About
Me
I was born and raised in Pointe-Lebel, a small francophone village in Quebec, Canada. After completing high school there in 1995, I moved to British-Columbia to learn English and made it my home for the following eleven years. I earned my undergraduate degree in physics with a minor in philosophy and my teaching certification from Simon Fraser University in 2006.
The following fall, I joined Hsinchu International School in Taiwan as a mathematics teacher, sometimes also teaching physics, helping with the music program and the integration of technology in the one-to-one laptop program. In the summer of 2010, I came back to my hometown to be with my family for a year. There, I taught mathematics and physics at the Cégep de Baie-Comeau on a sessional basis. I am now excited to be back in Vancouver after a five-year absence.
On my spare times I study a bit of Chinese, enjoy cycling, mountain biking, and rock climbing. I’m also a bit of a geek who likes to ponder the relationships between technology and society.
This Site
This site has two main functions:
- I use it to reflect and share ideas with others.
- I use it organize the other parts of the Internet that I also inhabit.
Here are a few technical details:
- Blog and Portal: I use WordPress with the iNove theme.
- Wiki: I use DokuWiki hosted on my old iBook G4 at home with Pagekite giving me a static address. (It used to be hosted on BYET Internet Service, having followed these instructions)
- Webfolder: It’s a folder on my iBook G4 where I use the webfolder.sh script that I wrote to create the html files. (I used to use Dropbox with instructions that I wrote here)
- Pictures: I use Google’s Picassa Web
- Videos: I use Youtube
