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Introduction to Rust, a presentation.
For the past three years, I have been learning and using Rust for my day-to-day development at work. I was tasked to migrate an existing set of of code to a more stable, production-ready stage. Before coming to the project, I was using Go đč as my main language and was pretty happy about it.
But I will admit, Rust đŠ, being born out of Mozilla for Firefox, was scratching an itch for quite some time, and I made like two half-hearted tries at learning it, but each time the syntax was making my eyes bleed. I finally decided to bite the bullet and⊠wow it clicked on this third attempt.
âŠOld pencil and paper cryptosystems.
As you may have seen from my site, I have long been interested in old pencil and paper cryptosystems, even before getting hooked on computers. Over the years, I have re-implemented a few of them in various languages:
âŠ2021 in books
Preamble
Yes, we are 2026 and this is the 2021 edition of the year in books. Still working on catching up.
2021 was as bad as âpromisedâ, with me off-work for 3 months for depression, and I was in part-time medical leave for the whole year. So not a lot of reading, despite the 43 I read, because I included some comfort re-reads like Yoko Tsuno.
Nevertheless, here it, as usual a mix of fiction and non-fiction, new and old authors and series. Please forgive me if the comments are shorter than usual, these were read like 6 years agoâŠ
Our friends at Goodreads have done some nicely presented stats here and this article will go in more details than just stats :)
To the books!
âŠ2020 in books
Preamble
Yes, we are 2026 and this is the 2020 edition of the year in books. Yes, Iâm awfully late. Let me put it on Covid, lockdown which triggered a new, longer and harder depression and a really bad year.
Nevertheless, here it, as usual a mix of fiction and non-fiction, new and old authors and series. Some comics too. Please forgive me if the comments are shorter than usual, these were read like 6 years agoâŠ
Our friends at Goodreads have done some nicely presented stats here and this article will go in more details than just stats :)
To the books!
âŠThe migration to Zola is done!
Preamble
After like 5 years of no updates, due to, guess what, pandemic, depression and some other stuff, I have finally migrated my blog to Zola.
âŠ2019 in books
Preambule
As always, a mix of re-reading books I like and new authors & series and some disappointments as well, nothing is perfectâŠ
I did not achieve the 2019 Goodreads contest this time, partly because this has been a bad year work-wise (no I wonât give any details, please donât ask) and I went another way to compensate for this, I started being more serious about playing World of Tanks so it took most of my time. Still read a decent number of books but I felt I didnât have enough energy to give to books, WoT is easier on my mind in these times. I did not write any blog posts either as you can see apart from these ones.
Our friends at Goodreads have done some nicely presented stats here and this article will go in more details than just stats :)
To the books!
âŠ2018 in books (LONG)
Preambule
Once again, I was too shy and blew away my challenge of 42 with reading⊠100 ! This was an exceptional year for reading. Not that I mind though but I shall try next year to be more precise⊠:)
Our friends at Goodreads have done some nicely presented stats here and this article will go in more details than just stats :)
As always, a mix of re-reading books I like and new authors & series and some disappointements as well, nothing is perfect⊠This article is fairly long of course, due to the much higher number of books :)
To the books!
âŠGolang API wrapper for the SSLabs API
Preambule
I have now completed my API Wrapper series with this new one for the SSLLabs API, currently at v3. It is the perfect complement to the Cryptcheck) API and the Mozilla Observatory one I published earlier.
Welcome to the Golang API wrapper, now at version 0.10.0 (and using Semantic Versioning to ensure compatibility) and available on Github there.
âŠMTA-STS or the worst of everythingâŠ
Preambule
This is a rant. You are warned. Expect strong language. There be Dragons. You can still get away.
I have been protecting my personal
DNS zone with
DNSSEC for quite some time, it was not difficult, I used the âDNSSEC in 6 minutesâ presentation a few years ago and it worked. I have changed the way I manage my zones mainly because Letâs Encrypt happened in my
TLS certificates workflow but still use DNSSEC. It is fine.
âŠGolang API wrapper for the Mozilla Observatory
Preambule
Like I did for the cryptcheck.fr API in the previous article), please welcome the API wrapper for the Mozilla Observatory API. The Mozilla Observatory is a site which include many tests for websites including TLS (SSLLabs & Cryptcheck) and HTTP-related ones (XSS protection, X-Frame, Content Security Policy and many others).
My Golang API wrapper, now at version 1.0.0 (and using Semantic Versioning to ensure compatibility) is available on Github there.
âŠGolang API wrapper for cryptcheck.fr
Preambule
Many of you know the SSLLabs site. Built by Qualys, Inc., it enables anyone to test various
TLS -related parameters for given website running on port 443 (the default for TLS). But did you know there is also the cryptcheck.fr one? Formerly known as Imirhil, it allow not only for https websites to be tested but also
SMTP ,
IMAP ,
SSH and general TLS (using a different port like a few API do) ones.
Both are integrated in the Mozilla Observatory which also include more tests such as HTTP headers and whether a given site is pre-loaded in browsers (
HSTS ).
âŠAvoir de bonnes rĂ©solutions, c'est important
Préambule
Cet article est nĂ© du constat que plein de gens, pour plein de bonnes raisons, ne savent pas vraiment comment fonctionne la rĂ©solution des noms et adresses IP sur les Ă©quipements. Du coup, lâannonce de Cloudflare sur 1.1.1.1 (et dans une certaine mesure celle plus ancienne de Quad9) fait se poser plein de questions sur les performances et la gestion de la vie privĂ©e sur ces aspects.
Jâessaie donc â comme sur Twitter dĂ©but avril â dâexpliquer du mieux possible tout ça. Comme dâhabitude, le diable est dans les dĂ©tails et si lâoffre Cloudflare est intĂ©ressante, il ne faut pas faire les choses Ă moitiĂ©.
âŠDe la cryptographie dans l'Histoire - Ă©pisode 3xa0: Midway
WWIIÂ : Le tournant de la guerre dans le Pacifique
Jâen ai un peu parlĂ© dans le premier article de cette sĂ©rie, celui consacrĂ© Ă la mort de lâAmiral Yamamoto. La bataille de
Midway , qui se passe peu de temps aprĂšs la bataille de la
Mer de Corail en mai 1942, marque la fin de la suprĂ©matie japonaise et lâarrĂȘt des conquĂȘtes. Câest aussi lâaboutissement dâannĂ©es dâefforts conjuguĂ©s entre AmĂ©ricains et Britanniques dans le domaine cryptographique pour casser les codes statĂ©giques japonais, notamment le
JN-25 .
âŠDe la cryptographie dans l'Histoire - Ă©pisode 2xa0: Dreyfus
LâAffaire Dreyfus et le plus fameux tĂ©lĂ©gramme de la Belle Ă©poque
Comment la cryptographie a permis dâinnocenter le principal accusĂ© de lâaffaire Dreyfus
Lâaffaire Dreyfus restera comme la plus connue des histoires dâespionnage de la Belle Ă©poque, moins pour les aspects liĂ©s Ă la cryptographie quâĂ ceux liĂ©s Ă lâantisĂ©mitisme dâune partie de la population.
Lâaffaire Ă©branlera la RĂ©publique au travers de la chute du gouvernement Dupuy et le « Jâaccuse ! » de Zola.
âŠDe la cryptographie dans l'Histoire - Ă©pisode 1xa0: Yamamoto
Préambule
Storify est mort, vive le blog !
Cet article et le suivant ont Ă©tĂ© publiĂ© sous forme de fil de tweets, lui-mĂȘme regroupĂ© par feu storify.com en Tweet story. Pour faciliter lâexploration via des moteurs de recherche, je les re-publie sous forme de billet.
âŠ2017 in books
Preambule
Hopefully I have broken the bad luck series I have been in the past two years; not only I managed to read all the books I planned to, I even manage to more or less explode my challenge with 65 books out of 35 \o/. What happened? Better work conditions with my new position and a new house might just have been what I needed so I could find more time for readingâŠ
Our friends at Goodreads have done some nicely presented stats here and this article will go in more details than just stats :)
As always, a mix of re-reading books I like and new authors & series and some disappointements as well, nothing is perfectâŠ
To the books!
âŠripe-atlas is now usable...
Background
A long time ago, I got a RIPE Atlas probe from a friend of mine â who does not know StĂ©phane Bortzmeyer?. For those who donât know, these probes creates a big friendly botnet that enables all users â including you, whether you have one or not â to create âmeasurementsâ on the global Internet.
Measurements are used today to (guess what) measure things like DNS queries, network latencies and more. Having a probe enables you to participate by submitting your own network data. The more probes there are, the better. It has been frequently used on the past to find out about DNS censorship like here, here or here.
How does it work? The probes have a set of builtin measurements that get sent regularely to the RIPE servers and there is an API available to make queries out of these probes. There is of course an official tool available but it is in Python. While I could just use it, I do not like Python.
Various tools are available in different languages as well here.
As a Golang fan, Iâve tried to use these and was never satisfied. Either the CLI sucks or the tool had too many dependencies or something else. So you can guess, I had to write one myself. That was also an excuse to play a bit more with Go as a language :)
And today, I released version 0.21 of my so called ripe-atlas tool. After (way too many) commits, changes and test-by-errors, it is now usable.
âŠNew mfsbsd tutorial out for FreeBSD 11.x
Preambule
You may remember these articles I posted a while ago in the âhowtosâ category on my website. I had two of them on my ZFS-on-root setup, one on FreeBSD 8.2 for a local machine and one for a remotely managed server on FreeBSD 9.2.
The most important one was the latter as I moved all my services on dedicated servers hosted in datacentres (all managed by Online).
My most heavily used machine at Online is getting old now by todayâs standards and, to stay within the scope of the aforementioned articles, lacking the cryptographic hardware extensions in its CPU (an Intel Xeon L3426 â as you can see, old :)).
While I was just running my web & mail site out of it, I do not really need blazing fast disks (or Iâd have taken SSD) but still, now that Iâm sharing stuff with the Transmission P2P client and building my own set of FreeBSD packages for the host and its jails with Poudriere, the bandwidth limitation is taking its toll (35 MB/s without the
AES-NI instructions vs 150 MB/s).
I may also running out of disks space (ahem), the disks are 90% filledâŠ
âŠ2016 in books
Preambule
Well, if I thought (cf. the previous article) that 2015 was bad for reading, well, 2016 clearly beat 2015 by a long shot :(
I planned reading a bit more than 2015 (goal was 48) and I managed⊠30. A freaking disaster. I was mostly unable to read during the first half of 2016, too many issues at work and in my personal life.
See for yourself: the 2016 challenge
âŠLast day at BSDCan 2016 - conference
(followup on previous article)
The last day of BSDCan is always special: all talks start at 10AM instead of the usual 9AM to account for the preceding night, generally filled with beer and food for some reasons :) It is also when the famous auction is taking place. During the closing session, Dan will auction a few items and the money given to the Ottawa Mission charity. He does that also with PGcon, the equivalent of BSDCan for Postgresql.
But for now, the talks!
âŠThird day at BSDCan 2016 conference
(followup on previous article)
Dan officially opened the conference as usual, under supervision by Groff of course, now a regular attendee of all conferences :)

Second day at BSDCan 2016 devsummit
Second day of the devsummit at BSDCan. One very important session on the morning, the one about what was finally put into upcoming 11-RELEASE and what we want to have (or at least try to) for release 12.0. See below.
This is a followup on yesterdayâs post
First day at BSDCan 2016 devsummit
Letâs begin this new series on BSDCan 2016!
As usual, we will have two days of both tutorials and FreeBSD devsummit, a regular event in almost all BSD-related conferences now.

La maison Sanki Ă Boulogne
Suite un dĂ©placement un peu inattendu du cĂŽtĂ© de Boulogne-Billancourt â un besoin de convoyer mon ainĂ©e au spectacle dâune de ses copines de classe â je suis retournĂ© dans un des meilleurs restaurants japonais de la rĂ©gion parisienne dâoĂč lâoccasion de ce nouveau billet :)
Résumé
Lieu : 38, avenue Edouard Vaillant
Téléphone : +33 (0)1 46 08 38 38
Site web : http://restaurant.sanki.free.fr/
Ouvert tous les jours sauf dimanche midi et lundi â 12h00 Ă 14h30 et 19h00 Ă 21h45
Type : Cuisine japonaise de qualité, carte trÚs bien fournie.
Prix : compter un minimum de 40-50 âŹ/personne voire beaucoup plus.
Note : 4/5 à cause des prix
Une brĂšve histoire... 3e partie ! (encore plus LONG)
La suite
AprĂšs cette [trop] longue interruption de nos Ă©missions, voici enfin la 3Ăšme partie de cette [toujours] brĂšve histoire de mon informatique (en toute modestie hein), consacrĂ©e cette fois-ci Ă mon arrivĂ©e dans le monde joyeux de lâinformatique libre et des
UNIX libres en particulier.
Ă lire aprĂšs la premiĂšre partie et la seconde bien entendu :)
JâespĂšre cher/chĂšre lecteur/lectrice que tu voudras bien mâexcuser pour ce dĂ©lai par trop long Ă mon goĂ»t dans la rĂ©daction de cette 3Ăšme partie ; 2015 fut Ă plein dâĂ©gard une annĂ©e difficile pour moi⊠Comme dâhabitude, toute erreur est mienne et ma mĂ©moire pouvant dĂ©faillir, toute correction ou commentaire sera le bienvenu.
NOTE: la plupart des liens WikipĂ©dia de cet article sont vers les versions françaises desdits articles ; je conseille nĂ©anmoins si vous le pouvez dâaller consulter les versions anglaises, beaucoup plus complĂštes Ă cet Ă©gard que les françaises, malheureusement .
âŠUne Tesla, sinon rien
Vous vous souvenez du test rapide dâune voiture Ă©lectrique Tesla dont jâavais parlĂ© en avril 2015 ? (cf cet article). Ben comment dire⊠je lâai achetĂ©e. Je suis bien dâaccord que câĂ©tait quasiment Ă©crit dans lâarticle prĂ©cĂ©dent, aprĂšs, il y a toujours les dĂ©tails qui viennent en travers dâun tel projet (genre financement, comment recharger, quel contrat ERDF, etc.)
Le rĂ©sultat est lĂ , please welcome Ălainn (beautĂ© - beautiful en gaĂ©lique) :)
2015 in books
Yet another (tiny) proof 2015 was one of the worst in recent years, I did not manage to read all the 42 books I put on my 2015 Reading Challenge on Goodreads. I listed at least 42 books like last year and am at 38. 4 books short, mainly because I could not read for the last month more or less. Feeling depressed after the November attacks in Paris and death of friends didnât help.
2015 is, like 2014, a mix between re-reading books I love (Roger Zelazny again!) and new books and authors.
âŠEuroBSDCon 2015 conference in Stockholm - day 2
Last post in my series about EuroBSDCon 2015 â See previous one.
Day 2
I know most of his stuff but listening to Kirk McKusick is always funny as he has a lot of stories to tell about all these days a Berkeley :) â This time it was about the history of the
BSD Fast File System .
EuroBSDCon 2015 conference in Stockholm â Day 1
This is a followup post on the one about the EuroBSDCon FreeBSD devsummit that you can find here.
This conference is dedicated to the late Paul Schenkeveld who passed away a the beginning of the year. Paul was President of the EuroBSDCon Foundation and a friend to us all.
FreeBSD devsummit in Stockholm â EuroBSDCon 2015
âŠand we are back for a new BSD-related conference :)
Now we are talking about the FreeBSD devsummit, taking place two days before the EuroBSDCon conference. This year, it is in Stockholm, Sweden.
Like last year in Sofia, Bulgaria, it is a smaller conference and devsummit compared to BSDCan. The list of topics is available on the FreeBSD wiki.
Our hosts this year are the company called Init, big thanks to them!
âŠDu livre papier...
Câest une discussion qui revient rĂ©guliĂšrement dans ma timeline Twitter : opposition entre livre papier et livre Ă©lectronique (ebook).
Il ressort de pratiquement toutes ces discussions que chacun se devrait dâĂȘtre dans un camp ou dans lâautre, comme si une position intermĂ©diaire nâĂ©tait absolument pas possible. Câest le ressenti que jâai Ă chaque fois⊠et Ă chaque fois, ça me dĂ©sole.
Peut-ĂȘtre vais-je dĂ©cevoir certains de mes amiâąeâąs et/ou followers dans ce billet ; jâespĂšre que non mais sinon, tant pis, ce billet est dans la catĂ©gorie « opinion » :)
âŠLast day at BSDCan 2015 - conference
(followup on previous article)
Talks
This is the last day of the conference today and I started it with Ed Schoutenâs talk on CloudABI. CloudABI is there to add some more secure and testable features to UNIX systems. Something to look into in the future.
âŠThird day at BSDCan 2015 - conference
(followup on previous article)
Introduction
BSDCan is having more than 280 people this year and is having an additional track which means 33% more talks \o/
Dan officially opened the conference as usual after playing a bit with the video feed on his phone and we got both of us on the screen :)
âŠSecond day at BSDCan 2015 - devsummit
Second day of the devsummit at BSDCan. Two working groups for me (Doc WG and LibXO) and some other things. See below. This is a followup on yesterdayâs post
âŠFirst day at BSDCan 2015 - devsummit
After the series of articles I did for EuroBSDcon here, letâs begin this new series on BSDCan 2015!
As usual, we will have two days of both tutorials and FreeBSD devsummit, a regular event in almost all BSD-related conferences now.
âŠMĂ©tadonnĂ©es ! Mais oĂč ça ?
Ce titre à lui tout seul sous forme de jeu de mot reflĂšte la situation actuelle nĂ©e du vote de la loi dite du Renseignement le mardi 5 mai 2015. Pendant toute la discussion sur le projet de loi Ă lâAssemblĂ©e nationale, une ambigĂŒitĂ© a Ă©tĂ© entretenue de haut vol â par les auteurs de la loi, pas le ministre ; lui ne fait sans doute pas la diffĂ©rence â sur le sujet des mĂ©tadonnĂ©es.
En gros, la notion que nous autres informaticiens avons de ces mĂ©tadonnĂ©es nâest pas la mĂȘme que celle des services de renseignement.
Cette ambigĂŒitĂ© est trĂšs importante et permet au ministre de ne probablement pas [trop] mentir quand il dĂ©clare ne pas vouloir faire de
DPI dans les fameuses boßtes noires .
âŠBref j'ai essayĂ© une Tesla.

MAJ : la suite de cet article est ici si vous voulez savoir la suiteâŠ
Préambule
Je nâaime pas les voitures. Si si câest vrai. Jâaime bien conduire, câest pratique, câest sympa, on peut avoir de la musique, etc. mais la partie qui consiste Ă lire des revues de voitures, aller au salon, me passionner pour une Porsche, une Audi ou autre Ferrari, franchement bof.
Jâai achetĂ© en 2011 une Toyota Prius parce que je voulais une voiture hybride, consommant moins que ma voiture prĂ©cĂ©dente (une Renault Scenic II) et surtout polluant moins (89g/km de COâ) tout en restant pratique pour transporter deux enfants et les bagages.
âŠOn dĂ©place les serveurs ailleurs...
Comme prĂ©vu, le projet de loi sur le renseignement (voir mon billet prĂ©cĂ©dent ici) a Ă©tĂ© discutĂ© Ă lâAssemblĂ©e nationale le 16 avril 2015 avec notamment le vote â public cette fois-ci contrairement aux amendements â de lâarticle 2 sur les boĂźtes noires, Ă©quipements espions devant ĂȘtre implĂ©mentĂ©s chez les principaux opĂ©rateurs Internet et hĂ©bergeurs .
Le vote solennel nâaura lieu que le 5 mai mais il est fort probable que comme pour les amendements, il soit votĂ© par la majoritĂ© socialiste (on espĂšre que certains dĂ©putĂ©s feront sĂ©cession mais il y a peu dâespoir). Passage au SĂ©nat aprĂšs.
âŠLettre ouverte Ă nos gouvernants, passĂ©s et prĂ©sents
Ă Messieurs Valls, Cazeneuve et Hollande, ainsi quâĂ leurs prĂ©dĂ©cesseursâŠ
Bonjour, vous nâavez pas honte ?
âŠMaison Wada Ă Paris
Il y a deux semaines jâai eu lâoccasion de dĂ©couvrir non pas un mais deux restaurants japonais, lâun prĂšs de lâArc de Tromphe et lâautre aux Buttes-Chaumont. voici le premier, la maison Wada.
Résumé
Lieu : 19 rue de lâArc de Triomphe, Paris, XVIIe arr.
Téléphone : +33 (1) 44 09 79 19
Métro : Argentine ou Ternes
Type : Cuisine japonaise classique, de qualité
Prix : compter un minimum de 40-50 âŹ/personne voire beaucoup plus.
Note : 3.5/5 à cause des prix
Détail important : il est ouvert le lundi ce qui est rare (et nous sommes lundi).
âŠThe Imitation Game
This is a Followup on the previous article
Just saw the Imitation Game yesterday night, in VOSTÂ in Paris.
Mild spoilers below, do not read if you intend to watch it :)
âŠAlan Turing, Bletchley Park and the Enigma
Alan Turing
Everybody (maybe even the dog ) is speaking of the 2014 movie called âThe Imitation Gameâ with Benjamin Cumberbatch starring as
Alan Turing but how many really know him?
For many people, Alan Turing is one of the fathers of the modern computer (along with
John Von Neumann ) and rightfully so. What they need to know and what the movie is trying to do (I have yet to see it) is to show how influential he was.
Une brÚve histoire⊠la suite (LONG)
De retour
Nous voici de retour dans cette brĂšve (haha) histoire de mon informatique qui, ainsi que je le disait dans lâarticle prĂ©cĂ©dent, nâa pas vocation Ă autre chose que vous faire partager mon parcours dans ces temps de naissance de lâinformatique . Au sommaire, de la communication avec les
BBS et [enfin ?] de lâUNIX et du libre :)
Lâaccouchement nâest pas facile, je dois dire que les Ă©vĂ©nements du 7 janvier mâont vraiment marquĂ© et revenir Ă cet exercice dâĂ©criture est compliquĂ©, je sollicite donc ton indulgence chĂšre-cher lectrice-lecteurâŠ
La troisiĂšme partie est enfin Ă©crite⊠câest ici pour la suite :)
âŠUne brĂšve histoire de l'informatique â Partie 1 (LONG)
(découpé en deux, euh, trois articles pour ne pas faire trop long - La suite ici plus tard)
Préambule
Avant que vous ne vous dĂ©sespĂ©riez du titre de ce billet, non, je ne vais pas vous rabĂącher une N-iĂšme redite de lâHistoire (avec un grand H) de lâinformatique. De multiples articles et livres ont prĂ©cĂ©dĂ© celui-ci â fort probablement en mieux dâailleurs. Je ne vais pas non plus comme le commence notre ami Glazou ici Ă©crire un livre sur le sujet.
Il nâa pour but que de relater mon expĂ©rience personnelle en la matiĂšre, laquelle traverse quand mĂȘme peu ou prou 34 ans de mon existence (oui, jâai passĂ© plus de temps avec un ordinateur que sans, enfance comprise). Ce nâest pas non plus, jâespĂšre, un billet sur le « ah câĂ©tait mieux avant » en mode « ancien combattant ». Quoique⊠vous jugerez :).
Ăa a Ă©tĂ© une pĂ©riode magique avec constamment des choses Ă dĂ©couvrir et Ă apprendre (une certaine dĂ©finition de la vie selon moi). Non pas que la pĂ©riode actuelle nâait pas les mĂȘmes possibilitĂ©s loin sâen faut mais on avait lâimpression de dĂ©fricher un terrain inconnu et jâĂ©tais quand mĂȘme beaucoup plus jeune et la vision de lâavenir et de son dĂ©veloppement est forcĂ©ment diffĂ©rente.
âŠUn mois avec le X-T1 (LONG + photos)
Introduction
Ăa fait un peu plus dâun mois que jâutilise le Fujifilm X-T1 comme appareil photo principal (lâiPhone 6 qui me tient lieu aussi de tĂ©lĂ©phone est toujours lĂ :)) et je dois dire que ça me fait un bien fou.
Cet appareil est tout simplement fantastique. Attention, cet article nâest pas un test en tant que tel, dâautres sây sont trĂšs bien pris pendant les mois suivant sa sortie, comme DPreview (EN) ou Focus numĂ©rique (FR) mais plus un retour dâexpĂ©rience dâun photographe amateur, nâayant pas plus de prĂ©tention que de se faire plaisir :) Enfin, cet appareil nâest pas forcĂ©ment pour tout le monde, il est cher et Ă titre personnel, vu les objectifs que jâai pris, certaines photos ne sont pas possible (animalier ou zolis navions notamment).
âŠ2014 in books (UPDATED)
2014 has been a very good year for my reading. In fact, I have not read that many books in a year for a long time and am pretty happy about it. Reading is very important to me and has been for a long time now, I remember thoroughly scrubbing the SciFi section of my townâs library in the â80 (« Fleuve Noir », « PrĂ©sence du futur »âŠ) clean of everything I havenât read :)
What made 2014 so efficient? Foremost the desire and will to read more of course but the most important thing that happened is me buying that iPad Mini Retina back in Oct, 2013. Iâve switched from physical books to ebooks a long time ago, when all my books were still in cardboard following our move from one flat to another. Maybe I will devote an article to the subject of ebooksâŠ
UPDATE: Finally got 42 books (yeah for #geek in me!) in for 2014, thanks Corwin of Amber :)
âŠLa fin d'une Ă©poqueâŠ
Je viens dâapprendre ce matin que le cabinet de consultants HSC (pour HervĂ© Schauer Consultants) venait de se faire racheter par Deloitte.
Ah pardon, il est écrit « annoncent leur rapprochement ».
Quâen termes Ă©lĂ©gants ces choses sont dites⊠Je nâaime pas vraiment le politiquement correct je dois dire.
âŠMaison Zen â Paris
Jâai dĂ©jĂ parlĂ© de la Maison Zen sur Twitter il y a quelques mois, lâayant dĂ©couvert par hasard en utilisant une application iOS qui permet de trouver des points dâintĂ©rĂȘts autour de soi, la bien nommĂ©e AroundMe. Ayant passĂ© une partie de lâaprĂšs-midi avec un copain Ă prendre des photos dans le coin, je me suis dit que câĂ©tait une bonne idĂ©e dây repasser.
Résumé
Lieu : 8 rue de lâĂ©chelle Ă Paris, 75001, Ă cĂŽtĂ© du Louvre.
Téléphone : +33 1 42 61 93 99
Type : Cuisine japonaise classique, de qualité
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Historique
Ca faisait plus dâun an que ça me travaillait et câest fait : aprĂšs plus de 8 ans dans le monde numĂ©rique Pentax avec diffĂ©rents boitiers et objectifs, jâai revendu mon matĂ©riel pour passer sur un appareil hybride.
Pourtant, je venais de renouveler mon boitier lâannĂ©e derniĂšre avec le Pentax K-3, un superbe reflex comme je les aime, qui est bien entendu compatible avec mes objectifs, achetĂ©s au fil des ans, amoureusement pour constituer une sorte de sac photo idĂ©al⊠mais lourd.
âŠIntroverti (suite)
Le sage
Jiddu Krishnamurti a dit :
Ce nâest pas un gage de bonne santeÌ que dâeÌtre bien inteÌgreÌ dans une socieÌteÌ profondeÌment malade.
La discussion sur la santĂ© (ou pas) de la sociĂ©tĂ© actuelle nâest pas le but de cet article, lequel ne fait que prolonger le prĂ©cĂ©dent sur mon introversion et fait Ă©cho Ă mes diverses ruminations sur cet Ă©tat et ses consĂ©quences depuis lâavoir publiĂ©.
âŠIntroverti
Un simple mot, mais il fait un monde de diffĂ©renceâŠ
Ăa fait longtemps que je sais ĂȘtre « introverti » (par opposition à « extraverti » bien sĂ»r) mais jâai longtemps associĂ© Ă ce mot quâune trĂšs faible partie de ma personnalitĂ©, comme ma timiditĂ© parfois maladive (pas seulement Ă lâĂ©gard des femmes), ma rĂ©serve naturelle en classe ou dans une assemblĂ©e.
IntĂ©ressant comme la simple mĂ©connaissance de soi peut gĂ©nĂ©rer tant dâinterrogations personnelles, dâincomprĂ©hension de son propre comportement dans diffĂ©rentes circonstances, allant jusquâĂ se poser des questions sur sa santĂ©.
Maintenant, presque par hasard, je sais.
âŠAgnes Obel, la magie Ă l'Ă©tat pur
GrĂące Ă Radio Paradise jâai rĂ©cemment dĂ©couvert une artiste danoise appelĂ©e Agnes Obel.
Le genre de morceau qui font dresser lâoreille, se demandant Ă qui appartient cette voix superbe, Ă©purĂ©e, soutenue par un piano subtil (instrument que jâadore). Parfois accompagnĂ©e par des accords Ă la harpe ou Ă la contrebasse, sans pour autant la masquer.
RP passe quelques morceaux, principalement dâ
Aventine , le 2Ăšme album dâAgnes Obel, pur joyau de musique du genre de ceux qui font interrompre toute activitĂ© pour se consacrer Ă lâĂ©coute.
âŠHuman behaviour
Foreword: this is not a just-for-ranting-blog but it seems News flying around these days are just ârant fodderâ :(
TL;DR: I am ashamed of being a man. Please read on if you want to help.
âŠLast day at EuroBSDCon
Last day of the EuroBSDCon 2014 conference (ok, there are only two days anyway :)) with all three tracks as yesterday, another keynote and the closing session where the next EuroBSDCon host is traditionally announced.
Like yesterday, I only chaired some talks so Iâm going to talk only about the ones I followed.
âŠEuroBSDCon Conference begins!
Very busy day today at the EuroBSDCon 2014 conference in Sofia, Bulgaria as I had to chair one entire track from morning to evening.
That means assuring the speakers are there on time, introducing each of them in a few words and managing questions after the talk is finished (while managing the time of course).
âŠSecond day in Sofia
Slightly less busy day during the second run of devsummit sessions, although the ones in the morning were pretty important for us.
âŠFirst day in Sofia
So today was the first day of the EuroBSDCOn 2014 conference, traditionally starting by two days of FreeBSD devsummit, a meeting of FreeBSD developers, talking about various topics and thinking about FreeBSDâs future.
âŠSF&F 2013 discovery: Lindsay Buroker
It is no secret that I like Science Fiction & Fantasy (my Goodreads profile shows that :)) and I like classical authors such as
Isaac Asimov and of course
J. R. R. Tolkien . Iâm not reading only these of course and my list of authors has been growing over the years.
One genre Iâve been reading into lately is
Steampunk which mix steam-powered machinery with special things such as post-apocalyptic world or magic.
âŠJ'ai mal
Jâai mal.
Je ne comprends plus ces dĂ©putĂ©s, ce pays, ces ministres et ce PrĂ©sident, pour lequel jâai pourtant votĂ© en avril 2012, voulant bouter N. Sarkozy de la place suprĂȘme, ne le supportant plus.
Oh, je nâespĂ©rais pas Ă©normĂ©ment de F. Hollande, ses annĂ©es Ă la tĂȘte du Parti socialiste nâĂ©tant pas de nature Ă rassurer mais virer Sarkozy Ă©tait lâobjectif primordial. Je mâattendais Ă un prĂ©sident aussi mou que J. Chirac lors de son deuxiĂšme mandat.
Mais je ne mâattendais pas Ă ĂA.
âŠLa Maison Kaiseki Sushi - Paris
Fort de la recommandation de Farzad qui apprécie beaucoup les vrais restaurants de sushi, je suis allé goûter à la cuisine « créative » du chef Hisayuki Takeuchi à la Maison Kaiseki.
Résumé
Lieu : 8 rue André Lefebvre à Paris, 15e, sur la rue Balard. Twitter : @MaisonKaiseki
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Hello World
Bonjour tout le monde !
Dâaucuns se souviennent que jâavais dit quâavoir un blog ne mâintĂ©ressait pas⊠Il semblerait que jâai changĂ© dâavis :)
En fait, le format du site principal nâest pas forcĂ©ment adaptĂ© Ă tous les contenus (comme les News), tout comme il ne permet pas de publier facilement un « billet » (dâhumeur ou autre :)). Dont acte.
Le contenu sera en français ou en anglais selon, la partie technique plutÎt dans le 2e pour une plus large audience.
JâespĂšre quâil vous plaira, bienvenue :)
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