I like very much Japanese maples and we have just transferred ours from a pot to the ground. And, its leaves have just changed their color…
And yesterday morning, a very unusual light and sky!
Strasbourg, about 1h by car from my home, is a very nice city. I had the chance to study there during two years at Le Lycée Kléber. My wife was studying there during more than 8 years (…) at the Louis Pasteur University (doctor of medicine).
We are always going there with pleasure, specially to visit the “Petite France”, part of the “Grande Ile”, one of the most beautiful area of Strasbourg, and registered at the UNESCO World Heritage list since 1988.
Surrounded by two arms of the River Ill, the Grande Ile (Big Island) is the historic centre of the Alsatian capital. It has an outstanding complex of monuments within a fairly small area. The cathedral, the four ancient churches and the Palais Rohan – former residence of the prince-bishops – far from appearing as isolated monuments, form a district that is characteristic of a medieval town and illustrates Strasbourg’s evolution from the 15th to the 18th century.
Access to the whole pictures-set here.
So, we are back since last Friday. As usual, the “landing” is quite difficult after 2 weeks on this incredible island. And not just because of the jet lag…
I would like to share with you 8 pictures from our trip. And no, I don’t know why 8, but it sounds good ;-)
Today, July 25 2008, is … the System Administrator Appreciation Day!!
A sysadmin unpacked the server […] from its box, installed an operating system, patched it for security, made sure the power and air conditioning was working in the server room, monitored it for stability, set up the software, and kept backups in case anything went wrong. […]
A sysadmin installed the routers, laid the cables, configured the networks, set up the firewalls, and watched and guided the traffic for each hop of the network that runs over copper, fiber optic glass, and even the air itself to bring the Internet to your computer. […]
A sysadmin makes sure your network connection is safe, secure, open, and working. A sysadmin makes sure your computer is working in a healthy way on a healthy network. A sysadmin takes backups to guard against disaster both human and otherwise, holds the gates against security threats and crackers […]
[…] A sysadmin is a professional, who plans, worries, hacks, fixes, pushes, advocates, protects and creates good computer networks, to get you your data, to help you do work — to bring the potential of computing ever closer to reality.
So, now, as you see again what we are talking about, what is this sysadmin appreciation day?
Consider all the daunting tasks and long hours (weekends too.) Let’s be honest, sometimes we don’t know our System Administrators as well as they know us. Remember this is one day to recognize your System Administrator for their workplace contributions and to promote professional excellence. Thank them for all the things they do for you and your business.
So for us at Innoveo, we have Olivier, our sysadmin :-)
Olivier: this is your day. Umh, already finished, but anyway!
Olivier, as usual, kissing his servers ;-)
Network cable sorting exercise
Sometimes, you have to be alone to solve some prod issues…And, at the same time, others are just eating a great dinner. Pfffuuuu….
But, after the effort, some comfort…and cigars. Guess with whom ;-)
It seems that we still have some “room for improvement”. Gosh!
OLIVIER HOPE YOU HAD A GOOD SYSADMIN DAY ;-)
via CICLOPS
Again, a fantastic view of Saturn.
As seasons change on Saturn, and sunlight creeps farther north, the region surrounding the north pole is steadily coming to light.
This scene reveals many features in Saturn’s dynamic and beautiful atmosphere, including a detail largely obscured from the imaging cameras until now. On the terminator at center right is part of the polar hexagon, which was previously observed by Cassini’s Visible and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) and Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS). These instruments used heat radiated from Saturn to observe the polar hexagon (rather than reflected sunlight, as is the case in this view). The hexagon was first imaged by the Voyager spacecraft more than 25 years ago.
The view looks toward the unilluminated side of the rings from about 38 degrees above the ringplane and is centered on a region 63 degrees north of the Saturnian equator.
The image has been brightened to show details at high northern latitudes, where solar illumination is presently weak.
I will be in the Cap-Ferret / France for one week.
I need to smell and to feel the ocean again ;-)
Take care!
With some delay, the third post about our trip to St Barth in 2007. I have to go on! In now 12 (!) days, we will fly there gain.
Do not forget your sunglasses, before having a look at the pictures.
What is interesting at St Barth is that there are so many beaches, which are so different from each other. If you stay 2 weeks, you are able to visit one different beach per day.
In 2007, we were at the following:
I have published my last post about Saint Barth for a while… It was exactly on May 28, 2007. Quite a long time ago! On the other side, in 25 days, we will be again in Saint Barth for about 3 weeks. So, I should really now begin to enter this “period”, step-by-step.
I know that I am making some of you quite nervous with my “Saint Barth” posts. Sorry guys, nobody is forcing you to read them ;-)
In the Part I, I have introduced our travel and talked about the “terrible” weather there ;-). In the coming posts, I will write about our villa (part II), the beaches (arrgggg, part III), the restaurants and the shopping (part IV), the fauna and flora (part V), the harbor and some boats (part VI), some sunsets (part VII) and a conclusion (part VIII).
If you would like to have a look at my flickr-set about this travel, you can go there. 113 pictures, also available in their original size (3072×2304).
Last year (in 2007), we have decided not to go in a hotel as the first two times (Hotel La Banane and François Plantation). Not that these hotels were bad or something like that. This time, we wanted to test a stay with a villa renting. There are quite a lot of possibilities and different renting agencies. We have decided us for the “historical” real estate company of St Barth, called SiBarth. Huge choice of villas on the wimco website, very precise descriptions which correspond to the reality. Very good service.
We were at the villa TEO, which is quite new and absolutely beautiful.
Top ten reasons to come and stay in villa TEO:
Quite a long time since we haven’t got this kind of minus temperature (-10°C).
