Saturday, June 30, 2012

A bit of trip hop to put in your headphones

Yesterday evening I was watching again Paris from C.Klapish and I realized that the soundtrack was really good (at first sight a few years ago, I was probably too focused on the story and the characters, to pay attention to the soundtrack; it was clearly different this time).

So I listened to good trip hop :

and
  
Hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Puzzle of the day

The father has syphilis, the mother suffers from progressive tuberculosis.
They currently have four children, first being blind, second is dead, third is deaf mute and fourth has tuberculosis.
The mother is pregnant for a fifth time, do you suggest abortion ?

(answer lower in the page)


















If you answer YES, you just killed Beethoven...


So abortion is Evil ? Not so sure, it can bring social benefits, as demonstrated by Freakonomics.


Friday, June 15, 2012

Fun of the day

In love, there's no problem that cannot find its solution...
Shot in Trnava, april 2006


Thursday, June 14, 2012

Misc of the day

  • An instructive analysis of market share evolution during the last 30 years of personal computing, showing out of numbers the amazing increase of Apple, and a technologic mutation at the expense of PC : the-rise-and-fall-of-personal-computing
  • An astonishing 3D panorama technology : airpano
  • Even better, 360° live immersive video
  • If you're a nerd, you may enjoy this set of citations (more or less) famous. You can even use it during a keynote to make a break or hook a sleepy audience...

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Fun of the day

Two web sites I occasionaly get a glance to make a break...

La Boite Verte, where I always find amazing, surprising, astounding, strange, funny, (put your prefered adjective here) articles. Some examples :
L’humour photographique de LIFE Magazine
du WTF à l’ancienne
du WTF à l’ancienne #2

La construction du Golden Gate Bridge


L’art du rangement d’Ursus Wehrli
D’étranges monuments en Yougoslavie
L’architecture soviétique de Frédéric Chaubin
 OakOak, du street art insolite français

I also laugh a lot on  There I fixed it, where you'll find the weirdest fix (often with tons of duct tape).

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

A short tour in Paris

Paris by night...
 


Definitely not fun to be a statue...

 

Monday, June 4, 2012

Flows that feed my mind

To be informed of what happens in the IT world and especially the Java EE area I work in, I use Netvibes to browse quickly many sources, including :
To take a break from time to time I also get a glance to :
When I'm stuck with a tricky technical problem, stackoverflow.com often helps me to find a solution.

And there's a life apart computers, for example with :

Sunday, June 3, 2012

Some soft music in this rough world

Well you'll tell me it's not tops of the day and you'll be right.

Let's start softly with a band I follow since their album Pedrolira, you name it, it's HOLDEN.
A song from their album Fantomatisme :

For those who didn't know about Carmen Maria Vega, like me until a couple of weeks, a song which should give you the desire to hear more from her :

A punchy guitar riff from japanese band named 9mm Parabellum Bullet ("Supernova" guitar & bass cover), catched on youtube after I heard it on the radio :

Last for today, a video published in 2006 from a young guitar prodigy playing a very very rock'n'roll version of Mozart's Rondo a la turca :

Friday, June 1, 2012

First post

After several years of resistance against blogging (I've nothing interesting to tell / it's a fashion, it will pass away...) I finally started one, considering it may be a good way to keep track of thoughts, tries, interesting things in a unique and reachable from anywhere location.

Inspired by prestigious bloggers as Maitre Eolas, Zythom, the dailyWTF, the Standblog and many more, here I am with this first pathetic post.

I don't really know what I will blog about; probably notes about :
  • things I've seen or heard somewhere (in the street, on the radio, while surfing on the internet...) and that surprised / interested / irritated me...
  • technology I work with on my daily JEE IT project manager job
  • photographs, as this one :

A Blue sheep group in front of the BONN city hall (18 May 2012)