Bart B. Van Bockstaele

Contact Me: I have chosen to disable the contact feature, because it is really annoying to use. However, do feel free to contact me for any comments you may have. Please go to the About page at HouseOfQuack.com to find my current e-mail address. My name is Bart B. Van Bockstaele and I am a computer programmer turned author and translator who has been living in Toronto since 1996. As a translator, I specialize in IT-subjects, financial subjects and scientific subjects, mainly medical and pharmaceutical subjects. I translate from/into English and Dutch/Flemish. As an author, I have written five books and co-authored two books, all on computer programming and other computer-related subjects. I am currently working on two projects which are not computer related. I love technology, not because it is “cool” but because of what it can do for me. I have a passion for the Japanese culture and language. I sing enka, practice Japanese classical dancing (nihonbuyou), kitsuke (kimono dressing) and wasai (Japanese tailoring). Living in Toronto, a green city with some amazing urban wildernesses, I love to go for walks and bike rides in Toronto’s parks and ravines. I like to take pictures, and I am active as a turtle tallier and frog watcher for the Toronto Zoo. I am also doing research into snake mortality in Toronto. I maintain a website with a focus on Toronto. It can be found at thamno.com. Until I created the House of Quack, I posted my skeptical articles there as well. I am the Canadian blogger for De Standaard, a major Dutch newspaper in Belgium (in Dutch). I am the Toronto correspondent for Wereldnet, a program of the Dutch World Service. This is a link to most of the programs in which I have appeared between 2001 and 2008 (in Dutch). More recent programs are hosted elsewhere, but because of the different organisation of the new Wereldnet website, I cannot provide a link, yet. Recently, I was invited to become the science columnist for newz4u.net, something I have gladly accepted. Some of my articles can be found on Digital Journal, a Canada-based so-called citizen journalists site. I am a member of CASS, the Committee for the Advancement of Scientific Skepticism.