Thursday, March 27 2008
By Odile on Thursday, March 27 2008, 12:06 - computing
I first heard about darcs in a conference by Julius Chroboczek, at the Ecole Normale Supérieure of Cachan (Paris).
Julius is a math guy, and a good speaker, and he had been using darcs for years already, so I thought ok this is not vaporware ..
Darcs is a distributed versioning system like git, but easier to use.
I have read every comparison page I could find on distributed versioning software, and darcs still stands as a very good choice, even the best one, for people who mention it and actually tried it out. And as we@OFSET were needing such a tool for the association docs, we decided to give darcs a try.
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Saturday, March 22 2008
By Odile on Saturday, March 22 2008, 11:56 - computing
Friday, March 21 2008
By Odile on Friday, March 21 2008, 10:17 - music
On Wednesday I sung, among others, in a theatre not far from home, and the performance was recorded by my companion.
I'm not very satisfied with my own singing, I even tend to prefer my first Poulenc, but this is also very beautiful music (Debussy, Mozart) and maybe I render some of its beauty.
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Thursday, March 6 2008
By Odile on Thursday, March 6 2008, 17:44 - just life
Again thanks to Cory Doctorow, I got to this nice page about how to get your cables under control. Watch the small #4 video! All very useful tips
http://lifehacker.com/364054/top-10-ways-to-get-cables-under-control
By Odile on Thursday, March 6 2008, 11:22 - computing
Excellent article par Cory Doctorow, traduction de Hervé Le Crosnier.
Clair et concret, il vous explique pourquoi il ne faut pas utiliser cette expression
http://cfeditions.com/coryDoctorowIP/
By Odile on Thursday, March 6 2008, 11:18 - computing
Excellent article by Cory Doctorow. With nice comparisons it show clearly why your should not use this term
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/feb/21/intellectual.property
Thursday, February 7 2008
By Odile on Thursday, February 7 2008, 11:16 - computing
The first time I met Jacques Gélinas was at Linux Expo Durham (North Carolina) in Spring 1998, so it will soon be 10 years ago.
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Wednesday, December 5 2007
By Odile on Wednesday, December 5 2007, 09:42 - computing
As many people, I have some tricks about organizing my work.
I have to manage quite a few projects, large or small, at the same time.
So I limit myself to 2-3 big tasks for each day, and I change everyday. Not counting small things not reading nor answering mail ..
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Friday, November 30 2007
By Odile on Friday, November 30 2007, 16:33 - computing
DRBL just won the first price for category Public Sector Software at the Trophées du Libre, Soissons, France.
We are proud of you Steven, Jazz, Ceasar & all!
Wednesday, November 14 2007
By Odile on Wednesday, November 14 2007, 19:00 - just life
Vise un peu cette folle et ses souliers montants
Elle a tous les ruisseaux dans ses regards d'émail
Elle a tous les oiseaux sur son chapeau de paille
Et dans son sac à main ses rêves de vingt ans
Louis Aragon (Cri du butor, extrait)
By Odile on Wednesday, November 14 2007, 07:44 - just life
Cette recette ressemble à celle de la crème anglaise, mais elle est tout de même beaucoup plus facile à réussir. La consistance finale, une fois refroidie, est étonnamment épaisse, et le goût est irrésistible.
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Friday, September 14 2007
By Odile on Friday, September 14 2007, 20:48 - music
Finally, I have a first sound recording.
That was last Saturday, for my parents' golden Wedding anniversary. In a church in Paris, with a beautiful 19th century organ by Cavaillé-Coll.
I sang the Agnus Dei from a mass by Poulenc.
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Thursday, August 16 2007
By Odile on Thursday, August 16 2007, 09:16 - music
Shostakovitch sonata for cello and piano, by Torleif Thedéen and Roland Pöntinen.
Listen to it on http://medici-arts.tv (July the 27th), along with Fauré (so lyric and sad! such a beautiful cello sound, so warm!), Chopin (what color are your dreams, Roland?), Grieg and Ravel.
Wednesday, August 15 2007
By Odile on Wednesday, August 15 2007, 14:34 - music
Thanks to Kozlika, I have spent this last vacation day listening to some concerts at Verbier festival.
The well-know pianist Martha Argerich managed to gather a small group of top musicians and offered a splendid concert on the 28th of July. My 7 yrs old daughter loved the Scenes of Childhood (Schumann) and I must admit that was a really very very good interpretation. All the concert was very good, maybe except the Beethoven trio.
Now maybe you don't appreciate classical "lieder", but you are curious and you don't fear too much dark atmospheres, then you have to hear Thomas Quasthoff in recital, with Hélène Grimaud on Sunday 29 July. At least the Brahms. It is a wonderful experience, very true, very sensual.