When I was a kid working in the bread factory, my nemesis was dough. It was sticky and hard to remove and it got everywhere. I got home with specks of dough in my hair. Every shift included a couple of hours of scraping dough off of machinery. I carried dough-scrapers in my back pocket. Sometimes a huge lump of dough would go flying someplace where it shouldn't and gum up everything. I had dough nightmares. I worked in the production side of the factory. The other side did packing and shipping. Their nemesis was crumbs. Cru... lire la suite
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When I was a kid working in the bread factory, my nemesis was dough. It was sticky and hard to remove and it got everywhere. I got home with specks of dough in my hair. Every shift included a couple of hours of scraping dough off of machinery. I carried dough-scrapers in my back pocket.
David Brooks is perfect for the New York Times. He writes stuff like this: Some of the contributors to The National Review's highly influential blog, The Corner, look to Fred Thompson and Mitt Romney to save the conservative movement. Their hatred of McCain is so strong, it's earned its own name:
A number of people have asked some version of an illuminating question: If the total value of the shares of GM, Ford and Chrysler is less than $7 billion dollars, why would we have a $25 - 50 billion bailout; why wouldn't we just buy the companies and save ourselves a ton of dough? Because (at least in the case of GM) we would need to pony up billions more in cash as the new owners within less than three months to continue to fund operations, or else just go into bankruptcy then.
What is best in life? To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women. This is precisely what the Democratic party achieved with Barack Obama's historic victory on November 4. The Democrats increased their majorities in both the House and Senate while eliminating anything even resembling a functioning opposition.
Well, the Verizon Center certainly looks excited (sarcasm, there's nobody there). and I'm sure to the chagrin of all, Eddie Jordan is going with the same starters (Dixon in for the injured Antonio Daniels). Hey, the Wiz win a tip. strong move by Etan against Beasley on the opening play.
Perhaps the most anticipated and near-mythological album of all time is now out, at least over at MySpace Music. I'll try not to bag on that too much, but the experience is terrible there. So with the reviews starting to come, I decided to give it a first listen and give my initial impressions.
Writing from within the train, between Clermont-Fd and Paris. Finally finding the time to read Jimbo's testimonial in front of the US Senate earlier this week. I had been warned that it was very US-centric, I did not find that too bad given the circonstances. I mostly appreciated the clarity of the message, which comes with two examples of current successful uses of two private wikis, one being hosted by a large US company, Best Buy, the other providing access to intelligence to individuals with appropriate clearance.
What makes France such an endearing and infuriating country at the same time? Par Anthere, dimanche 2 décembre 2007 à 22: Wikipédia :
Google Translation Glitches Par Anthere, mardi 23 octobre 2007 à 12: Wikipédia :
Brion Vibber (CTO of Wikimedia Foundation) just answered to one of my questions, with interesting links. My concern was announcements such as this one, where it is reported that In August, 2007, Answers. com, a publicly traded company, announced to its shareholders that, due to a slight change in Google’s ranking algorithm, traffic and revenue for the company would decline by over 25%.
Last Monday, I informed the community I did not intend to run for the board of Wikimedia Foundation this summer. I do not know if I ever would have the guts to be more specific, but here is at least the official announcement Dear community members, Though it was a (very) difficult decision to make, I have decided not to be a candidate to the coming elections of the board of trustees of Wikimedia Foundation as a community representative.
Last week, I went to Lausanne, to attend Going Solo. I'll remember it warmly. First, I crashed in Cecile appartment. Cecile is a wikipedian who I had already met in Nancy over a year ago, during the RMLLs. My memory of that first meeting was a woman all dressed in black and telling me stories about Stallman (which made my hair frizzle on my head).
Piochons ensemble Par Anthere, samedi 31 mai 2008 à 10: Wikipédia :
Assez inhabituel pour être mentionné, un francophone évoque les élections. Dans son billet du 15 juin, Pierrot souligne différents arguments pouvant expliquer le quasi monopole des anglophones (13 candidats sur 15 cette année). Je vais me permettre de souligner un point qui ne semble pas avoir retenu son attention.
Message destinés aux bloggeurs wikipedia Par Anthere, lundi 30 juin 2008 à 12: Wikipédia :
A deux reprises au cours des dernières semaines, j'ai réalisé la méconnaissance du terme "Wikinomie" et l'intérêt potentiel du terme pour plusieurs personnes. Dans un premier temps, j'ai été contactée par un journaliste, qui travaillait pour une société (que je ne nommerais pas) et souhaitait rédiger un article sur la Wikinomie dans une revue interne au groupe.
et l'utiliser pour faire tous les déplacements à pied dans Davos. Même dans les fumées puantes des pots d'échappements du matin. il est plus rapide de se rendre d'hotel à hotel ou au centre des congrés, à pied plutôt qu'avec les shuttles. On se croirait sur le périph. Dès l'arrivée au centre des congrés, se précipiter pour s'enregistrer aux sessions.
symfony 1. is almost there! I've already committed the new validation and widget framework some time ago. And the last two missing classes, sfForm and sfFormField, will be committed by the end of the month. Then, I will dedicate time to write some documentation about the new system.
RoundUp: BigCarrot, Whereboutz, Zipvo, RadioHead, Coca & There. com Monday 10 December 2007 à 10: €” by Aziz Haddad BigCarrot est un nouveau site (en bêta privée) qui vise à offrir de l’aide financière aux individus/groupes afin de subventionner des idées innovantes.
COLUMBUS JUNCTION, Iowa – For the Clinton campaign, there was never a doubt: The show must go on. With much of this state beset by a heavy blanket of fog, the carefully sketched plans of presidential candidates were thrown into disarray. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton was campaigning in New Hampshire, but her surrogate in chief is spending the weekend here.