Peace ambassador Originally uploaded by Ahmed Zahid. Good morning, It was pleasing to see this wonderful photo from a flickr contact at such an early time. It's putting me in such a good mood for the rest of the day :-) Thank you Ahmed Zahid. Have a nice day everyone

Everybody knows that a picture is worth a thousand words, but this guy is pushing the concept to a whole new dimension: his life. Also it's been awhile since last time I've posted pie charts :-) Life expressed as a series of pie-charts: "Cory Doctorow: Craig Robinson has drawn

The big tech news yesterday was of course the joint press conference in London by Apple and EMI. Below links cover that stunning news: BBC News Another BBC News report The Guardian (subscription required) xml.com blog Daring Fireball Tech News World Barrapunto (en español) Ratiatum en français) MSNBC NewsWeek

I'm mainly a perl programmer, but last week I've decided to explore the python language. To keep my motivation high I've decided to use python for something useful to me: download every day my favorite web comic into the Pictures directory of my home directory on Mac OS X and

At the beginning of the month Digg reported on an article on how to make your own biodiesel. It's quite interesting, especially since you can get waste vegetable oil from restaurants for free. It's a pity the yield is not as great as producing biodiesel from algae, but then again

Two alternative ways to navigate my flickr photos thanks to netomer's flickr inspector: Tag Cloud Set Cloud

hand weaved Originally uploaded by Sam Lamb. Hello everyone, Last night I had a sudden and welcome increase of happy feeling when I saw this photo in my flickr contact's stream. It's so good that I'm drawn in the scenery and that brought back good memories. Thank you Sam.

Were they so desperate to sell their stuff? Sony gives 46" HDTV to everyone in PlayStation 3 line in London!: "PlayStation 3 launched in Europe just a short while ago but some got a bigger surprise than others. At the console's official launch event in Virgin Megastores, Oxford

Sugar that looks like ants: "Mark Frauenfelder: Geisha Asobi posted a bunch of photos of sugar that looks like ants to her Flickr account. Link " (Via Boing Boing.)

I found myself browsing Wikipedia a few times this week: First I got interested in toilet technology: what is a porta-potti and the principles of chemical toilets and composting toilets Then I became fascinated by bio-diesel which led to a site warning people of the environment risk of some bio-diesel

London Originally uploaded by Moxette. This amazing shot has been posted in the West London flickr group this week by fellow flickerer and west londoner Moxette. She said the dogs were waiting outside a cafe on Portobello Road for their owner.

The other day I was discussing with software testing expert Antony Marcano about the issues encountered in introducing Test driven development in a team. Especially we were talking about resistance from the developers in introducing automated acceptance testing. They see them as redundant: they implemented the feature and they know

A couple of years ago I played with something called Camel Bones. It is a Cocoa framework with a perl module an Xcode template. It allow a programmer to use perl to write desktop Cocoa application for Mac OSX It was fun, although the application built are not the fastest

eclipse - second series Originally uploaded by Nyx. If like me, you missed the lunar eclipse this weekend, there are plenty of people who were awake and with a camera and a Flickr account! Here is a nice series taken in the North of France by one Flickr contact.

Grand Perspective Originally uploaded by Rija 2.0. Years (2 or 3?) ago, I was always struggling for space on my hard drive. Although today I haven't go this problem on my desktop anymore. It still an issue on the laptops. One of the tool that I found helpful at

For those of us who are concerned about their energy footprint either for the sake of the planet or just because of the electricity bill at the end of the month (or both), this is an interesting article. The fact that the Wii easily won is almost incidental to me.

Paddington Originally uploaded by crouchy_crouch. Superb work of light and shadows on this photo that has been posted on the West London flickr group

I was looking for the Macintosh Human Interface Guideline on Amazon and found this gem (Newton Interface Guidelines) Though it's not available anymore, I'd be curious to know how valid it is when developing applications for nowadays PDAs. Maybe one of the reason the iPhone will be closed to third

Interesting article about software design methodology: design for one or two typical users, don't try to satisfy all users. It makes sense to me it's a better to make one user happy than discontent everyone. The trick I suppose is to correctly profile this one typical user. I think it

Be scared

It's amazing what people can do with a wiimote.

That's such a brilliant idea:  a AA battery cell with integrated USB connector so you can recharge it directly on a computer. According to the IHT, the company behind the idea plans to implement the technology on AAA cells and 9V batteries The End User: Batteries that travel - International

If you can't wait for it to be released in your region, this is considered by MobileWhack as an alternative: Mavizen MyBlu :-)

On Tattum's blog, there are a collection of video clips filmed in Madagascar as part of the Other Places project by Tsuyoshi Tokunaga. The aim of the project is to portray through video the city life in various places (so far visited: Sri Lanka, East Turkestan, Madagascar). I was born

All the fuss around the iPhone has probably triggered a wave of nostalgia about the Apple device that created the PDA market. from the digg summary: _"We were all wowed by the iPhone last week, but back in 1993 Apple introduced a revolutionary product called Newton that defined the