I am playing a bit with geoportail.fr, a new service like GoogleMaps. geoportail is more limited because it just shows the French territory, which is sometimes an adavantage :-)
Indeed, geoportail has some very good representation from the … French West Indies, including St.Barths. Hehe. Let’s have a small tour: geoportail picture, and then some “real” pictures from by two travels to St.Barths.
World Cup 2006: Our “sooooo-old-French-players” have just won against the favorite team, Brazil.
What for a great match, after having won against Spain on Tuesday :-) What is also just crazy is that the Brazilians had just one shot on goal during the whole game.
And what for a game for Zidane :-)
[via forbes.com]
In front of France President Jacques Chirac, the French made Brazil look so ordinary – at times amateurish – that the yellow-clad Brazilians in the crowd even were whistling at their team late in the match.
[via worldsoccer.com]
Ronaldo had a couple of fierce shots that Barthez managed to deny, but overall, the attacking quartet of Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, Kaka and Adriano simply had not functioned and on the night the French, and in particular the imperious Zidane, fully deserved their win.
The favourites are out, but they can have few complaints about their exit. They had struggled to justify their status as favourites from the moment they began the tournament and the lingering suspicion that the team were not as good as their individual reputations, looks fully justified.
For France, the dream continues, and on this form, they must fancy their chances of emulating their 1998 success. Such a thought seemed unlikely two weeks ago, but one can only marvel at their current renaissance.
[via cbc.ca]
France’s victory also keeps alive the career of Zinedine Zidane, who was sensational against Brazil with his magical play in midfield. Considered one of the greatest players of his era, the midfield maestro plans to retire at the end of the World Cup.
First 2-pages article published in Switzerland (in German, hehe) from netzwoche and written by Michael Fritschi. Great stuff to our point of view! You can find the article here in pdf (the article is not available online).
Helvetia Patria E-Business Center wird zum autonomen Branchen-Provider
Der Aufbau einer Multi-Channel-Kommunikationsplattform für die sechs Ländergesellschaften der Helvetia Patria Versicherungen hat zur Gründung eines E-Business-Tochterunternehmens geführt. Dieses will als Provider die in den vergangenen Jahren entwickelte Lösung an branchenverwandte Firmen weiterverkaufen.
Finally, we managed to take some pictures from the whole team in Zurich, Switzerland! The 13 crazy guys of ecenter solutions. So great :-)
Standing up:
Constantin, Laurent, Roy, Nick, Rolf, Cédric, Thomas, Peter
Kneeling:
Didier (oh, it is me ;-), Philippe, Lorenz, Oli, Bojan
[via Seth Godin]
My dear SW-engineer-friends, a MUST-read for you ;-)
First of all, congratualtions to our “has-been too old” French football players :-) You did a great job, you offered us so much emotion yesterday, as in 1998. Just magic.
And my dear Spanish colleagues, friends and non-friends, journalists, trainer and players, sometimes, as in the business field, it is *definitely* better to keep a low profile and to respect your opponents, and more especially before playing a match, even if you have won your last 26 games.
Some examples….
Striker Thierry Henry described the rival supporters’ behaviour as shameful.
“I’ve never seen that before in the World Cup. It’s shameful that their supporters reacted like that during the Marseillaise.
“I don’t think the final scoreline was an accurate reflection of what happened,” insisted coach Luis Aragones after Spain’s first defeat in 26 games.
Aragones and Henry are not the best of friends after Aragones’ used a racist remark in referring to the France striker while trying to motivate Jose Antonio Reyes, an Arsenal teammate of Henry.
Domenech also suggested that some Spain supporters had made monkey noises when the bus carrying the France players arrived at the stadium.
For chance, our next opponents’ behaviour, Brazil!!, is great, with a lot of humour. I am sure it will be a great match, as all the confrontations France vs. Brazil.
Allez les Bleus!
Hotel NH Laguna Palace in Venice, very particular architecture and roof.
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[via BetaNews]
Very good initiative! Good point for MS to have integrated this add-in. Free download here.
[…] “The goal of Creative Commons is to provide authors and artists with simple tools to mark their creative work with the freedom they intend it to carry,” founder Lawrence Lessig said. “We’re incredibly excited to work with Microsoft to make that ability easily available to the hundreds of millions of users of Microsoft Office.”
Users of the add-in would be able to select from a variety of licenses available from Creative Commons. Additionally, the add-in could be used to allow work to become part of the public domain.
“The collaboration of Microsoft and Creative Commons to bring Creative Commons licenses to Microsoft Office applications underscores how for-profit companies and nonprofit organizations can work together to bring innovative ideas and tools to the public,” said Alan Yates, general manager of the Information Worker Division at Microsoft.
[via Seth Godin]
Wow, again a great post from Seth about the right timing for living your job.
[…] Doug needs to leave for a very simple reason. He’s been branded. Everyone at the company has an expectation of who Doug is and what he can do. Working your way up from the mailroom sounds sexy, but in fact, it’s entirely unlikely. Doug has hit a plateau. He’s not going to be challenged, pushed or promoted to president. Doug, regardless of what he could actually accomplish, has stopped evolving — at least in the eyes of the people who matter.
If he leaves and joins another company, he gets to reinvent himself. No one in the new company will remember young Doug from 10 years ago. No, they’ll treat Doug as the new Doug, the Doug with endless upside and little past. […]
Our parents and grandparents believed you should stay at a job for five years, 10 years or even your whole life. But in a world where companies come and go — where they grow from nothing to the Fortune 500 and then disappear, all in a few years — that’s just not possible.
Here’s the deal, and here’s what I told Doug: The time to look for a new job is when you don’t need one. The time to switch jobs is before it feels comfortable. Go. Switch. Challenge yourself; get yourself a raise and a promotion. You owe it to your career and your skills.
