start adding their content. We hope that this will enhance the communication and documentation in the lab.

A new thrill-mystery novel “The Safadi Code”, was announced yesterday in Damascus:
Sami Safadi, a medical student, discovered by chance mysterious scrap papers in his uncle house.
Sami, led by curiosity, used his computing skills to decipher the papers. A process that led him to discover unpublished works of Al-Khaourzmi, a brilliant Arabic mathematician, buried in the ruins of Damascus citadel.
Alas, Sami found that these works are written in a strange ancient language. Sami immediately called his brother, the machine translation expert Hani to help him.
Hani was arrested by unknown gangsters in his way to see Sami. But being such a brave man, he managed to escape miraculously from these thugs.
He managed to secure Sami, and together went to inform the security origanization (KRED). However, the KRED turned to be a part of the gang, and they held Hani and Sami in their dungeons.
The two brothers were in a miserable situation. Suddenly, a masked girl enters the dungeons, frees the brothers, then disappears.
Hani and Sami, followed by the security and the gangs, will move from a Syrian city to another, to solve the mystery of these scripts, and discover the terrible secret that will change their lives forever.

Here is a list of films that represent the culture and history of Quebec, that my french teacher JM Limoges suggested.

Quels sont les films à voir pour comprendre la « culture québécoise »?
Voici, en vrac, quelques titres :

« The October Crisis of 1970 », Robin Spry (1973)
« Les Ordres », Michel Brault (1974)
« Octobre », Pierre Falardeau (1994)
« Le confort et l’indifférence », Denys Arcand (1981)
« Elvis Gratton », Pierre Falardeau (1985)
« Le Déclin de l’empire américain », Denys Arcand (1986)
« Jésus de Montréal », Denys Arcand (1994)
« Eldorado » (1995), « Le coeur au poing » (1998) et « La beauté de Pandore
» (2000), Charles Binamé
« Les Invasion barbares », Denys Arcand (2003)
« Que Dieu bénisse l’Amérique », Robert Morin (2006)

Et aussi :
« Comme les six doigts de la main », André Melançon (1978)
« La Guerre des Tuques », André Melançon (1994)
« Léolo », Jean-Claude Lauzon (1992)
« C.R.A.Z.Y. », Jean-Marc Vallé (2004)

De même que :
« Maurice Richard », Charles Binamé (2005)

I would also add to this:

A License to Remember: Je me souviens.
Thierry Le Brun (Director). Adam Symansky (Producer).
Montreal, PQ: National Film Board of Canada, 2002.

and

“Gaz Bar Blues”

A new web page!

I was always lazy to create a personal web page.

And after many years I end up having three of them on different free hosting services.

I had problems on all of them, why? Because adding content requires me to write code and upload it (some of them have simple page builders), people cannot communicate with me through the website, and more importantly ADS.

With this WordPress site, I hope that I will finally come up with a stable site, that combines blogging, with other content, and allows me to get feedback from all over the world.

So keep in touch!

Hani