tlog

Lately, some friends of mine enlightened quite a few of my evenings at Paris, by playing music and — I should say — stubbornly making use of a fair amount of talent in doing so :).

Now, I guess the least I can do is to thank them by pointing at them from here:

• soul / jazz with LadyVelvet
• funk / soul with Funky Delay
• choro with Brazz

… though probably not so far from least !

I’ve decided to give flickr a go. So, I’ve uploaded a few pictures over there, and took the occasion to do things a bit differently: less photos displayed and no album but genuine titles and tags.

Here is the link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/27247511@N04/

Hopefully this will give a bit more visibility to some of those pictures. We shall see…

First part: The Herbaliser

And then: De La Soul

… hard to resist.

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Since Miro2.0 has been released a few weeks ago, I’ve had some time to use it and I thought I could take this occasion to share some of the podcasts I folow regularly on the internet.

But first of all a great thanx to Miro’s developer that did a great job in tackling the two major problems I had with the software: impossibility to navigate the list of feeds, while playing a video (or audio) and performance. The only remaining thing on my whishlist would be that Miro handles image feeds (ala CoolIris for instance).

Now for the list of podcasts I listen to, most of them are in french, so here is a quick selection among the english speaking ones:

• ESOCast some info on the southern observatory in Chile
• Martin Bailey Photography Podcast: nice podcast about Martin’s work

• Jeff Curto’s Camera Position : about the “creative side” of photography

• TED Theme: Tales of Invention : high-tech fancy conferences

For a more exhaustive list see my OPML subscription file: miro_subscriptions

The Processing library that initially targeted at graphics designers, has recently been released in a stable version, and I’ve just found the time to have a quick look at it.

Processing on Ubuntu Intrepid 64

A few features impressed me right “out of the box”:

• the IDE is well designed I think:
  • straightforward: only the necessary elements are displayed: run/stop buttons and the usual saving ones
  • elegant with nice shapes and colors (even the syntactic highlighting matches the colors from the rest of the GUI)
  • the documentation is easily accessible by right-clicking on a keyword¹
• the packaging has been made carefully, though it’s probably been made easier with the use of Java and an open source license, some stuff is really meaningful to me:
  • it installed without a glitch on my Ubuntu64
  • the IDE offers an export function that make it possible to turn a simple script in a standalone application (to do some demos, and/or to put it on the web)
  • there are a lot of sample scripts available that are really helpful to find out about the library’s various features and the way to use them.

I haven’t looked at the scriting language in detail, yet, but from what I saw in the sample scripts and also from the good reputation of the library on the net, I guess I should not be deceived.

1. I’d certainly like to put this in my MathBench project [↩]

I guess this time of the year will bring us much more stuff of this kind, but well… whatever the time of the year it’s still a good time to point at it (and a cheap way to compensate the other crappy posts :) )

The girl effect: as if Muhammad Yunus had fallen asleep on his keyboard, and we saw his thoughts as a slideshow… (via PresentationZen it’s also interesting from a design point of view)

Christmas is getting closer and here is already a kind initative from some french comics writters: mon beau sapin[en].

The more people goes to look at the nice drawings over there, the more money a French telecom company will give for poor children to get some gifts.

Why not…