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Pierre and his Poor Pathetic Page

(Est. May 1997)

VOIR VERSION FRANCAISE

I am Pierre Sarrazin, a computer programmer who lives in Montréal.

I have published the following Free software (distributed under the GNU General Public License):

  • Verbiste: a French conjugation system with a GNOME applet
  • BurgerSpace: a clone of the game BurgerTime
  • Sagasu: a GNOME tool to find strings in a set of files
  • BoolStuff: a C++ library that supports the conversion of boolean expressions to the disjunctive normal form
  • Afternoon Stalker: a clone of the game Night Stalker
  • Batrachians: a clone of the game Frog Bog
  • Cosmosmash: a clone of the game Astrosmash

Sometimes, I happen to cough.

Email: sarrazip at sarrazip dot com or sarrazip at b2b2c dot ca. (No HTML please.)

Q: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
A: Why is top posting frowned upon?

* Image published under the GFDL

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What's New


A day in the life of a pizza driver
(July 13, 2009)

A Cleveland reporter accompanies a pizza delivery driver for an evening.
[Miscellaneous; Curiosities]

Slice
(July 3, 2009)

Mmmm... blog about pizza...
[Miscellaneous; Curiosities]

IntelliWiki
(January 18, 2009)

A wiki on the Intellivision, a video game console from the early eighties. This site teaches how to program this console and how to run the programs in a emulator (jzIntv, of which I use the GNU/Linux version).
[Computers; Programming]

Spacing Montréal
(January 18, 2009)

This site is a blog on Montréal's architecture and streets where one can see photos, both recent and old, as well as comments from citizens on the history and evolution of this city.
[Miscellaneous; Curiosities]

Whence comes Quebec's accent? And that of Parisians?
(November 27, 2008)

This is the translated title of a book by Jean-Denis Gendron on the origins of these two accents of the French language. In this video, Gendron explains his findings. In summary, the people of New France had the same accent as in Paris, and the latter changed their accent around 1800, which is after the invasion of New France by the British empire.
[Miscellaneous; Literature]

Hardware to give away
(January 8, 2008)

A list of old PC hardware that I want to get rid of. (I live in Montréal.)
[Computers; Miscellaneous]