Manu and myself will be again at the Montreux Jazz Festival on Juli 18, 2007. We will have the chance to see Van Morrison and Candy Dulfer, for me the first time for both artists!
via Seth Godin
Again, a good post from Seth. And as usual very inspiring.
Is it possible that people recommend a Mac so often because of things that having nothing to do with a side-by-side analysis of the speed of data entry in Word?
All a rhetorical way of pointing out that businesses (and people) do two things. Most of focus on just one (at least when we’re doing the task at hand) which is the task at hand. But, there’s something else that’s far more important, something disconnected from what’s produced but certainly related: how you made the customer feel.
How’s this for a 98% rule: By a factor of three, what you do is not nearly as important as how it makes people feel.
If you buy that, then the question is this: why do you spend almost all your time on the wrong thing?
March 2007 was a good month concerning the number of visits on my blog.
The third best month till the launch in March 2004. That means 3 years of blogging, already! Pffuuu.
March 2007: 103’156 pageviews (3’328 pv/day), 58’718 unique visitors (1’894 visitors/day), and 12.21 GB of data transferred.
By the way, Friday April 13, was the most active day ever for this blog with 6’825 pageviews during one day… Wow.
And this, although my very rare blogging in the last weeks.
Thanks a lot for coming back here and investing a bit of your time, very appreciated :-)
The last autumn was a kind of spring, the last winter a kind of autumn, and now we have a spring-summer ;-) With one beautiful consequence, a lot of flowers in the garden. Have a look.
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As you have seen, I am not very active (again…) on my blog because of some quite interesting professional coming changes, which are *very* time consuming, also during the week-ends ;-) More to come till end of Mai.
Thanks to all of you who are supporting me in the “background” during this tough phase.
Upon that, as you know, we have some elections in France… I have already voted this morning and my wife and myself have taken our son (5 years old) with us because he wanted to see what does that mean “to vote”. He was quite impressed and couldn’t understand why he has to wait till his 18 years to be able to vote :-)
To my French readers, do not forget to vote, this citizen process is so important. You know how many people say that we are lucky to live in a democracy. So, VOTE and express your choice!!!
via Loic
Loic, who was is charged of six apart EMEA, has left the company which is in charge of TypePad and movable type. The official press release of six apart can be found here.
Loic is one of the most famous blogger. He has influenced me a lot, specially when I have started to blog in 2004. He did a great job to evangelize blogging in France, Europe and all around the world. And on top, he has organized two great conferences in Paris in 2005/2006: les blogs 2.0 and leweb3.
Loic, respect from my side and I wish you all the best for your next steps. Take care!
via CICLOPS
The Cassini-Huygens mission is bringing again absolutely fantastic pictures, this time from Rhea, one of the moon of Saturn.
Rhea is the second largest of Saturn’s moons at 1,528 kilometers (949 miles) across. This view looks toward the unilluminated side of the rings from about 3 degrees above the ringplane.
Images taken using red, green and blue spectral filters were combined to create this natural color view. The view was acquired with the wide-angle camera on Feb. 4, 2007. Cassini acquired the view at a distance of approximately 1.2 million kilometers (700,000 miles) from Saturn and 679,000 kilometers (422,000 miles) from Rhea. Image scale is 68 kilometers (42 miles) per pixel on Saturn and about 40 kilometers (25 miles) per pixel on Rhea.
Actually, I am back since last week… Just too many things to do, quite a tough but exciting time. As planned, our holidays were just terrific. The weather was excellent (best in three years), the food and wine great, the people from St Barth too. Super service all the time, very nice with kids. Our villa was just, wow, wonderful :-) Crazy views and sunsets, infinity pool. Pfffuuu. We are preparing our next stay! This time with my wife and my son is just the best time of the year.
St Barth is definitely a paradise, and not just for millionaires and stars (we are not one of these).
Hey, and hello to all my *professional enemies* who are reading my blog :-) Without you, my life would be too quiet, it is really nice to have you. And stay tuned, I am completely full of good and positive energy again, you will have a difficult time, I can ensure you. Are you ready for the coming fights? I am :-) And these pictures below are dedicated to you, you couldn’t impact my holidays.
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My dear readers and friends:
I am living the online-world for more than 2 weeks. I will be back on March 12.
I am flying to St. Barth in a few hours and there, we will be confronted with a heavy program: sun, beach, walking, playing, swimming, sleeping, eating (quite a lot of restaurants to visit again, plus some new ones), smoking good cigars (also new stuff to try) on the terrace while watching at marvelous sunset, etc.
I have already the eyes full of all these explosive beautiful colors. Weather seems to be ok, the usual agenda: 29°C during the day, 24°C during the night, ocean at 26°C.
Wow, I *really* need these days off :-)
Take care!
– Didier
via Matthew Aslett
Matthew is bringing a good example of a project which wouldn’t really benefit from an opensourcing approach. And explains why.
SteelEye is well-known as a Linux-related company and does contribute to the Linux development process, but its software is not actually open source. According to SteelEye’s president and CEO, Paul Adams, that situation is unlikely to change in the near future.
[…] While the company is keen to contribute to the open source development process, it is unconvinced that opening up the code to its core projects would be worthwhile. Key to the debate is whether it would be possible to create a thriving community around the company’s high availability clustering technology.
[…] Clearly open source is not always the solution, and the ability to generate a thriving community should be a key consideration for any vendor.