Lors de leurs discours � la t�l�vision, la plupart des politiciens et dignitaires ont � leur droite le drapeau de leur nation, plac� � l’extr�me gauche de l’�cran.
Tony Blair, lui, avait aujourd’hui un abat-jour � sa droite (plus pro�minent que sur cette photo).

Est-ce qu’il y a l� une symbolique qui m’�chappe?

And since I’m on the topic of dating AND the military today, here’s some reading for you:

Pride and honor. Limited visits. Long-distance love letters. Even if you never imagined yourself with a military man, now you know that making this kind of relationship work can be complicated – but it can also be romantic.
From Dating a military man

And there’s also:

Writing letters to soldiers. Knitting socks by hand. Volunteering with the USO. American women have a long history of showing support for our military troops, and now 21st century women are looking for new ways to help .
From Military Men and the Women Who Love Them

Make cds, not war, or how to dodge the draft while having fun in the process

John Carter, a Texas Republican congressman, claims that jailing college students who download copyrighted music would help stop piracy. (via Wired News)

“If you were to prosecute someone and give them three years, I think this would act as a deterrent. A felony conviction is a terrible thing to have on your record. Among other things, a person would not be able to become an officer in the U.S. military if convicted of a felony.”

Yep, that last point should convince kids to stop sharing music files over the net, right?

Comme un poisson sans bicyclette?

Male. Obsessed with computers. Lacking a girlfriend. Aged 14 to 34. Capable of sowing chaos worldwide.
That is the profile of the average computer-virus writer, an anti-virus expert said on Tuesday.
They have a chronic lack of girlfriends, are usually socially inadequate and are drawn compulsively to write self-replicating codes. It’s a form of digital graffiti to them.

A chronic lack of girlfriends?

From Reuters.co.uk (linked via Good Morning Silicon Valley)

Un jour dans la vie

Je ne sais pas si ce projet photographique est tr�s connu mais c’est la premi�re fois que j’en entends parler (via Pssst). On doit s’incrire puis on re�oit une date pour une journ�e que l’on doit d�crire en quatre photographies. Pour l’instant il n’y a que trois journ�es d�crites par des qu�b�cois dans les archives de Un jour dans la vie.

En tout cas le concept est populaire: je me suis inscrite et ma journ�e sera le jeudi 1er juillet… 2004! Je prendrai probablement en photo la c�l�bre journ�e du d�m�nagement au Qu�bec!

L’app�tit vient en cliquant

L’enthousiaste ami Michel veut organiser un genre de SXSW qu�b�cois. Sur son carnet, il en dit:
“Des trucs pratiques, faut avoir plein de trucs pratiques. Des CodeConf, des journ�es DV/FCP, etc… pas juste du pelletage de nuages.”

Ce coll�ge am�ricain vient peut-�tre, sans le savoir, de lui donner une id�e pour un premier atelier: un cours de bonnes mani�res � table juste pour les geeks. (via Wired News)

Voici quelques suggestions, de mon cru:

- Lavez-vous les mains quand vous passez de votre clavier peu rago�tant � votre assiette.
- Pas de portable � table.
- Toute r�f�rence � un menu doit �tre strictement d’ordre culinaire afin de ne pas troubler les convives.
- Votre serviette ne doit pas �tre utilis�e pour y dessiner l’architecture de votre prochain site Web, m�me si c’est pour l’expliquer � votre voisin.
- Ne jamais prononcer le mot diariste � table.
- Aucune r�f�rence aux standards avant l’arriv�e du dessert.
- Le premier qui vante les m�rites de MovableType doit bouffer les choux de Bruxelles de tout le monde.

Allez-y de vos suggestions dans la section des commentaires ci-dessous!

Same here

C’est la m�me chose pour moi. Mais bon, �a va passer.

Brain twitch

I am not dyslexic, and as far as I know, I don’t have Tourette syndrome. But sometimes my brain plays weird tricks on me.

Take this example: my boyfriend has a very good friend named Frank. He also has a very strange cat named Spiff. Frank doesn’t look like Spiff at all – in fact, Frank looks like the long lost twin of my ex-husband, but that’s a whole other story. Frank is a tall man with small glasses and a lovely balding head. Spiff has a lot of orange hair, and he loves to walk on the desk or on my boyfriend’s glasses. Frank is a soft-spoken and intelligent family man who is very knowledgeable in the subject of underground Canadian punk music of the seventies and eighties. Spiff is a silly cat who produces sounds that could sometimes be mistaken for punk music, but generally sound like he desperately needs to be fed. Even when his bowl is full.

For some very odd reason, every time I want to talk about Frank to my boyfriend, the name “Spiff” comes out of my mouth. And every time I want to yell at my boyfriend’s cat, I tell him to “shut up, Frank!”. My boyfriend is patient, but he’s starting to give me weird looks. The cat thinks it’s pretty funny.

Now that I am aware of this strange brain switch, I try to repress it. It makes things even worse.

Last Sunday, Spi… I mean Frank came over to watch a DVD with us. I managed to spend the whole evening without calling him Spiff once, but my brain was hurting and the morning after, I woke up with a bad head cold.

I’m starting to really worry.

Martha Stewart invades Slashdot!

There’s a surprising discussion on Decorating your Computer Room in Slashdot.
(linked via Idle Words, a very interesting site I plan to read from now on, thanks to the good Capitaine at Navire.net)

I can only imagine what some of their Blogging Spots look like!

Un doctorat en neurochirurgie avec �a?

Comme le dit si bien cet article publi� aujourd’hui dans le magazine Salon, ce n’est pas le “bon temps” de se chercher un boulot dans le domaine des nouvelles technologies ces jours-ci, apr�s tous les cong�diements des deux derni�res ann�es. Les demandes des employeurs sont souvent ridicules et bien s�r, inversement proportionnelles au salaire offert… quand on offre un salaire!

Mettons fin � cette folie! Une am�ricaine �coeur�e par tout cet abus de la part des employeurs a d�cid� de cr�er un site web: Fuck That Job Dot Com. Le nom fait sourire; les histoires d’horreur qu’on y raconte le font un peu moins…