Happy Thoughts
Important Concepts and a More Personal Approach to the Ipad
Well, given my new commitment to blogging and the just announced iPad from Apple, I guess it’s hard for me not to post something about it.
Problems are: where to begin and pretty much everything and more has already been said.
I was going for the Random thought about blablabla… until John Gruber posted his Various and [...]
How Dropbox Changed My Life
How DropBox Changed My Life
Yes. Again. I had a life changing experience.
OK, little clarification needed here.
By reading some of the latest posts titles, one might think I have a rather small life.
In fact, it’s the opposite. I just have many lives. Many many.
The main one evolves around my wife and my son.
Then there is [...]
Project52 – Bring It On
A few days before Christmas, on one of those very rare evening I decide I will spend browsing/reading/maybe-writing-a-little, I joined Project52 (yup, #262, that’s me!).
Project52 is dead simple : by entering your blog’s address, you make the pledge to write one post a week, for 52 weeks in a row (yes, that’s a whole year).
So, [...]
How Sonos Changed My Life
Those of you who know me also know that I’m fond of music.
Really fond. Can’t-live-without-it fond.
This pretty much means that I need music everywhere all the time.
Walkman, then DiscMan, then MiniDisc, then iPod solved the problem when far from home.
But Home has always been a problem.
I need to easily have access to any one of [...]
Flip! Flip! Flip!
I could make a t-shirt with that :
A few months ago, I was raving for the soon-to-be-released Sony and Sanyo tiny/HD/pricy camcorders…
and all I got was a Flip…
It’s low res, it has no function at all but it changed my D-life.
Better than the One Ring: you don’t need 8 phrases to describe it :
On button [...]
PHP to XML to inDesign. How my two hemispheres ran into each other.
Next month is the first bday of my son.
A year ago, for the occasion, I set up some kind of blog so our closest friends and family could share some thoughts before the delivery, and we always said we’d publish a book for his 1st bday, with the content of the site.
Comes in the timing [...]
Why I like Twitter (among other things)
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Culinairement Vôtre Goes Live
This one is more for Paris based readers.
A friend of mine launched his web site, and doing that, his company also : culinairement-votre.fr.
Being a cook, he offer his services to cook for you, or to teach you how to cook.
He’s not the first, nor the last, but he might be one of the best…
Regarding the [...]
MS Photosynth, very cool indeed !
Most of my 2 readers know that: I’m a Mac Fan Boy…
We could put it another way: I’m usually not impressed with what comes out of Microsoft.
But once in a while, let’s face it, they have some pretty cool stuff.
Surface is cool, for instance.
But this time it’s more than cool. This time, it’s mega-cool.
This time it’s [...]
Hello World
Writng my first post from WordPress iPhone app.
The internet has evolved once more.
I lost… Fair & Square
This is one of these moments…
A bitter taste and a hard time getting through.
I was just beaten, Fair & Square, on the finish line, building a small web app.
Here is how it started.
Like many I was first confused when I heard about Twitter, a few months ago.
Some kind of broadcasted one-way IM, 140 characters limited.
I didn’t [...]
New Wordpress Is Great
The previous post was the first since Wordpress 2.5 upgrade.
It’s really cool. The work on the admin part is huge.
I particularly love the shift-return to make a new <p />, the embedded tag management, and all the DHTML nifty effects.
Cool !
We Want PHP!
Google App Engine will be big.
Lots of people are talking about it. There was this thing about HuddleChat, the rip-off of 37’s CampFire…
But beyond all that, it doesn’t take much foresight to guess it’s gonna be big.
They said it at launch, it will be language independant, but for now it’s Python only.
Here is a petition to make it [...]
Dot Fruux
One of the creators defines it as social and sync.
You can sync your Mac Adress Book (OK, but what else ?), and it will be able to keep your contacts up to date, provided your contacts aslo use it.
More info on that feature here.
It’s still in Beta (beta like in not ready to ship, not like in google’s beta) so it lacks most of the features, but it surely is promising.
I’m curently beta testing. It does one thing for now : syncing. But it does it well and that’s all I’m asking – for now.
Simple ? Make it simpler.
I love my new microwave oven.
You just can’t make any simpler.
2 rotating knobs. That’s all !
One for power setting, the other for timing.
Nothing else, not even a start button.
And that’s the beauty. Once you set the timer, it goes off by itself, 1 second later.
The same goes for every thnig designed.
Be it a graphic design, [...]
I Lied
A long time ago (a few posts ago), full of energy and courage and faith, I wrote on this very blog that I would make it bi-lingual, writing in both French an English.
Well, guess what (without looking at the title)…
Yes: I Lied !
Reasons :
The reason I lied : At that time, I didn’t knew I [...]
The Best In The World
The other day, I used the term “The best in the world”, but it felt different.
When you think about it, we tend to over exaggerate our words, using superlatives and all : Greatest, Truly Gorgeous, the most Amazing….
How many times did you say “You gotta see this guys work, he’s the best in the world…” [...]
Showing Off
Last week, I went to see Prince show in Montreux, at the Jazz Festival.
A 2h30 show, followed by a 40 mn AfterParty (yes a little short, but soooo good).
Nothing special to say about that, just showing off.
I can’t wait to get my hands on the CDs.
(also, during the wait in the Stravinsky Auditorium, I [...]