Happy Thoughts

Hello World

Writng my first post from WordPress iPhone app.
The internet has evolved once more.


I lost… Fare & Square

This is one of these moments…
A bitter taste and a hard time getting through.
I was just beaten, Fare & 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 [...]