January 2008En cette période de soldes, il est navrant d'observer les gens dans les commerces. Combien de personnes me dépassent, me bousculent, me marchent sur les pieds, ou bloquent le passage pour arriver en premier je ne sais où, voir un vêtement qu'ils vont jetter par terre sans l'acheter. Dans le métro de Bruxelles, ceux qui montent n'attendent même plus que ceux qui descendent soient sortis. Même dans les avenues les plus luxueuses de Bruxelles, l'impolitesse et le "moi d'abord" priment, à l'image des grosses BMW qui dépassent toute la file et, au bout de celle-ci, forcent le passage pour passer en premier... En réalité, ca n'est pas vraiment de leur faute, ils vivent simplement comme ca. On ne leur a jamais dit. Ils ne remarquent même pas qu'ils poussent les autres pour passer. Cela me donne envie de retourner à la campagne faire du VTT dans les champs et la boue mais là aussi un exité de la compétition va peut-être me crier dessus pour passer "A DROITE" ou "A GAUCHE". Mais que dois-je dire à mon fils ? De se laisser pousser ou de pousser aussi, comme les autres ? Que dois-je faire le matin ? Dépasser la file de l'E411 par la gauche avant de faire une queue de poisson juste avant le ring pour passer avant tous ceux qui ont attendu normalement ? "Et si le luxe c'était l'Espace ?" demande le constructeur automobile Renault. L'éducation et la politesse sont-ils aussi un luxe auquel peu de personnes ont accès ? Le self coaching pemet de se mettre dans un état cérébral plus productif.
During JavaPolis we had a very good presentation by Bruce Eckel called 'Unconference'. "An unconference is a conference where the content of the sessions is created and managed by the participants, generally day-by-day during the course of the event, rather than by one or more organizers in advance of the event" (WikiPedia). The agenda of discussions is negotiated between the participants and those discussions than happen in open spaces. I like it because I have more and more difficulties to follow a long session without interacting. Also often when you go to an event, the good part is not the presentations but rather the contacts that you could make. Very often what I retain from a presentation is the name of the speaker so I can ask him questions later. In an unconference, you must think "conversation" and you must be interested in this conversation otherwise you drag the energy of the meeting down. My feeling about unconferences is that you should carefully choose the conversation topics otherwise you'll might have some problems. I especially think about the problem of having conflicts of interests among participants (competitors for instance). So I guess it would be more interesting for a loose network rather that for one-to-many communications. But I'm looking forward to participate to or organize an unconference ! See an example of unconference here : http://mindview.net/Conferences/ProgrammingTheNewWeb As it is a tradition now, I send you my best shots of 2007 in order to wish you the best for 2008. This year I could not make a good selection : I have 77 pictures for you. Click here to start the slideshow : http://picasaweb.google.com/jfdeclercq/BestShots2007/photo#s5150550810699008482 You can find the album here : http://picasaweb.google.com/jfdeclercq/BestShots2007 HAPPY 2008 PS : you can still have a look at my other years best shots here : December 2007Aujourd'hui je lis mon email, j'ai un nouveau commentaire sur mon site. Chouette ! He ben non. C'est une insulte et ca me fait de la peine... (voir plus loin) Peut-être que avec mon site web je ressemble à une Castafiore mais c'est un hobby, cela m'amuse et je n'oblige personne à le lire... Joyeux Noel et Bonne année quand même à celui qui m'a envoyé ce commentaire: A new comment on the post #6 "General Comments" is waiting for your approval http://jfdeclercq.wordpress Author : Mickey (IP: 213.49.228.90 , ip-213-49-228-90.dsl.scarlet E-mail : Mickey.mouse@disney.com URL : Whois : http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin Comment: Quel connard ce type. IBM emploie vraiment des Castafiore
"Il n'y a pas de vent favorable pour celui qui ne sait ou il va" - heard on Europe1 a long time ago but I still think about it (There is no favorable wind for the one who doesn't know where he goes) "Si c'est défendu, c'est que c'est possible" - IBM Sales Motto (If it's forbidden, it's possible) "May the best of your past be the worst of your future" - Peter Raferty (Vlerick Mgt School) to Roland Van Dierdonck departing Dean of the school Yesterday I attended the Vlerick Winter Reunion and we had an excellent presentation by Bertrand Piccard. Bertrand Piccard is one of the two pilots of the first ever non-stop balloon flight around the world. It's difficult to summarize all the concepts that were explained yesterday. Here are the topics I have written down. In fact I agree with most of the ideas of Bertrand Piccard and I believe I have already applied them more than once. Don't fight against the winds, just choose the most favorable one Bertrand Piccard explained that during this air balloon experience, he learned that trying to control everything (an air balloon, your life, your career...) does not automatically lead to success. You also need to stop and feel the possible winds, change your plans and follow the most favorable winds. Pro-act To be able to adapt to most favorable winds, there is a necessary mind shift which doesn't match our education. We have been trained to eliminate the unknown in order to come back in speed, control and power and work as a bulldozer to reach our goal. We have been trained to react and not to pro-act. Communication Decision taking when facing the unknown is a difficult task. If you take decisions alone, you face the risk of having too little objectivity. In the balloon decision taking was than the result of a discussion between the two pilots. The problem is that two people sharing ideas are not productive : or they have the same ideas and 1+1=1 or they disagree and 1+1=0. The trick is to avoid expressing ideas but rather sharing experiences. Those experiences being the necessary information for a common decision taking. It's a positive common bottom-up argumentation rather that a destructive top-down opposition of ideas. In summary "I wish I have the strength to change what I can change, that I have the courage to accept what I can't change, and that I have the wisdom to be able to make the difference between what I can change and what I can't change" Also have a look at Bertrand Piccard's website here : http://www.bertrandpiccard.com/eng/index.php A nice project to have a look at. Vlerick supports the project = gave money during the 2007 Winter Reunion yesterday.
Last week, I received two books :
Ce dimanche 16 décembre 2007 avait lieu le cyclo-cross de Overijse. J'y étais. Tous les meilleurs coureurs y étaient aussi. Ici, Sven Nys en action.  Mais le cyclo-cross c'est surtout une ambiance. La foule dans les champs qui crie pour encourager les coureurs. Dans la descente - tres glissante car il gelait !  ... et dans la montée  Klaas Vantornout a mis le turbo et voici le groupe de poursuivants qui traverse la pleine de jeux.  Finalement Klaas Vantornout n'est jamais repris et gagne la course.  You can now better control what you see on my home page. Look at the right under my picture.
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Those who think I'm just playing around with JavaScript are right. In fact I'm very close to use Ajax but I have a lack of time. Dossier complet sur le eBook
 Yesterday I heard someone on TV saying : "A lot of problems in our society come from the absence of projects". It's true. Nothing is more depressing than not having projects. When you don't have a perspective you don't think about your future, you only think about the past and how it was the good times. Instead, you should always look forward and catch the opportunities that the future brings. Working on projects allow you to have recognition from your peers and/or auto-satisfaction. This statement nevertheless is maybe a bit too simple :
So if the statement is true.: as human beings, we need projects. The next questions are than:
It's up to us all to select the projects which add value, respect the people and the nature. Many projects don't help us and nevertheless we contribute to them... Let's try to step out of these. Pour ceux qui ont compris, aucune explication n’est nécessaire. Pour ceux qui n’ont pas compris, aucune explication n’est possible.
Entendu hier soir sur France4 dans "Oui mais..." avec Gérard Jugnot et Emilie Dequenne. "C'est pas parcequ'il fait nuit qu'il n'y aura plus jamais de soleil" En fait ce film raconte comment on peut rééquilibrer sa relation à l'autre, aimer quelqu'un sans jouer dans ses petits jeux de chantages affectifs et autre gentillesses inconscientes. Yesterday I attended some sessions at Javapolis 2007. The session Introduction to JRuby really gave me a good feeling.
L'homme a fait le tour de la terre, il a exploré, escaladé, plongé et creusé, à la recherche de quelque chose...
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Ca m'a bien fait rire...
It's a long time I ask myself the question : Is there a Web2.0 Bubble ?
 Je lis sur le site BrusselsLife.be une explication sur les bootlegs. "Aujourd'hui des centaines de bootlegs sortent chaque semaine sur internet (ils sont parfois appellés Mashup: synonyme de notre stoemp national, mais le mot Bootleg est de plus en plus généralisé)" Mais oui, mais alors... en IT... les "Business Mashups 2.0" ce sont des stoemps d'affaire !! Mais bien sûr ! Mes collèques de IBM Lotus donc sont des vendeurs de stoemp :-D Question subsidiaire : A quand les SOA Bootlegs ? Ca seraient des processus d'entreprise superposés ou quelquechose dans le style...  Yesterday I finished reading the last Harry Potter. This last book was really great ! It was really in line with the other books. It's a masterpiece ! Older : In my mind today: New blog
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