Posts tagged with "work"
Thursday, 10. April 2008, 08:15:34
funny, work, w3c
Dom nous fournit une excellente explication du concept de datespace, sur IRC, suite à la question d'un de nos stagiaires:2008-04-10T07:55:05Z <seb> c'est quoi un datespace ?
2008-04-10T07:56:27Z <dom> c'est un logement qui, au lieu d'avoir une cuisine, un salon, une salle de bain, a plein de petits placards au milieu desquels tu tombe par hasard sur un pommeau de douche, une cuisinière, un coussin, etc
2008-04-10T07:56:41Z <dom> l'avantage, c'est que tu n'as jamais de problème pour ranger quelque chose de nouveau
2008-04-10T07:56:55Z <dom> l'inconvénient, c'est que tu ne sais jamais où est ton lit quand tu en as besoin
2008-04-10T07:56:59Z <dom> mais bon, on peut pas tout avoir
2008-04-10T08:00:00Z <seb> hum ok
2008-04-10T08:01:17Z <dom> (moins métaphoriquement, c'est une méthode d'organisation d'un site web utilisée sur le site du W3C où les ressources sont organisées dans des répertoires du type /2008/04/ )
2008-04-10T08:03:54Z <seb> aaaaaaaaaaah
Thursday, 13. September 2007, 09:30:12
odd, travel, life, work
...
"Gipsy, give me your tears!"
On my way back to the pharmacy just now, a gipsy talked to me. Dude, that was so weird!
I *must* blag about it ;)
She said I would travel abroad, but not just now. Well, I didn't say, but the taxi picks me up in 10 minutes to go to the airport; I'm going to Boston for a few days, for work.
She told me to remember the number "19" because it is going to be important in the upcoming months.
She asked me if the initials M J F meant anything to me and I said no. But she said I should keep them in mind because they will matter soon.
Then she gave me a white plastic "stone" from the Saintes-Marie de la Mer, where she comes from). It's ugly. She said people must treat gipsies right (and she meant "generously"), so I gave her 5 euros. She must have thought she was in potentially good compagny, so she went on and read my palm.
She said I was lucky and other stuff and that I had an excellent memory (wrong!)
She asked me if I had undergone surgery in my life and I said no, and she said I never would. Amen.
That's when she said it usually costs EUR 20 to 30 for palm reading. She was _that_ close to add "otherwise the predictions don't work", I'm sure.
I didn't give her any more money but I'll slip the plastic thingie in my bag, just in case ;)
Update: I just thought I'd mention that the flight attendant, seeing I was pregnent, moved me from a seat at row 11 (exit) to row... 19!
No update on MJF.
Wednesday, 21. February 2007, 21:11:21
musings, mac, Boston MA, work
I swear I knew what I was going to blog about, mere moments ago. I was only missing the title. I knew I had several things to list. /me scratches head, looks confused. Damn, I should make a better use of twitter.
I could blog about ADD, mind you. Note the absence of H; "Hyperactivity" seems preposterous as far as I'm concerned.
Now, where was I?...
I wanted to share the irony of this Temperature Monitor program that I use and that seems to simply stop when the temperature exceeds a certain threshold (in this case, it was 83C/181F for the CPU A Temperature Diode). How dumb is that?
Also, I note that I have yet to hear the fans of my MacBook Pro.
There was something else...
Oh well, it probably wasn't that important. My minibreak time is up anyway.
Saturday, 17. February 2007, 15:36:03
Las Vegas NV, Boston MA, work, San Jose CA
...
I was in London, headed to Los Angeles to hop on a flight to San Jose, California. It was a 19 hour trip, with 15 more to go. I stayed in California less than two days. I walked a bit (as a rule, I walk to the meeting venue), I scribed 1.5 day of meeting (a little less than 1200 lines in the IRC logs, a little more than 13000 words), I happily met with a friend and his wife that I hadn't seen in a while.
The next batch of flights didn't go so uneventfully. The flight from San Jose to Las Vegas was delayed by almost an hour. A shame since I had a shortish connection to make it to the Boston flight. So we landed mere minutes after the Las Vegas - Boston flight had left. The good thing was that I was were my suitcase was. I spent an hour in the America West customer assistance line, wondering where my legendary luck was and reflecting on how worse it could have been without the said luck. A very helpful lady booked me on a Delta flight to Boston. I had 5 hours to wait.
I walked from the airport to Las Vegas, at dusk, camera in hand. It was interesting. There aren't a lot of people on their own in Las Vegas. (How mundane is that, for a comment?) I purchased a few gifts that I ended up misplacing on the next day, unfortunately. I took a few photos that turned out blurry; somehow the selector of my camera was on Manual Focus... I had a gourmet dinner at Wendy's. And I walked back to the airport. It took 45 minutes. Only to find out that the 10:10 pm flight was delayed... "Est. 12:45 am". Oh well...
I walked through security at 12:15 am. I was selected for further screening. They patted me down (and didn't find the lighter in my left back pocket). They opened my bags, my computer, ran their sample pads on my jacket, on my shoes, detected explosives, ran some more sample pads on my shoes, x-rayed them again and eventually let me go. I was late by that time. I took the monorail to the gates, ran to gate D41 and boarded at the last minute. It would have been pretty ironic to miss that one. I arrived in Boston 9 hours after schedule. And my suitcase had made it.
I'm back in Boston for 3 months. Yay!
Saturday, 20. January 2007, 11:08:25
mac, opera, work
Normally they don't ask to install a weekly on top of a final version, but if I dare do so this time it will help they get more correct data, making sure that they continue to make a better browser for ME.
[adapted from yesterday's Opera Desktop Team's blog.]
The idea is that while some people tell us about their wishes and concerns in the blog and forums, thousands of people download the weeklies without giving direct feedback. By using a build with feature reporting, they will also contribute to improving the product for all of us.
I have submitted wishes and concerns in the blog in the past, but there are so many (irrelevant) comments each time the Desktop Team release a build or a final, that my wishes and concerns must have drowned in the noise. I can't be bothered to comment what rank I am downloading their build. And I expect they are bothered that people do.
I welcome very much this experimental build.
Tuesday, 16. January 2007, 12:00:16
mac, RDF, work
I transferred my user account from Precious (a PowerPC mac) on Phoenix (an Intel mac), and when calling RDFPic (which needs Java), I got the following error:
java[1820] *** -[NSBundle load]: Error loading code /Library/InputManagers/SIMBL/SIMBL.bundle/Contents/MacOS/SIMBL for bundle /Library/InputManagers/SIMBL/SIMBL.bundle, error code 2 (link edit error code 0, error number 0 ())
The error didn't prevent my photo RDFization, but I was bothered that there was the error in the first place.
I had the java version "1.5.0_06" (of maybe August 2005?) and found out on ACD that there had been a release on 12jan2007 for 1.5.0_07. I upgraded, but I got the SIMBL error anyway when calling RDFPic.
I located SIMBL stuff on my machine, but was none the wiser. I googled SIMBL.
SIMBL (Smart InputManager Bundle Loader) - pronounced like "symbol" or "cymbal" allows you to build hacks for Cocoa applications and apply the code selectively based on an application's unique identifier.
I have no idea how SIMBL got installed on the Precious in the first place. But I installed the universal binary. And when I call RDFPic, not only does it keep working but also I don't get the error message anymore.
If you look in your console.log (Applications/Utiliites/Console.app), and search "simbl", you'll see that a lot of applications use it and that a lot of errors are written.
Friday, 8. December 2006, 04:49:32
work, travel, Boston MA
One week left and then I travel back to France. Living in Boston is fun. I drank more caramel macchiatos and cafe' mochas than I hoped I would, I didn't have any pretzel and I didn't post as many photos to flickr as I had hoped I would. I had very good clam chowders and got to try the Stata Center ping pong table just 2 days ago.
I really had a *wonderful* time, and I wish I can return soon.
When I think there is just one week left, I feel like diving on the bed, burying my face in a pillow, and pretend that this truth does not exist. This reference is from the movie "The Science of Sleep". The main character breaks into his neighbour's apartment and she shows up so unexpectedly that he just dives on her bed, hides his face in her pillow and asks her to pretend she doesn't see him.
Tuesday, 21. November 2006, 05:03:38
travel, work, Boston MA
Happy thanksgiving, folks!
I'm off for a few days to experience my first Thanksgiving celebration. And I have to earn it by waking up at 5 am tomorrow, taking a flight, and being driven (and maybe drive) for about 3 hours.
Then I'll travel again, for work. Next Saturday. Through Chicago and to Tokyo. I've been there already 3 years ago, it doesn't seem so long ago, though.
And the week after I'm back in Boston for 10 days.
I'd like it if time just stopped, in fact. Right now would be good, since I'm going to bed in a few minutes ;)
Wednesday, 15. November 2006, 22:46:06
mac, work, Boston MA
All is well that ends well.
Or rather, so far so good.
I picked up the newspaper this morning for the T ride and next to the sudoku game is the horoscope. Here's what I read:
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Lady Luck is working on your behalf in repayment of your latest efforts.
And I told Amy, "Amy! DHL are to deliver the Precious back to me today. That horoscope means the Precious will be fixed for good, now!"
She said something like, "yes, dear, yes..."
and she nodded and smiled (gracious and kind friend I have here!). So I added, "it's written in the newspaper and it's the truth. You'll see."
I'm making that up because I don't remember what we said. There was a lot of joking around this. Anyway. DHL just delivered the Precious and it boots!
It has a spanking new logic board (I haven't seen it for myself, mind you) and they removed a bad part (non-apple-branded RAM that my sysadmin purchased and installed a long while ago, and that they didn't return).
I don't believe in horoscopes, by the way.
Why? Simply because the odds that DHL delivered my Precious to all the Leos of the world are pretty pretty slim.
Thursday, 9. November 2006, 03:43:09
mac, work, Boston MA
Here is the latest update on the Precious.
Bottom line:
Precious is still pretty broken. I'm wicked frustrated. I raised my voice on the phone, nearly lost my temper. And I'm really glad I purchased a macbook pro.
Summary:
- 02-Nov-2006: Service Requested.
- 04-Nov-2006: Repair completed.
- 04-Nov-2006: Product shipped via DHL + link to track the shipment.
- 06-Nov-2006: DHL tracking page claims delivery was attempted at 9:40 am and intructs to call them.
- 07-Nov-2006: DHL had no delivery address (4tf?) so I gave it to them.
- 07-Nov-2006: DHL delivered my computer in the late afternoon.
What they did:
655-1112A DA TOSHIBA PLUTO 4200RPM 60GB HD KA201B
632-0282 FLX CKT ASSY,HDD,PB15"
What I did:
- Eagerly pressed the start button and crossed fingers and toes. Grey screen. Spinning gear. So far so good. And hmpf, the spinning gear stopped spinning :(
- Quickly checked again the documents that were in the box, found nothing suspicious, cringed when reading "We're pleased we could repair your Apple product."
- Called 800-APL-CARE
- Gave the woman on the phone all the case numbers I've been given since 18 October, the computer serial number, my name, the 2 repair references (dispatch numbers). She couldn't find *any* history. This computer suddenly didn't exist anymore. The case numbers were not in the system. That was insane. I was looking at the numerous notes I had taken over the last few weeks and I was thinking "there's no way this happened only in my mind. I'm not "that" crazy".
- She said that since the computer had been purchased in France I needed to call the French Apple Care hotline. I told her there was no way I was calling any other number but the one I had been calling for the past *three* weeks.
- Amy appeared in my office, I put the phone on speaker phone.
- Amy scribbled on a napkin something like "request to speak to a superior", which I did.
- The woman put me on hold for a little bit, then asked me the office address, then typed like mad and said nothing till she put me through to a "product specialist"
- The product specialist made me repair the (brand new) disk (no repair needed), then made me boot the Precious in safe mode. We tested the airport card. Then the video card. All seemed to be worky.
- He then mentioned that the current situation seemed to be similar to last week's. I asked him how he knew that and he said it was in the system. I said "oh, you found a history for this computer, eventually".
- Then he made me restart. Woohoo! Precious restarted! They had installed Tiger. I created a user account. Then we restarted again. All good.
- He said he couldn't explain what had been the issue and that he hoped it wouldn't occur again. He said that if it occurs again, I should boot in safe mode and restart. He gave me a 3rd case number. He also gave me his e-mail address and he gave me his phone extension and explained how to contact him directly by phone.
- I put the Precious to sleep and prayed it would wake up.
- Once at home, it didn't wake up :(
- And after I turned it off, I got the now familiar kernel panic window.
- I restarted in safe mode and tried to restart normally. More kernel panic window.
- I e-mailed Edward, the Powerbook product specialist.
He replied today and instructed me to start in safe mode, open the "Untitled" disk, go in the Library, find the Preferences folder and drag onto the desktop the folder named "SystemConfiguration", and then, restart. He added to let him know if that worked so he could advise of the next steps. He finished with "If that doesn't work, let me know anyway.".
That didn't work. After restarting I soon got the kernel panic screen. Edward will call me at the office tomorrow afternoon.
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