I bought my first computer in 1980 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It had a Z80 at 4 MHz, 64K of RAM and two 8-inch floppy disks of 600K Bytes. I bought my current laptop in 2018. It came with Windows 10. On

I have been playing the Rising Star game on Hive for over 4 years This is the kind of idle game, and it does not include any period of extreme excitation like there is that I like. You can play it every

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The Chronicle and the Collective Both my parents were part of a big family in France: one of 10 children and the other of 11 children. In 1952, independently, my two grandfathers started what one called

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This weekend was Thanksgiving in Canada. More accurately Thanksgiving Day was last Monday, October 14th, the second Monday of October. In the United States of America, Thanksgiving is much later, on the

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2020: Welcoming Hive and leaving Steemit In 2020, when the Hive blockchain was created from a fork of the Steem blockchain, I immediately started to blog on Hive. For less than two months, I posted on

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Giving up on Mt. Gox. After I lost 104 Bitcoins in the Mt. Gox disaster, I followed the instructions of the Japanese lawyers dealing with the bankruptcy: I gave them my email address and my mailing address,

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May 2011: I bought my first Bitcoins I discovered Bitcoins in May 2011. I learned about it probably from Slashdot. As soon as I discovered Bitcoin, I was sure that it would be a major event. I read the

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In 1963, my parents already had 10 children. To find places to spend vacations for the whole family that were not too expensive was not easy. One of my father's cousins lived with his family and his mother

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Two days ago, I traveled from my wife's house in Pécs, Hungary, to our family house in Breil, France. I left my wife at 6:15 AM and I arrived at the house in France at 10:30 PM. For more than 14 hours

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# Weekend in Budapest: Buda Castle, Hungarian Parliament, Danube in flood. Last Saturday, we were invited by my sister-in-law Ili (Ilona) and her boyfriend Mátyás to spend the weekend with them in Budapest.

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Máré-vár, a Hungarian castle. Yesterday, with my wife Kati and her friend Trudy who came to visit us from British Columbia, we went to visit a Hungarian castle: Máré-vár. It is a small castle that is not