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Work and Life Balance: work in progress
On Feld Thoughts in Discovering Work Life Balance: As I discovered what balance meant to me, the rules evolved into a set of habits which – among others – include (1) Spend Time Away, (2) Life Dinner, (3) Segment Space,...
Sale temps pour l'innovation
Creativity while being overwhelmed by wolves
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...
PanIQ!
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,...
Show me the money!
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...
Web proxy systems, mainly in Java
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....
Two free audio tools for Windows
Structured graphics, diagramming, graphs and networks in Java
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...
Easy Gmail account
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...
N'oublions pas BitTorrent
Formalism
Des outils pour eMule
Autour d'eMule
Les sites incontournables pour l'ADSL en France
Powering off the computer with NetBSD
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...
French keyboard on NetBSD
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...
Stephen on a not so big revolution
Stereotyped or humorous dialect filters
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 with a bit of Computers History
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...
Knowledge Visualization Applets in Java
Completion on the Web
Databinding in Java
Resolving dependencies, building and releasing in Java
Reading and writing PowerPoint files with Java
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...
Powerful new search engine
Online documentation for Java libraries
MindManager-like in Java
Free project management tools in Java
ganttproject (open source); jxProject (not open source)....
Another library in Java for Regular Expressions
Carte de Paris des jouebeurs
My revenge on spammers
WINE: second glass
Interesting development platform for PHP on Windows
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!...
Another regexp tester
Continuation from my previous entry about regular expressions: RegExpEditor from WaterProof, makers of PHPEdit....
Advanced programming tools for PHP
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:...
Quizz again...
Mono intelligence
Couple of extensions
Marie: Which File Extension are You? Me: Which File Extension are You?...
Rediscovery of Regular Expressions
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...
Main styling and markups formatting languages for XHTML: a few notes
Abstract the form, Luke
Victimologie du talent
Bibliologie romanesque
Diptyque en noir
Le capitaine Vassart
La menace venue des bois... l'explication !
Do you know that bad girls go to hell?
Promesse charnelle
Bats are back!
First introduction to progressive metal
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....
From wishes to... almost nothing?
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...
Travaux en perspective
Rhapsody en demi-teinte
La Fnac gothique
George-Alain: definitively the best! I was wrong.
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!...
Six months after
La nouvelle Chantal Goya
My work sucks rocks
Yeah, man!...
Thirteen and fifteen
La menace venue des bois
Lubrifiant
Le petit insecte
Toujours ces piafs !
Ces piafs !
L'exercice du pouvoir galactique
Gothique chic
Liens culturels
Are you pac-man-ized?
Talentuous guy
skudfisher. Thanks to Jackie for the link....
Evanescence endorsements
Un jour certaines s'en rendront compte
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...
Other reasons why I do not vote
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...
N'est-il point plus rassurant ?
Abonnement futuristique
Norway: the place to rest?
Casual sex and crash-landing cows (via The Old New Thing: Norway: Pros and cons)......
Z'auriez pas un m'choir ?
Next emptiness?
This is where she lies...
... 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...
The cream for your head!
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...
Aveugle parfois aussi
Une chouette invention
Perfection
Des relans de pas assez
Trop, parfois
Un cri contre l'incorrection
Une petite voix m'a dit
New section on this website: musical works
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...
Fighting spam
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...
Thoughts about Evanescence and other bands
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...
Wannabe a superstarz?
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...
From goth to goth
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...
Second installment of YtseJam Records bootlegs!!!
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)....
Wandering in IoC lands
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...
Faut que je retrouve le nom de ce jeu...
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....
Moody strikes back
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...
lim(Anarchism) ?=? Aristocracy
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...
Il est de retour!
M$ Quantum
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...
Ambient stupidity
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...
One rover going mad
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...)...
Cats and Dogs
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!...
YASNS = YAWoL
Useless virtual presence
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,...
Le coffret OOS arrive!
Christisme cramoisien
Musical blogging!
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...
Some things for your hearing
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...
Qu'il est beau avec son sabre!
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,...
Troubles around Evanescence
Wiki in Perl
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):...
An extended year in review: music
Free anti-virus software
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...
The essence of life in a Korn Shell?
You know for past december, but november?
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...
Moving Movable Type to a new host
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...
Blog is back! New resolutions
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...
Franchissement de murs
Le grand saut
Beigbeder et awareness
Beigbeder et le ressassement de soi
Tour-ista
Un penseur d'aujourd'hui
De la didactique historique
La constitution d'une nation comme folie
This guy does not have ears
Post Scriptum about Werber and Dantec ;)
And I know perfectly that Dantec does not love Werber ;-)....
Werber: un Dantec soft ?
I am alive!
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...
Go dumb
A bit of Alpha Malehood...
One good definition of Rammstein
Publications
Even more on Howard Dean
For Joyance: Neo and Primo
Tour de France en Segway ?...
Too much sex... now everywhere!
More on Centrino laptops
Choosing the appropriate words with E.T.s
More on Howard Dean...
Weblogs as campaign tools
USA need to fight themselves
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...
Too much sex... even on cool websites
Un homme fou (?) mais terriblement prolifique
Backup of my notebook done
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...
Puissamment Rammstein
Do not forget to be secure!
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;...
A glorious death
Volcano High
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...
Misc about C++
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...
Using Eclipse Java Development Tools (JDT)
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...
A bit of history
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...
The right way to ask questions online
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 day when the real joystick came to life
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, ...)...
Fond of coffee?
Want benchmarks? But for coffee machines? Hard to find? No, just go to CoffeeGeek! (Via raelity bytes: Coffee Geek)...
A wind of cognitive sciences
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....
Inside the software development process
What branch of the tree is safer?
The butterfly is not all ;)
If you go to New York...
Science Fiction drives Computing Science
What Amazon can do for you
A new popularity indicator from Google
The Best of L'Arc~En~Ciel
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...
Colin Wilson, mysticisme : quelques liens
DELL LATITUDE D600 on Linux: quick bookmarks
The Making-Of a Blog: dropping shadows
The Making-Of a Blog: adding a photo-like border to your images
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...
I need to work on my stylesheet
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...
The Making-Of a Blog: displaying your online status
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...
Small visual bug corrected
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......
After the french japenese restaurant, the real one
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...
I do not want to work in a fastfood!
Too few entries this week
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!...
Prison de verre
An OS crash test
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...
Spring is here!
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...
The japanese restaurant before the WC
Welcome to the world of KarabOS!
Heavy reconstruction
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...
Ode
Commentaires sur Nouvelles sous ecstasy
Fureur d'achats
Les lectures du moment
A new life for DOS software?
Dictionary of Security aspects
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...
French cultural theorists and DVD
Another test, mutant this time
Another temperament test
French influence to be removed from American English: is it a joke?
A must have for hackers
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...
Only for girls
Must Free Software applications stand united?
The american way of being God
Vivre sa vie comme un chien
Unix versus Microsoft philosophies
USB RAID array on Mac OS X
Les autres me font vomir
April Fools
Typography with MT
Why I love BASIC
Java rich clients against HTML poor clients
Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists... and now, for Politicians?
It can't be only one
Can a company assure its viability with the GPL?
Web browsers and typography
It seems to me the Gecko engine of Phoenix is performing better than Microsoft Internet Explorer 6....
A bit of french (and english) typography
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...
More Calogero
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...
A long time...
Calogero's latest album
First post
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...