Face the sun, not the shadows
Submitted by augustin on Sun, 2010-07-04 14:35I was searching the web for Keller's famous quote:
"When you face the sun, the shadows always fall behind you."
and found this nice editorial which is worth reprinting in its entirety:
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Searching 9/11: a new web site
Submitted by augustin on Mon, 2010-06-07 19:41Here is my newest web site:
http://searching911.info/
It operates like a controlled wiki to collectively gather the best evidence behind each theory.
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Re: Chinglish
Submitted by augustin on Thu, 2010-05-06 11:14From a friend:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/03/world/asia/03chinglish.html?src=me&ref...
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/05/03/world/asia/20100503_CHINGLIS...A couple favorites from my own experience:
A Chinese pastry restaurant in Boston's Chinatown offers a "Pu Pu
Platter" in its menu. (I'm guessing "pu pu" means "common", so it
might be an assortment of common pastries.)I once stayed in a truly tiny hotel room in Tokyo, and read the list
of things that were prohibited in the room. One of them was "Objects
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Katyn - 2010
Submitted by augustin on Thu, 2010-04-22 00:11Je pleure aujourd'hui.
Un élève est arrivé avec une édition récente du journal Taipei Times pour qu'il puisse l'étudier avec moi en classe. Comme je ne suis généralement pas l'actualité, j'en profite généralement pour feuilleter le journal et voir les sujets d'actualité.
Alors que je tournais les pages, un nom familier a attiré mon attention: un article parlait de Katyn. Je connaissais déjà l'histoire du massacre de l'élite polonaise dans cette foret par l'armée Russe. Une phrase au début de l'article m'a profondément interpelé:
People cannot be beheaded twice. But a nation can. Twice in less than a century, Poland’s elite — political, military, ministerial — came to a terrible death in the woods around Smolensk. Ordinary Poles with history in their bones can’t be blamed for fearing, on that fateful weekend, that the beheading ax was swung by the same hands.
Quoi? C'est ainsi que j'ai appris le terrible accident qui a décapité pour une seconde fois l'élite polonaise au meme endroit.
Ce soir, je prend le temps de m'informer sur cette tragédie qui a eu lieu il y a déjà près de deux semaines... Et je pleure. J'ai un attachement tout particulier pour la Pologne, et je me joins au deuil de mes amis Polonais.
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Opening of the site Meta Linux
Submitted by augustin on Tue, 2010-04-13 15:49I just completed the preliminary configuration for the new site Meta Linux at http://linux.overshoot.tv/
Thus, I shall no longer blog on technical / Linux related issues here but I will use the new site for that.
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Ouverture du site 3 enjeux
Submitted by augustin on Sun, 2010-04-04 22:21Le site 3enjeux.overshoot.tv vient tout juste d'ouvrir. Je viens de finir une installation très basique, avec wiki, blog, etc.
Il me faut maintenant compléter la description des dits 3 enjeux, ainsi que la mission et les objectifs du site.
[Mise à jour février 2012: l'adresse du site est maintenant: http://lesenjeux.fr/ ]
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A web site development proposal for ktorrent.org
In the previous pages, I was discussing the benefits of the Blog + Wiki + Issue tracker community web site concept. Though this concept is not limited to software development web sites (far from that), they are the prime target to implement it. http://ktorrent.org/ is one such site which would greatly benefit from a reorganization. In this article, I'll first describe the current web site organization, its strengths and weaknesses. Then I'll go over a proposed upgrade path to a fully integrated Blog + Wiki + Issue Tracker software development community web site.
Introduction and Overview
Forums are very popular software. However, by internet standards, they are a very old technology. Such software are popular because of their ease of use and ease of installation, but they do not serve well the communities using them. In some of the other articles in this section, I give hints as to why forums are more often than not ill-adapted to the site's objectives.
Instead of a traditional forum software, I suggest building web sites around 3 main content types:
- Wiki: the end result of the collaborative effort of the community.
The Blog + Wiki + Issue tracker community web site concept
Since the launch of http://overshoot.tv/ in 2008, I have been using and promoting more and more the Blog + Wiki + Issue tracker community web site concept.
This section and the articles below is to explain a bit more this concept, and why community/activist/development web sites ought to consider adopting it.
Problème de scanning
Submitted by augustin on Mon, 2010-01-18 06:55J'essaye depuis plusieurs mois de préparer le livre de Bon Papa Lemaire afin de le publier sur le net.
Une connaissance m'a fait un test scan d'une page, mais on avait choisit le mauvais format, donc mes essais d'OCR (reconnaissance optique de characatères) n'ont pas été fructueux.
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