That’s right! Not everything that reaches your inbox is actually for you and, therefore, it doesn’t deserve your full, and especially not your immediate, attention.
So, what is all this mail doing in your inbox in the first place? There are different types of e-mails:
there’s the e-mail that someone sent you expecting action and/or a reply from you; there’s the e-mail that you receive because someone wants to keep you in the loop either by sending you the e-mail directly (i.
I made this as a “gift” for a colleague. I actually like it, so I’m keeping it as my desktop background for a couple of days and I share it with the world.
(Click on the image for a larger version. Other formats available on request.)
A while ago I bought a typewriter (the one in the picture) with the intention of one day being able to connect it to the computer using a USB cable. Sure, a typewriter will make for a noisy keyboard, but who cares? :P
I’m obviously not the first one to do it, but again, who cares?
So, the first step was buying the typewriter. Thanks to eBay that’s done. And, if you look carefully, you’ll notice that the keyboard’s layout is almost like my Swiss French layout that I like so much.
A few weeks ago I posted the pictures of the Imagine Cup conference that took place in Paris and during which I had the opportunity to interview Bill Gates.
An event like that was of course filmed and now the videos are also available for online viewing and for download from the web site of Microsoft France.
There are six videos:
French (well, French and Costa Rican :P) finalists from 2007 (French) Bernard Charlès, CEO Dassault Systèmes (French) Ora Ito, Designer (French) Andrew Herbert, Microsoft Research Cambridge (English) Bill Gates, Microsoft Chairman (English) Q&A with Bill Gates (you can see me here again) (English) Click on “Voir …” to view the video online or “Télécharger” to download.
I regularly check my blog’s stats, more for fun and curiosity than for anything else. I like to check who my knowledge (in a very broad sense of the word) might be going to.
This is a map of recent geographic distribution of my visitors that was very pleasant to see by the way:
Obviously, many of the countries that are green only provided one or two visitors, but still, it’s nice to see…
Well, I didn’t think an escalator needed one, but the numbers seem to say different:
For those who can’t read the poor quality text, it says “Last year: 1,024 injuries”.
The number drew my attention for two reasons:
What are the probabilities of the number of injuries on escalators being a power of 2? How can there be almost 3 injuries per day on something as trivial as an escalator? (that’s an interrobang, in case you’re wondering) Sure, the escalators on the London tube can be impressive:
As usual these days, there were all sorts of cameras present at yesterday’s activity. This is great because I of course couldn’t take my own pictures. Here’s a selection of pictures that I have received:
Yep, that’s me, to his left first and then to his right.
And here are links I’ve received/found with pictures of the event. I’ll be editing these as I find/get new ones:
G-IT Photos by Séverin Ferrand Photos by Stéphane Rangaya Photos by Emmanuel de Taillac Photos by Maxime Gaillard Photos by Stéphane Rangaya Photos by Johanna Piou
OK, maybe the title doesn’t mean much, but I couldn’t think of anything better. So how about you just watch the videos?
I was barely finished with last week’s TED post when I stumbled upon the first of this week’s recommendations. I know I said that TED videos were only 18 minutes long, but I guess when you’re Jane Goodall you’re inherently expected to need a little more:
As inspiring as Mrs.
For a long time I’ve followed the same routing on Christmas day:
Wake up, unwrap presents, have breakfast, watch a movie, visit relatives.
Of course, over time, things have changed slightly. Most notably, the time I wake up, that fact most presents are actually opened the night before, breakfast became brunch and most of my relatives now live a 14-hour flight away.
Movie time didn’t change, though, and today’s was The Devil Wears Prada.
Finally! With today’s update, the Xbox 360 is now able to read DivX and XviD files (which you naturally acquired legally).
As soon as I heard about this, I of course turned on the beast and downloaded the necessary files (you need the new Xbox software and the codecs, which are downloaded separately).
It all works almost perfectly on my setup, which is a TVersity server streaming to the Dashboard on a PIII 500 MHz, 128 MB RAM.
