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On gapingvoid:how to be creative: People walking past the bar on the way to the bathroom would see this jittery, unkempt guy in a tweed jacket on a barstool, doodling furiously and wonder what was up. Sometimes they’d look at... In a comment on Pyrasun 2.0 - The Spille Blog: Action Hippo Rangers!: Ha! As the population of the world increases, the sum of its IQ remains a constant. Great article on what seems now to be called ping-pong development,... In an article dealing with knowledge workers, Managing for Creativity by Richard Florida and Jim Goodnight (CEO of SAS Institute), on the Harvard Business Review, can be read: Stimulate their minds. SAS operates on the belief that invigorating mental work... After my previous entry entitled Structured graphics, diagramming, graphs and networks in Java one month ago, here come this new entry about web proxies, starting my researches from the article Open Source Personal Proxy Servers Written In Java of Manageability.... After my previous entries MindManager-like in Java and Knowledge Visualization Applets in Java, here come my notes about and around: Open Source Structured Graphics Libraries Written in Java ; Open Source Graph or Network Visualization Written in Java. The Network... For those who do not already own a Gmail account: For those of you who still don't have Gmail accounts, now that Gmail has given many people over 50 invitations, the isnoop.net gmail invite spooler has over 1.5 million invitations... You will have to activate APM to use the poweroff command (see the reboot(8) man for more information). From the NetBSD Documentation, document Power Management for Laptops, section Configuring NetBSD APM Support: First off, you need to compile a kernel... From The NetBSD Guide, part II. System installation and related issues, chapter 5. The first boot, section 5.3. Changing the keyboard layout: The keyboard still has the US layout; if you have a different keyboard it's better to change its... While preparing my entry about styling languages, I re-discovered many dialect translators. For example, if you want plugins for your weblog, you can easily get: For MovableType: MovableJive. For WordPress: the Text Filter Suite Plugin for WordPress (story in the... Happy New Year! To start this promising year, I would like to mention the availability of the paper Computer Programming as an Art from Donald E. Knuth, author of The Art of Computer Programming, written for the 1974 A.M. Turing... Yes! you can now manipulate Microsoft PowerPoint files in Java, thanks to Tonic Systems, but it is not free: the complete Java PowerPoint Library; the lighter and less expensive PowerPoint Text Extraction Library. If you want a free solution, you... ganttproject (open source); jxProject (not open source).... NuSphere Tech Platform 3.4 for Windows (download page here for the Windows version, but there is also a Linux version). It comes with: Apache 1.3.31 web server; PHP 4.3.7 scripting language; PHP Debugger v2.16.9. ... and a lot more!... Continuation from my previous entry about regular expressions: RegExpEditor from WaterProof, makers of PHPEdit.... For my new web project (whose temporary name is SmartyPot) I plan to use a strict way of coding in PHP. That is to say: unit testing, logging, debugging and profiling. For unit testing, we can rely on two packages:... Marie: Which File Extension are You? Me: Which File Extension are You?... This collection of links is brought to you in order to rediscover with me the fabulous world of regular expressions. I am currently using a lot of regexp in the typographic engine I am building. Books by O'Reilly: Mastering Regular... Live here by Dream Theater: Home (Live) from Through Her Eyes, the EP of Metropolis Pt.2: Scenes From A Memory. Well, James LaBrie screams a bit too loud, but this live version is musicaly interesting.... I watched Evanescence's Live at Rock in Rio Lisboa (Portugal) almost three times, and I must confess it's certainly not their best live performance. There are good things, like the more and more rocking voice of Amy Lee, the show... TF1 shall have a policy that George-Alain is the best guitar hero in the world. I am hopefully wrong... mea culpa. Amen to the Star Academy!... Yeah, man!... skudfisher. Thanks to Jackie for the link.... Ou alors, y'en a des plus lucides que d'autres... I took their smiles and I made them mine. I sold my soul just to hide the light. And now I see what I really am, A thief a whore, and... On Peter Saint-Andre's one small voice. A Program: Electioneering, or the lack thereof. I doubt I will vote this year (or, perhaps, ever again). I am beginning to see that seeking change through politics is simply the wrong way to... Casual sex and crash-landing cows (via The Old New Thing: Norway: Pros and cons)...... ... cos nobody's home. This far phantom among deep darkness, yeah, maybe he's the only echo from the past not to be one of these disappearing illusions, ... cos I wasn't a vanishing dream. Let's start a vacuum cleaning of... I ordered Kangol hats and glasses this week on the KangolStore. The order confirmation was really funny: You will look great with your new Kangol purchase, and look five years younger. You’ll be fighting them off when you leave the... Okay, it's now time for all of you to taste my sounds. This section deals with all my musical activities, past and present, and you can hear many old works in mp3. Some of you knew the existence of this... I am now using James Seng's Bayesian filter for MT to fight spam in comments and trackbacks on this website. If you see an entry with n comments but you are not able to read these comments, they were actually... Let's start with two interviews of Amy Lee from Evanescence (via EvBoard.com: New (Old) Ev Articles *UPDATED*). The Point Web-Only Interview: Amy Lee of Evanescence Interview by Adron Buske Transcribed by Amanda Rodgers: very interesting, with a good question about... Success is defined by today's MTV icons through material gain. Real artists like guitarist Tim Donahue and Dream Theater singer James LaBrie define success as the progression and evolution of their music; if fame and fortune happen to be part... Tonight and yesterday's night, I dreamed of Evanescence. The first dream was about Amy Lee. I was doing a personal interview of this drama queen in her house, asking her about many things: the life, music and the rest. All... Available on YtseJam Records website: When Day and Dream Unite Demos 1987-1989 (2 CD); Tokyo, Japan 10/28/95 (2 CD); Master Of Puppets (1 CD).... Someone seems to have listened to me: in Draft: Introduction to (IoC) Container Internals (LSD::RELOAD), Leo Simons introduces his new paper, an Introduction to (IoC) Container Internals. I've just read the beginning and must confess I understood nothing... Same result... Tonight I ordered the german version of the MAXI single Bring Me To Life from Evanescence, which contains the title Missing (I only own the Enhanced MAXI single with Farther Away and the video of BMTL). BUT I ordered it... Seeker of the mysterious arts, speak Mu Ahm, the mantra of Truth. Seeker of honor and valor in battle, speak Summ Ra, the mantra of Courage. Seeker of the mastery of practical skills, speak Om Cah, the mantra of Love.... A few weeks ago, Ben Moody opened his own website: just a few news for the moment, but this guy seems to have many projects in his pocket: musical projects and... movies projects! More on VH1.com's Artist Main: Evanescence: Ben... On Peter Saint-Andre's weblog (one small voice: Aristocrats All): Roderick Long reflects on the idea of individualist anarchism as a universalization of aristocracy. He quotes George Woodcock: In reality the ideal of anarchism, far from being democracy carried to its... In 2010, M$ Windows will be a quantum processing emulation layer for a 128-bit mod of a 64-bit hack of a 32-bit patch to a 16-bit GUI for an 8-bit operating system written for a 4-bit processor from a 2-bit... Music activism seems to be in the air (Downhill Battle). I am personally not a pro-RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), but on the other side I am not against (things could change). Okay, fight the RIAA to get good... For sure, that would really be a good idea to make one cartoon with rovers :-). Hey, Pixar! Do you hear me? The movie, local mirror here (you need QuickTime). (Via Joi Ito's Web: Why the rover failed...)... The Difference Between Cats and Dogs EXCERPTS FROM A DOG'S DIARY -- Day number 180 8:00 am - OH BOY! DOG FOOD! MY FAVORITE! 9:30 am - OH BOY! A CAR RIDE! MY FAVORITE! 9:40 am - OH BOY!... Statement of Audience I realize that nothing I say matters to anyone else on the entire planet. My opinions are useless and unfocused. I am an expert in nothing. I know nothing. I am confused about almost everything. I cannot,... Yeah! that's a good idea. When I will have re-installed all my music software and plugged mics and MIDI cables, I might try to do some musical patterns blogging: read, watch and hear the creative process step after step. At... Last year, when talking drums with Emmanuel, I said him I did some percussions in my childhood and that with time I discovered in me small aptitudes to write scores for percussions. As a small example, I released a remix... Guys from musicplasma developped a graph engine to display musical links between bands; you can also navigate through them and hear edits of songs. I think all is developped on the AWS SDK (Amazon Web Services Software Development Kit). Nevertheless,... Maybe the best: TWiki. I think I will install this one on this website to be able to develop some points a bit further. Here is an example of a wiki about Movable Type (via Virtual Venus in MT Wiki):... For my security needs on my personal computer, I use Grisoft AVG Anti-Virus 6.0, with a licence (it comes in a security bundle from my bank in its Internet pack: Carte ou Formule BNP Net). But I am always searching... Well, I was working, teaching, reading and creating a new website. Can I introduce you to Jean-Philippe Leboeuf - recherches 1999-2004? This is my french website where you will be able to find pieces of my research activities. There are... I was expecting it would be harder, but no: this is very easy and it worked at first sight! Before processing to the migration, you can read good stories on elise.com: On the Job. The first step is to find... Ouff!!! Back to the blogosphere! Happy New Year! For those of you who did not know, my notebook disappeared in early december, following a DNS change made by my previous hosting service (go2.fr). They never contacted me to inform my... And I know perfectly that Dantec does not love Werber ;-).... Yes ;) Many things to come, starting next week (-end?)... After my month of Java lazy coding, the W3Framework (Wittycube Framework) is going on very fast and the first application using it, Atlas, is close to be running completely (in... First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. Then they came... Yesterday (today in my slided world) I went to GrosBill Micro. There I bought an adaptator to connect my mobile harddrive to my computer (in fact a complete kit with screws and rails). I fought a long time to find... After my rant against the way the bugs-proness of operating systems are taken into account (Windows vs. Linux), here are two stories about Linux hacking/cracking, which seems to be more appreciated by hackers/crackers: Linux hacks hit all-time high on vnunet.com;... You loved X-Men and The Matrix. You always wanted to see both mixed in a movie. A kind of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (reviews 1 and 2 on Bright Lights Film Journal) located in a highschool. With a bit... Two articles about C++: What's wrong with C++ templates? on Kuro4hin (via OSNews.com: What's Wrong with C++ Templates?); Understanding C++ Program Structure on InformIT (via OSNews.com: Understanding C++ Program Structure). The article Understanding C++ Program Structure is in fact a... On LinuxWorld.com: A first look at Ximian Desktop 2: Next, I checked to see which games Ximian had installed for me. I discovered by clicking on More at the bottom of the list that Ximian had found and added the... Two links to learn: a fun history of the Internet (not very sharp, sometime wrong) on The Lemon: The History of The Internet (via kasia in a nutshell: Telling it like it is); Java Profiles: James Gosling Bio (on Focus... Please read and apply: learn how to ask smart questions: How To Ask Questions The Smart Way by Eric Steven Raymond and Rick Moen; learn how to report bugs: How to Report Bugs Effectively by Simon Tatham (and bad bug... The MIT Media Laboratory has always new (and stupid?) ideas. Take a look at its new social experiment... and judge... (Via Jeremy Zawodny's blog: Ready, Aim, ...)... Want benchmarks? But for coffee machines? Hard to find? No, just go to CoffeeGeek! (Via raelity bytes: Coffee Geek)... Edge. To arrive at the edge of the world's knowledge, seek out the most complex and sophisticated minds, put them in a room together, and have them ask each other the questions they are asking themselves.... I've just received my three boxes of The Best of L'Arc~En~Ciel, the new step in the discography of the japenese pop (J-Pop) band L'Arc~En~Ciel, directly coming from Japan (cdjapan.co.jp store): The Best of L'Arc-en-Ciel 1994-1998 [Initial pressing only limited... After reading this entry from Paolo Valdemarin about Food blogging (more info here in a previous entry) and watching the beautiful photo effect, I wanted to do the same thing. I tried to mimic the effect with the command line... While writing the previous post, it came to my mind I absolutely need a stylesheet which can handle big portion of code, with very long lines. The question is for example: how to automaticaly cut an URL inside an anchor... It could be very useful to display your online status on your weblog, that is to say which instant messaging network you are connected on when someone is visiting your website. Almost all instant messaging companies are providing tools to... I have fixed a small bug in the stylesheet of this website. Now you can comfortably look at the archives of this blog. But I definitively do not know when I will find time to go on with the refactoring...... Joi Ito went to his favorite restaurant to eat Japanese snapping turtle, or suppon. It looks absolutely delicious, but I must confess it will be very hard to find this kind of meal in a japanese restaurant installed in... Sorry for my lack of entries this week... I was very busy sleeping or thinking (it depends on the point of view). I will try to fix this state of my timetable beginning... right now!... What is happening after an electricity lost of power to your computer? Ah... ah... good question. Here are the results based on what I get when two of the computers of my lab tried/succeeded to restart: my workstation (Sun Solaris... Last week I was very happy to go to work after another ultra white night. But my courage (great courage...) was awarded: spring was here. Moreover, through my way to the train station, I saw a hilarious and wonderful... This website is under heavy reconstruction. I will explain all in the following days, publish my scripts and templates, and give my inspirations. But for the moment, you shall consider this website as a work in progress (best viewed at... For those like me who do not understand clearly english words related to security, here they are defined by questions: Confidentiality: Can prying eyes see it? Authentication: Are you who you say you are? Trust: Have I agreed to work... Structorian, the tools you need to view and edit binary data: Structorian is, essentially, a viewer and editor for structured binary data. After you describe the structure of your data in a special language, Structorian enables you to view and... It seems to me the Gecko engine of Phoenix is performing better than Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.... Maybe some of you know that I am fond of typography. Books are an easy place to apply all these rules, but the web is our enemy. I have found quite a few links (mostly french, but one in... As said in my previous post about Calogero's latest album, I love this artist! So, as usual with me, I bought the previous one: Au milieu des autres. A different sound, maybe too much in the spirit of Pascal... Yo! This is my first post on this weblog, MY weblog! I will try to improve it with the time (and to improve my english the same time lol). I hope to have my own look'n'feel before the end...