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…

Regularmente reviso las estadísticas de mi blog, sobre todo por diversión y por curiosidad. Me gusta saber a quién le llegan mis conocimientos (en un sentido amplio de la palabra). Este es un mapa reciente de la distribución geográfica de mis visitas que me parece muy interesante de hecho: Obviamente, muchos de los países en verde sólo contribuyeron con una o dos visitas, pero igual, me gusta el mapa… Como ya lo dije en el título: gracias por venir, espero que disfruten y que vuelvan pronto ;)

Je regarde les statistiques de mon blog régulièrement, plus pour le fun et la curiosité que pour autre chose. J’aime bien voir à profite de mes connaissances (au sens très large du terme). Voilà une carte récente de la distribution géographique de mes visiteurs que je trouve très sympa d’ailleurs : Evidemment, la plupart des pays qui sont en vert n’ont contribué qu’un ou deux visiteurs, mais c’est quand même sympa à voir…

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:

Je ne pensais pas qu’un escalator en aurait besoin, mais les chiffres semblent indiquer le contraire : Pour ceux qui n’arrivent pas à lire le texte, c’est marqué “Last year: 1,024 injuries”, c’est-à-dire “L’an dernier : 1024 blessés”. Le chiffre a attiré mon attention pour deux raisons : Quelles sont les probabilités que le nombre de blessés dans un escalator soit une puissance de 2 ? Comment peut-il y avoir presque 3 blessés par jour dans quelque chose d’aussi trivial qu’un escalator ?

Pues, nunca pensé que una escalera eléctrica necesitara uno, pero las cifras indican lo contrario: Para los que no logran leer el texto, dice “Last year: 1,024 injuries”, o sea “El año pasado: 1024 heridos”. El número me llamó la atención por dos razones: ¿Cuáles son las probabilidades de que el número de heridos en escaleras eléctricas sea una potencia de 2? ¿Cómo puede haber casi 3 heridos por día en algo tan trivial como una escalera eléctrica?

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.