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  • LeWeb 08, deux photos

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteLoic Lemeur giving an interview to a journalist with a nice big seesmic logo behind him. There’s also the social side. Hermione of Techfluff.tv and Alicia L’americaine . There’s a video I should upload of Hermione dancing with three mariachi but I’ll do that once I get access to more bandwidth.

  • SMS no longer exist for me

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI saw a tweet saying that Americans now send twice as many text messages as Europeans and this makes me think of just one thing. It’s obsolete. What I mean by that is that now that I have a data plan and skype and gtalk on my phone I refuse to…

  • The fifty years of the City Club cinema in Pully.

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteTonight I went to the cinema and saw two films at a cinema that has turned half a century old. The most interesting of those event is a 1930s film with a live performance by a jazz band touring switzerland with that film. I also saw an Avant premiere for a…

  • Youtube live is a dissapointment, and it hasn’t even started.

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesIn an age where mobile video streaming is cheap in comparison to the past it’s a shame that youtube do not showcase this technology and have three hundred people streaming from one city for example. Why is it that they chose to cover live music events instead. Of course music is cheap…

  • Today it snowed

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteToday it snowed.

  • Fribourg Nanowrimo

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI always go to social media events and meet a lot of geeks who love to use new technology such as twitter, seesmic and more. For once it’s a little different. I’m in Fribourg where I’m surrounded by writers. There are a lot of PC rather than Mac computers. The hot…

  • 97 friends changed pictures

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThat’s a lot of people to change look in one day.

  • Nanowrimo progression after nine days at it

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’m not doing too badly. I’m 1000 words ahead of the minimum per day if you take the 1667 word per day rule seriously. Might work up to 20,000 tonight. I’m just 4000 away…

  • Nanowrimo

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis month I’m trying something different. It’s Nanowrimo. It’s a strange word for the unitiated but it’s short for National novel writing month. It’s the time of the year when people around the world set themselves the goal of writing 50,000 words without proofreading. The idea is to produce as much…

  • Freemind – Mindmapping

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt’s easy to get ideas but it’s harder to organise them and that’s where mind mapping software like Freemind comes in. It’s an easy to use open source solution that allows to create and share mind maps. I originally came across it when experimenting with it’s ipod touch and iphone counterpart,…