January 2009Everyday, I read the web just like I would read the newspaper. I aggregate news feeds in Netvibes. Now what if you would prefer to read the news off-line or to print it ? You can use some services which transform the news feeds into a PDF file.I have tested two of them : Tabbloid and FeedJournal, on my own feed. On the right you have Tabbloid, on the left FeedJournal.   For a deeper look, you can download the PDF files here :
Small problem : the services are not very reliable. You don't always get your email... What we see today is a lot of Relaunch Plans. Everybody thinks : "We need a relaunch plan for the economy". But I think : "Why do we want to relaunch something that is going straight into the wall ?" "Isn't it a good time to change direction ?" So, let's relaunch the competitive machine until we crash in the same wall again. Or should I say until we blow the next bubble. In 2009, IBM's innovation will focus on a Smarter Planet. The world needs to be smarter. There are challenges : food, energy, carbon footprints, climate, economy... Some solutions will come from innovation and IT :
See here IBM : A Smarter Planet . The postings on this site are my own and don't necessarily represent IBM's positions, strategies or opinions One day I decided to quit... But God said : 'Look around : Do you see the fern and the bamboo?' Read the story. Il y a toujours dans la vie des convergences qu'on ne s'explique pas. Par exemple on recoit plusieurs offres d'emploi dans la même semaine. Cette fois ci, j'ai crée un miniblogue hier soir. Sur mon blogue, hier midi, sans relation de cause à effet que je puisse m'expliquer SouCaline a posté un commentaire sur un de mes blogs. Son URL est celui de ... miniblogue. Son commentaire est don antérieur à mon inscription à miniblogue. Moi j'ai découvert miniblogue via Wikipedia... He is playing violin in the street. Nobody is listening to him. Who is he ? Read a nice story here : The street musician. ----------------------------------- Il joue du violon dans la rue. Personne ne l'écoute. Qui est-il ? Voyez ici : Le musicien de Rue Ce que j'aime dans le miniblogue c'est qu'il faut même pas chercher un titre. On dumpe directement ce qu'on pense et c'est un peu plus long qu'un Twit. Voila encore un espace pour jouer...Un Miniblogue This week, I followed a Twitt Post that made me dicover Issuu. I'm impressed. It's the Web2.0 version of a FSI like application (cfr Playmobil on the Web with FSI). Eventually some Landscape Layout that fit my screen. This really allows to read magazines on a PC. If you want an example, have a look here : http://issuu.com/truflava06/docs/feb_2009_issue I'll try miniblogue just for the fun (http://jfdeclercq.miniblogue.fr/) It will appearFor the moment the content will only appear on Netvibes (http://www.netvibes.com/jfdeclercq#My_Content) I'm thinking about a review of the way I create content because with Blogger, Twitter, Delicious it becomes a mess... In twitter I have followers who follow thousands of people. See for example http://twitter.com/chrisblake. I wonder how it's possible to do that. Why do they do that ? Maybe you have already seen my picture on SOA and the Value Chain.  Here is an excellent IBM article that explains it all... http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/444/cherbakov.html Je suis en train de ré-écouter une émission de Europe1 intitulée: "Internet et la culture : le meilleur ou le pire" On y parle de Blogs mais également de ePaper et de eBooks. Don't tell my manager Dieter that today I stopped working for an hour to go sledding... Have a look here (better with sound): J'ai posté le commentaire suivant sur le site de François Colette, à propos de Facebook. cfr http://francoisquinqua.blog.lemonde.fr/2008/12/27/farce-book/ "Moi j?aime bien les réseaux sociaux. Facebook est celui que j?aime le moins. Je n?aime pas devoir ?installer des applications?, c?est pour moi contraire aux principes même du web. Ce qui me fait peur avec Facebook c?est l?utilisation qui pourrait en être faite : si on pense à comment les juifs ont été pourchassés avec des registres papier pendant la seconde guerre mondiale, on se rend compte il serait aujourd?hui tres facile de cibler un groupe particulier via un système comme facebook. Et je ne parle pas encore d?une éventuelle application de dénonciation (anonyme) qui serait installée sur Facebook. En cas de troisième guerre mondiale, la première cible à détruire serait peut-être facebook." As usual, to send you my Best Wishes for the coming year, I send you my best shots of the year before. Here are my best shots of 2008.
HAPPY 2009 !!! December 2008Today we went to Aqualibi so we could walk in swimsuit all day even if it's freezing outside !
Recently I had a problem on my home computers. We couldn't connect to www.google.com anymore. A ping didn't work, a nslookup didn't work, a tracert didn't work. All other sites were ok. I searched the Internet (using google.be ;-)) and many people had the same problem. It seems to be a strange DNS problem. For those people, here is a temporary solution. Edit your Windows Hosts file (in c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc) and add this line at the end: 216.239.59.147 www.google.com This way you tell your computer directly where to find Google.com. Note this solution will no longer work if Google.com changes its IP Address. After that I could again read my gmail, my Google Calendar, my Google Notebook and Blogger. Strange problem... I would like to know the real issue behind it. Today we did some mountain bike in Kasterlee/Herentals on the Montain Bike Routes of the Bloso. I could not blog for several days because I couldn't connect to www.google.com due to very stange dns problems. Whatever, I would like to wish you the best for this end of the year. I hope your holydays are filled with happiness and good cheer ! Very soon I will send you my Best Wishes with my Best Shots 2008. I have seen that guy (Roxorloops) at Devoxx. What he does is amazing ! Last week (Dec 8-12 2008), there was Devoxx (formely known as JavaPolis) in the Metropolis in Antwerp. The fair usually welcomes 2000 developers for technical conferences on Java, PHP, JavaFX, Scala, Ruby on Rails... IBM invests on this event and this year Robin Mulkers proposed to demonstrate IBM's technology leadership with a real use case of one of the hottest technologies: RFID. The project was exlained in the keynote (see some photos here below) Furthermore, it's a usefull use case for the Devoxx Organization : All participants receivedan RFID badge. Those badges were tracked so that one could for example see which sessions were the most popular. Or participants could leave their name at the booths by letting the hostess scan their badge to participate to games or request for more information. At IBM, we call this innovation that matters ! PS : Devoxx is one of the best events that I know. The organization is really great. You have free WiFi, you can take drinks directly from the fridge, speackers are accessible, topics are cool... Everything is in place to have a great Developer experience ! Dimanche 7 décembre, nous étions invités par IBM au Cirque Bouglione pour la Saint-Nicolas. N'hésitez plus, allez-y. Je vous le recommande : Le spectacle est vraiment bon. In the past I had already designed goal trees using UML. Today I have developed several diagrams for one of my customers : goal trees, project lists, opportunities, initiatives, execution strategies.... I have put it all in one huge diagram, that I have called a mind map. So I have effectively been developing a mind map using a UML Modeling tool. I can't show you because it's confidential but I find it quiet interesting and I will do it more and more. You can try it at home... Older : Testing Ubuntu
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