"Sans laisser d'adresse" est la dernière traduction parue de Harlan Coben - c'est donc comma dans chacun de ces romans, une intrigue basé autour d'une enquête. Ce roman à pour personnages principaux ceux de la série Bolitar, C'est à dire Myron, Win, Esperanza, Big Cindy. L'intrigue se déroule presque 10 après la découverte du fils naturelle de Myron dans l'épisode précédent. J'ai, comme d'habitude avec cet auteur, dévoré les trois cents et quelques pages de cette aventure dont l'action commence en Europe et à Paris, avant de revenir dans la banlieue de New York - lieu de prédilection de Myron. J'ai beaucoup aimé l'intrigue, qui reste simple et n'implique à aucun moment les clients de l'agence de Myron, c'est donc un huis clos entre les personnages de la série. L'intrigue n'est pas trop alambiqué, du moins avant l'arrivé des deux derniers chapitre, là où tout bascule. Comme dans tous les romans de Coben, le dernier nœud se défait lors des derniers chapitres. J'ai trouvé justement que cela allait beaucoup trop vite à la fin par rapport au rythme du reste du roman - comme si l'auteur avait voulu soit en finir, soit respecter des contraintes de taille. La traduction de Roxane Azimi est excellent. Bref un bon moment de lecture en perspective.
mars 2010 Archives
Hier soir et avant hier soir j'ai passé un bon moment à ajouter des métadonnées sur les photos que j'ai faite lors de mon séjour au Danemark. En tout j'ai du passer environ quatre heures sur le sujet. La partie la plus longue étant l'ajout des coordonnées des prises de vue (et cette partie est quasi automatique). Ensuite j'ai ajouté des mots clefs décrivant le contenu de mes images , c'est beaucoup plus manuel et beaucoup plus coûteux en temps. Il en résulte, que la plupart des images que je partage sur flickr sont riches en métadonnées.
Si je suis d'accord pour perdre tout ce temps, c'est parce que je trouve que l'ajout de métadonnée ajoute beaucoup de valeur à une image digitale, à un mp3 ou à une vidéo. En effet les technologies d'indexation actuelles sont essentiellement basé sur des données textuelles. Il est très coûteux en puissance de calcul de faire de la reconnaissance vidéo, d'image ou de son. Ces technologies existent mais sont beaucoup trop gourmande en puissance de calcul pour que je puisse les utiliser. Il en va de même pour les moteur de recherche sur Internet, ils vont être capable d'indexer et donc de rendre mes images visibles à un plus grand nombre, si mes images sont accompagnées de mots les décrivant. C'est donc un coût en terme de temps - mais un énorme gain en matière de visibilité.
Over the last year - the Thunderbird QA team, has organized almost every week a triage event - where we were asking for contributors and users to come and give us a hand. The idea is that with more manpower and more people participating, we would get better bug reports and cleaner bug reports in the hands of the developers.
Usually we are very broad in the scope of the day. The few times we haven't been broad, and that we've been very concise on what we would be working on, more people showed up. With that in mind expect bugdays to be more focus on a very small area of Thunderbird in the next few weeks. If you want to participate, this change should make it easier for you to come and give a hand. This week's bugday is about deleting Attachments. Subject of upcoming bugdays aren't defined yet - they are generally announced on the Tuesday of the week. To get notified - either follow this wikipage or read mdat, where I usually post an announcement.
Après une semaine passé dans des hôtel Danois, il y a quelque chose que je ne m'explique pas. Dans tous les hôtels où j'ai dormi, j'ai pu profiter d'internet via le wifi. Le signal était fort, la bande passante abondante (Joost et même youtube en HD, sans aucun soucis). Je n'ai pas vu de restrictions sur les ports (mais bon je n'ai utilisé que 80,443, 587 et imaps). Le tout sans aucun supplément tarifaire.
Maintenant si je compare avec les autres hôtels où je suis descendu récemment à Prague, Bruxelles ou Vancouver, je ne comprend pas que ces hôtels osent demander jusqu'à 15€ les trois heures de connexions avec une qualité de service aussi mauvaise. Pourquoi les voyageurs d'affaires acceptent-ils de payer internet si cher et d'avoir des connections si mauvaises ?
This was my first attendance to OSD (the former linuxforums I believe). The event is held on a yearly basis (almost) in the beautiful city of Copenhagen. Other events of the same kind I've attended previously include Apache Con Europe and Fosdem.
I've enjoyed the opening keynote and loved the closing one by Dan Klein, who I think made a really nice point about starting things from scratch instead of always patching everything we build - and he compared software with one town in Ohio, who's name I forgot. Funny and making a very interesting point. The other talk I attended on the Saturday was the one on the peek at google's infrastructure - didn't learn much at that one - but the earth/map demo at the end about image recognition was just awesome. The announced but not organized GPG/PGP keysigning party and CACert signing went pretty well (I think I got around 10 new signatures).
On Friday I followed a talk in danish on the evolution of computing over the years, I stayed in that room just because I loved the name of the talk Sarfarissoq - the slides where a mixed of english and danish which help to follow and understand the talk. One other talk was about using google wave as a replacement for email to manage scrums and computer related projects in general. I must say I disagreed with the talker even though I think that having a few specific widgets in your wave might help to make it easier to use. But the two or three times I've tried to use wave myself it was a complete disaster.
The two Other talks I followed in the afternoon were email related. One was a presentation of a product developed in the Netherlands called Zarafa and which acts as an alternative to Exchange. It mimics perfectly the web UI of Outlook , works with outlook if you deploy a special mapi dll before using it. Of course if works with Thunderbird even if the screenshots were from the 2.x era. The second talk was way more interesting and was given by Ralf Hildebrandt & Patrick Koetter - who have been mail admins for mail.python.org. They explain the various techniques they developed and put in place in order for that server to have a good reputation. The higher the reputation the better deliverability. The interesting point in the talk was how some users would interact with their webmail ui. Some just use the spam button to remove the email from their inbox - but by doing so they also damage the reputation of the server sending the emails, solution found was to unsubscribe the user from the mailing list so he wouldn't mark messages from the mailing list as being spam. Same thing for people who can't unsubscribe to mailing lists - but a new standard is being worked on to make management of subscription to mailing list easy for users.
On top of that I got a two nice new T-shirts, one from the event the other from the OpenSolaris enthusiasts. Overall I had fun and managed to learn a few things at the same time. So I would qualify the event as being informative.
Pictures I took of the event :
So I'm traveling in Danemark this week. While I was there I've been trying to find out of print CDs from Greenlandic musicians. My reasoning behind that was that, as Greenland is still a Danish territory - and most of the young greenlanders and up studying in dk. Meaning that some of them could have sold some of their music and that I could find some of those old titles that I've been looking for, for more than a year now (In case you're not following, I'm looking for the Initial Zikaza CD, two unnuaq band CDs, and a few other rare stuff).
So I've been in Århus and Copenhagen and I visited some second hand shops carrying old CDs and old LPs - In the first I visited I found a very old CD from Rasmus Lyberth (made by Rasmus Lyberth). The second shop I visited, which had a way bigger collection of CDs, I asked the store owner - who looked at me and said : "huh, greenlandic music ?". I had a quick look and didn't find any title. In CPH I started in Accord.dk and was told no, we have nothing, but try the shop at the next corner. I went in it asked and was looked with a " Why would I have such music here", and I didn't look. I came back to that same shop the next day to have a look , but was unable to find anything. While the shop owner did recognized he knew about Sume, Julie and Rasmus Lyberth. He was very helpful. Then I ended up in another shop, whose shop keeper looked like an old grown up hippie. I started looking and then went to the shop owner and asked. Man was he nice - we started talking about music and Greenland and he gave me one website where I should contact a shop owner and then told me that back in the 60's he had participated in the making of a release of a group from Greenland called "The eskimos" and gave me a place where I could find the music. So It seems sume wasn't the first group of rock from Greenland as I though it was. Next step in my quest, get that earlier piece of Greenland music and organize a trip to Greenland to raid shop and try to find if they don't have any leftovers ....
Pour moi la soupe a trop souvent été associé, soit a une mixture de légume plus ou moins liquide, du bouillon avec de nouilles en forme de lettre dans le fond, ou un soupe au champignon liquide avec de la crème fraiche et Maggi.
Ce soir j'ai réalisé que j'aimais la soupe , en dégustant une délicieuse soupe jaune (impossible de dire à quoi, le menu était en danois), au restaurant l'estragon. Tout en la dégustant, j'ai réalisé que j'avais aussi aimé, le soupe à la tomate avec de boulettes de viandes, la soupe au cuisse de grenouille et la soupe de pois. Le point commun entre toute ces soupes, elles contiennent quelque chose que je peux mastiquer - du poisson, de la viande, ou bien encore de la saucisse. Donc j'aime les soupes lorsque celles-ci ne sont pas complètement liquides ou pâteuses.