20080528 Archive
Kroll sur le site de Telemoustique J'adore Kroll. Je viens d'acheter un de ses derniers albums: Au pays des oranges bleues - P. Kroll - Petits dessins Sur le site de telemoustique, on peut voir ses dessins qui sont publi?s dans le magazine. Google faced to the fishermen's problem Google faces a lot of attacks from publishers to pay money for their supposedly non-authorized reuse of information. There is a intellectual honesty that needs to be re-established around this "copyright" question. When a company publishes something, it's means to give (or sell) it to the public. Can the public reuse that information once they access it ? Yes : they can at least talk about it. Now : what's the difference if Google takes it and talks about it on the web by indexing it and making it searchable ? If this information is not meant to be reused for free than why is it published and exposed without any serious protection ? This makes me think about the fishermen's crisis in France. The fishermen's real problem is not the oil price : it's the fact that their real cost of fish is not reflected in their prices. They sell at loss. Similarly if publishers have to claim money to Google it's because they just dumped their content on the web instead of finding ways to get something out of it from the start. Claiming money to Google shows the weakness of those companies' business models which are outdated. Links :
Coup de Chapeau a Yannick Noah Alors l?, Coup de chapeau a Yannick Noah qui n'a m?me pas essay? d'?tre politiquement correct sur RTL alors qu'il ?tait interrog? sur l'arrestation de son fils... Br?ves d'Afrique - afrik.com : Yannick Noah n?en veut pas ? Joakim Bon, je ne dirais pas la m?me chose ? mon fils, mais au moins il n'a pas cach? ce qu'il pense. J'adore. Chapeau Bas. Oostende voor Anker  This weekend we went to Oostende for "Oostende voor Anker". You can have a look at some pictures here : 20080524TallShipsOstende.  IBM : 7 "Stop Talking, Start Doing" Commandments IBM has launched a campaign called "Stop Talking, Start Doing" recently and I really like the little movies associated with it. 1. The first one is really great : EMERGENCY I sometimes have the feeling I attend meetings like that... IBM TV Commercial on Business Resilience (When it Rains) 2. The second one is about Social networking... IBM TV Commercial on Collaboration/Social Networking (BFF) 3. The third one... is on FLEXIBILITY IBM TV Commercial on Business Flexibilty (Quicksand) 4. The 4th one : GREEN... IBM TV Commercials on Energy Efficiency/Green (Tree Huggers) 5. The 5th one: GLOBALIZATION... IBM TV Commercial on globalization (Tour) 6. The 6th : GENERATING IDEAS IBM: Ideating 7. The 7th : MANAGING INFORMATION IBM TV Commercial on Information Explosion (FYI) And there are some more on YouTube... Netlog is cool Today I test Netlog, after a colleague tells me his son has invited him to join. I already use/tested a lot of Social Networks. I created a new Netlog profile : http://en.netlog.com/jfdeclercq. Netlog is special to me because it has been created in Belgium (Gent). This make me want to use it. My first impression is really good. It could be a good alternative to Facebook if Microsoft buys it because they now support the Open Social standards. Mon Commentaire sur "Et si Microsoft devenait le num?ro 1 du Web ?" J'ai post? un commentaire sur cet article : Et si Microsoft devenait le num?ro 1 du Web ? Pour moi c'est pas ?vident que Microsoft va en en coup devenir quelqu'un sur le web en rachetant Yahoo et Facebook.... Un Reader OLPC XO 2.0 en 2010 Le laptop de mes r?ves...
FriendFeed I just created a friendfeed. Long live content aggregation ! Note that I already aggregate on my website. Plaxo also does it verywell...
Don't assume... Assumptions can be the cause of a lot of misunderstandings in everyday life (private and work): "With ASSUME we make an ASS of U and ME..." Think about it... Restaurants A list of restaurants I like. I just added La Serenata and Caf? de l'Op?ra.
Business Architecture Last week I had a course on Business Architecture and it was fascinating. As IT Architect, it's quiet easy to jump from IT Architecture to Business Architecture. The Service Oriented Entreprise (SOE) concepts are very close to the SOA concepts, except that instead of organizing systems and functions, it's about organizing businesses (services, products, people, processes and technology). The methodology proposed by Niels Klinkenberg results in Business Architectures which look like those of IBM's Component Business Modeling (CBM). During the course, I liked how the Growth Phases Model of Larry Greiner was used to explain that the agile business architectures of tomorrow are a network of highly entrepreneurial Business Units (called Domains) which are specialized, higly efficient (benchmarked), have to obey the corporate "Playing Rules" and have to add value to the company. This makes of Governance (Corporate, IT, HR, Financial...) a central success factor. How to govern a large company that needs to be agile ? To answer this question, you'd better first have a good idea of its Business Architecture... BicyCity Pride Concert @ Ancienne Belgique This Saturday we went to the Belgian Lesbian & Gay Pride and we had a lot of fun. We went to the Pride Party because we tought the music would be good and it was... excellent.  The DJs were great and there were two concerts : Milk Inc and Kate Ryan. These two top artists are linked to each others with the tunes of DJ Richie 4Fingers (Phenomena, Ap?ro - Leuven; Cockpit XS/XL - Cologne). Around 20:00, Milk Inc was super as last time we say them at the DruivenFeesten in Overijse. Unfortunately for them the Ancienne Belgique was not very crowded at that time. Not bad for us : we had a kind of private concert :-) Around 22:00, Kate Ryan was good (but not as good as Milk Inc). The tracks of her new album sounded good : promissing ? We will see. Visit of Nick Donofrio at IBM Belgium  Yesterday, Nick Donofrio gave a session on innovation at IBM Belgium. I really had the feeling to be in front of a legend. For 44 years he has been working on the most innovative IBM projects : the transition to CMOS, the System/360, the RS6000... He has surfed all the important IT waves with style. Mr Donofrio will retire in October this year and he mainly emphasized on what makes IBM a great company :
Being global is an important topic for IBM, according to Nick Donofrio. And indeed IBM has lauched many initiatives around globalization:
To start and to finish his speech Mr Donofrio encouraged the IBMers to anticipate change and to use change as an opportunity. Or even better : create the change. He explained how his father created change for his family. He wanted the best for Nick and created the change by setting hard work as a mean to reach a better education level. (Was it a success ? Apparently yes.) The only explanation for this move was : "If nothing changes, nothing changes". Be an actor of change. And for IBM one of the current changes is... globalization. About Nick Donofrio The postings on this site are my own and don?t necessarily represent IBM?s positions, strategies or opinions Pour Arnaud Nourry PDG de Hachette Livre : Il faudra au moins deux g?n?rations? | Cluster21 : la communaut? du digital, des m?dias ? la e-d?mocratie... J'ai comment? cet article sur le blog de Lorenzo Socclavo.
What famous leader are you ? I took the "which leader are you ?" test recommended in the Bizz Blog, I was very suprised to be a leader like ... Gandhi.  What Famous Leader Are You? personality tests by similarminds.com And you what famous leader are you like ? Photos de notre weekend en famille a La Reid - Ardennes Belges Photos de notre weekend en famille a La Reid - Ardennes Belges
Make a Yahoo Pipe and publish it using PHP I really enjoy playing with the web and all the social tools. There is something that is quiet well advanced called Yahoo! Pipes. With Yahoo!Pipes you can reuse contents on the web and republish it in another form without programming. Look at the following. The following Pipe allows me to collect 4 feeds (different places where you can comment my posts) and republish it as once. To do that you drag & drop : - 4 "Fetch Feed" Sources : you have to give the URL of the rss feed - the "Union" Operator it merges the 4 feeds into 1 - the "Sort" Operator which allows to sort the new feed - by date descending for instance.
There are much more drag&drops you can do. Check it out on Yahoo! Pipes by creating a new pipe. After that what you want to exploit your new feed, you can burn it or obtain it as a bagde... I personnaly use the PHP feature. The result can be streamed as a php array. Here is the code I use to exploit my Yahoo! Pipe (download it here): 1 <!-- get comments via Yahoo Pipes --> 2 3 <?php 4 5 // Pipes Request 6 $req = 'http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=YEJ5xyMG3RGadogljknRlg&_render=php'; 7 8 // Make the request 9 $phpserialized = file_get_contents($req); 10 11 // Parse the serialized response 12 $phparray = unserialize($phpserialized); 13 14 15 echo "<table width=120 border=1>"; 16 //Loop through all items of the feed 17 foreach ($phparray['value']['items'] as $item) { 18 //For all items : 19 20 //create a new table row 21 echo "<tr><td><div style="width:100%; overflow:hidden"><small>"; 22 echo "On "; 23 24 //print the day it was published 25 print_r($item['y:published']['day']); 26 echo "/"; 27 28 //print the month it was published 29 print_r($item['y:published']['month']); 30 echo "/"; 31 32 //print the year it was published 33 print_r($item['y:published']['year']); 34 echo ", "; 35 36 //print who wrote the item (it's a comment in my case 37 $name = $item['author']['name']; 38 echo "<b>"; 39 //some more checks because sometimes the author is in its own tag 40 if (strlen($name)==1) print_r($item['author']); 41 else print_r($item['author']['name']); 42 43 echo "</b>"; 44 45 echo " commented: "; 46 //write the description ofthe item within its link 47 echo "<a href="".$link."">".$item['title']."</a>"; 48 echo ":<br/>"; 49 50 51 echo "</small></div></td></tr>"; 52 //end of the row for this item 53 54 }//end of for each items 55 56 echo "</table>"; Citation - un peu de psychologie "Un psychotique, c'est quelqu'un qui croit dur comme fer que 2 et 2 font 5, et qui en est pleinement satisfait. Un n?vros?, c'est quelqu'un qui sait pertinemment que 2 et 2 font 4, et ?a le rend malade !" Pierre Desproges Help me complete my JoHari test I was today in a "Personal Improvement" course. During the course we learned about the JoHari window. It's a model that allows you to become more open by better stating your expectations towards someone else (openess) and by requesting feedback (self-knowledge). See here : http://kevan.org/johari A test is available, but for this test, you need to compare what you think of yourself with what I think of myself. If you want to help me do the test, just drop me an email and I'll give your the link to my own JoHari window. In return, I will do the test for you, if you wish. Lettre d'une vielle dame a sa banque Malgr? la mauvaise nouvelle de la semaine pass?e essayons de garder le sourire avec cette blague : Lettre d'une Vieille Dame a sa Banque. Very sad day Today my ex-brother in law Olivier Mailleux (38) passed away due the consequences of his cancer. As a real Engineer, he loved the power of 2. He died on 2008 04 08... It's a huge loss for all the people who loved him as he was... and I'm one of them. :'-( iNeZha.com(Anothr) : MSN/Skype/Gtalk RSS robot Today I tested iNeZha. It allows to receive RSS feed updates in your Instant Messaging Client. In my case it sends to Gtalk.
Pictures of the Pecha Kucha Brussels Vol3 Some pictures - taken with my phone - of the last pecha kucha in Brussels (March 20th 2008)
Well done Coca Cola ! Light Plus Antioxidant  Yesterday on Europe1 I was listening to Luc Luc Montagnier, Virologue, ancien professeur ? l'institut Pasteur, cod?couvreur du VIH. He was saying that the antioxidants are widely used as ingredients in dietary supplements in the hope of maintaining health and preventing diseases such as cancer and coronary heart disease.Today I was at our restaurant and what do I see : Coca Cola Light Plus Antioxidant ! I bought it to try. It seems Coca-Cola has very well understood what drives consumers to buy such a product... Wel done Coca Cola. Ne pas galvauder son talent Ne pas galvauder son talent Ce qui fait la valeur d'un ?tre n'est : ni son talent, ni ses dons naturels, ni ses capacit?s, ni sa beaut?... Sa valeur se juge ? ce qu'il fera de son potentiel; aptitudes ou handicaps. Il est si triste de vivre en dessous de ses possibilit?s ! Le talent galvaud? ... est de l'or jet? par les fen?tres. Source : Petite philosophie pour ceux qui veulent atteindre le sommet de la montagne ", ?dition num?ro 1, Catherine Rambert Netvibes Public Page Netvibes now also allows to build a network... As netvibes I than have a public page. I can flag what I like and re-publish it in "My Universe"
A nice bike Print Media Technology on ePaper Last friday (feb 29, 2008), we travelled to Switzerland to participate to an event around ePaper organized by a company called iWare and heig-vd (Haute Ecole d'Ing?nierie du Canton de Vaud). It was a good opportunity to make a nice mini-trip in Switzerland and have a good overview of the ePaper market. All the orators were quiet good. I also wanted to meet Mr Soccavo who is the author of the Nouvolivractu blog that I follow.  We could have a look at different eBook readers. Here : the Bookeen of Cybook. Casse-toi, pauvre con : Sarkozy, on l'aime ou on l'aime pas. Sarkozy, on l'aime ou on ne l'aime pas mais il ne laisse pas indiff?rent. Le Sarkozy que je n'aime pas. Quand il ?tait candidat je n'?tais pas en faveur de Sarkozy. Tout simplement car mon coeur est plus ? gauche. Face aux nouveaux d?fis ? globalisation, comp?titivit?, ?mergence du BRIC, d?clin des USA, d?fis ?nerg?tiques, il y a clairement deux approches. Jouer la comp?titivit? ? tout prix ou au contraire promouvoir d'autres valeurs. Je n'aime pas l'approche de Sarkozy : jouer la comp?titivit? La premi?re approche consiste ? surench?rir sur la comp?titivit?. Vendre plus que les autres, ?tre plus comp?titif, rafler les march?s, suivre la loi du plus fort. Ca n'est pas mon approche pr?f?r?e m?me si il ne faut pas ?tre naif par rapport ? la puissance des capitaux et de l'argent dans ce bas monde. Pour moi la comp?tition extr?me c'est la guerre et il n'est pas ?tonnant que le pays qui se veut le plus comp?titif (les US) sont en guerre aujourd'hui. L'alternative ? Sarkozy: l'approche Humaniste La deuxi?me approche, celle que je pr?ferre est plus humaniste que capitaliste. Elle met l'homme avant le capital, le social avant le lib?ral. Le Sarkozy que je n'aime pas c'est celui qui veut qu'on ? travaille plus pour gagner plus ?. Peut-?tre on gagne un peu plus, mais qui gagne ? le plus ? dans ce jeu : le management, les actionnaires, les employ?s ? Les traders ? Peut-?tre suis-je id?aliste mais je veux suivre ceux qui proposent autre chose que le capitalisme et ? la main invisible ? pour rendre les hommes heureux. ? Et si le luxe c'?tait l'espace ? ? : le temps libre, travailler moins, faire plus de sport, manger sainement, donner du travail et de la dignit? ? tout le monde, profiter d'une nature propre ? Et si ca coutait moins cher au final ? Combien co?te la guerre en Irak ? C'est donc dans le domaine politique que je n'aime pas Sarkozy. Mais bon, les Fran?ais ont choisi et maintenant il est l? ! Le Sarkozy que j'adore J'aime vraiment le personnage Sarkozy, celui qui a des probl?mes d'image aujourd'hui. J'adore : Sarkozy parle Cash Pour moi, l'?pisode r?cent du ? casse-toi, pauvre con ? est avant tout super rigolo. (voir ici http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4hl90_sarkozy-casse-toi-pauvre-con_politics).
Combien je le comprend ! Je suis si souvent oblig? dans mon travail de ravaler mes pens?es que si un jour je devient aussi bien plac? que Sarkozy, je ne vais pas me priver de dire leurs 4 v?rit?s ? ceux qui n'ont rien ? faire l? o? ils sont. Tout comme j'appr?cierai qu'on me dise clairement quand je d?passe les limites, d'ailleurs. La communication du Futur, ca n'est pas une communication qui contient des tabous. C'est une communication directe et franche qui montre clairement ce qu'on veut. C'est une base saine pour la n?gociation. Qu'on le veuille ou non, Sarkozy avec son style direct a su faire ?merger les vrai sujets qui posent probl?me en France: le pouvoir d'achat, l'esprit d'entreprise, la langue de bois... La commission Attali en est un superbe exemple : quel pav? dans la marre Administrative Fran?aise ! (Il nous faudrait la m?me commission en Belgique mais il y aurait alors 2100 propositions, 300 par gouvernement - F?d?ral, Wallon, Flamand, Bruxellois, Francophone, N??rlandophone, Germanophone)
J'adore : Sarkozy est sur le terrain Il pourrait se cacher dans son agenda mais non. Il va au contact. J'aime bien ca. Parfois ca frotte un peu et il d?rape. Peu importe. Il est la. Il est pr?sent. Il y a un pilote dans l'avion. J'adore : Sarkozy vit la vie qui lui plait Il ?pouse une top model italienne, il va en vacances en jet priv?, il se bourre la gueule avec Poutine... Il se fout du ? Qu'en dira t'on ?. Quelle libert? ! J'adore. Comment mieux dire ? merde ? ? ceux qui savent mieux comment il faut vivre sa vie ? J'adore : Sarkozy a un plan Malgr? les hauts et les bas m?diatiques, Sarkozy a un plan. Contrairement ? Chirac, qui dans le film ? Dans la peau de Jacques Chirac ? semble se demander qu'est-ce qu'il va faire ? part gagner les ?lections, Sarkozy poss?de un plan essentiellement ?conomique. Pour ce faire, il est maintenant le plus gros repr?sentant commercial de la France. Il vent des avions (airbus, rafalle), des centrales nucl?aires ou des trains ? grande vitesse. Comme tout excellent commercial il utilise un jet priv?, sors avec une top-model, fait des beaux voyages et a une Rolex. Il ne lui manque que la Ferrari comme dirait l'excellent Nicolas Canteloup sur Europe1. Le plan de Sarkozy c'est de vendre la France pour qu'elle soit plus riche. Encore une fois ca n'est pas le plan que j'aurais choisi mais j'aime quand les gens ont un plan. J'admire donc Sarkozy pour cela. Le Bilan : Wait and See Le jugement se fera donc dans 4 ans, ? la fin de son quinquennat. Je pense que Sarkozy aura un bon bilan. Il aura r?ussi ? fouetter la France et ? la rendre un peu plus comp?titive. Si il n'y a pas de mauvaise nouvelle majeure entre-temps (nouvelle guerre, actions terroristes, crack boursier, famine), il en sortira grandi.
Chimay : the social beer Belgium is a beer country. One of my favorite beers is the Chimay.
I was really delighted when I read the "Authentic trapist product" text at the back of the bottle of Chimay Bleu: An Authentic Trappist product follows the following criteria:
Links : IBM Solutions Builder The IBM Solution builder is a powerful tool to help you design IT Solutions which makes use of IBM Software.
IBM Solutions Builder Express Session at Logix I gave this session on SBE/SCE at Logix today.
Twitter / Gtalk integration I have tested today the GTalk/Twitter integration. By sending an instant message to Twitter you can twitt and receive your friends twitts. It's really great : Twitter becomes a kind of broadcasting chat engine. It's a common trend that I have seen at IBM also. You can add a service - called a Bot- as one of your buddiesand ask him questions. It's the computer on the other side who talks to you. For example, at IBM we have a number of Instant Messaging bots available on Sametime to employees, including:
There is a technical article over here : Building your own Sametime bots. If you know some good bots for GTalk, MSN or Yahoo, please let me know. Marrakech Marrakech, malgr? la pollution, est une ville o? il fait bon vivre. Nous avons profit? de ses belles couleurs amplifi?es par le soleil : le jaune des b?timents, le vert des palmiers (c'est une oasis), les couleurs des souks, le jaune du jus d'orange, le bleu du ciel, le blanc de la neige au sommet des montagens de l'atlas...  Marrakesh c'est aussi un spectacle permanent. Notre attention est sollicit?e par le grouillement de mobylettes, de vendeurs dans les souks, d' ouvriers sur les chantiers , de cireurs de chaussures, de personnes qui demandent ce que nous cherchons dans l'espoir d'obtenir un bakchich sur une vente improbable, de taxis et de cal?ches qui veulent nous ballader, de vendeurs de cigarettes ou de cacahou?tes, de policiers qui surveillent chaque carrefour, des petites charrettes tir?es par des ?nes au milieu des bus et de gros 4x4... Pictures of our trip to Marrakesh We went to Marrakesh two weeks ago. You can have a look at the pictures over here : Photos Marrakesh on PicasaWeb  IBM Lotus Symphony Symphony is IBM's alternative to Microsoft Office. Lotus Symphony ha been crowned Office Productivity Software Product of the Year by Datamation Magazine for 2008.
Architectural Thinkings I just completed a IBM course on Architectural Thinking. Here are the best quotes : "Every Solution to a problem introduces new problems" "At IBM, Architects must have a T-Shape" "IT Architecture is a set of decisions that you take which will cost you a lot of money if you change them afterwards" (Robin Mulkers) (In architecture,) "Good is good enough" CoComment test going on Still playing with technology. I tested today the integration of CoComment with my website. If you use CoComment, let me know here so maybe I integrate it everywhere in the future.
Le destin de Hai The Programmer Dress Code "I really want to know what it is about programming, or computers in general, that makes people want to grow a beard, have long hair, and dress like a slob."
Europalia - Expositions  Last weekend was cultural as we visited two Europalia expositions this sunday. We first went to the Mus?e d'Ixelles for an exposition called 'All ways lead to Rome" ("Tous les chemins m?nent ? Rome - Voyages d'artistes du XVIe au XIXe si?cles") We than went to the BOZAR for a second Europalia exposition called "Encompassing the Globe - Portugal and the World in the 16th and the 17th Centuries" which shows how the Portuguese have travelled the world : Africa, Asia, America. Visiting museums like this is also another way to enjoy Brussels. Les diff?rents sentiments : pourquoi ? Je vois dans mes statistiques web (feedburner) que beaucoup de personnes cherchent et trouvent l'histoire "Les diff?rents sentiments" sur mon site. Vous qui cherchiez et avez trouv?, dites-moi : pourquoi cherchez vous "diff?rents sentiments" dans Google ? |
