If you live in Europe and you are lucky enough to have access to Arte TV channel, you could have seen saturday evening their Thema special about the Flying Dutchman. And you could already know what made my wife laugh so much : yes, the name of the Flying Dutchman is supposed to be...<awfulsuspense/>

Vous n'avez jamais remarqué que le monde est divisé en deux ? Si, si, je vous assure. D'un côté ceux (et celles) qui peuvent discuter normalement et ceux (et celles) qui peuvent être interviewés normalement, et de l'autre ceux (et plus rarement celles) qui ne peuvent s'empêcher de dire à tout bout de champ "très concrètement" ou "très simplement", en général accompagné d'un petit geste interruptif de la main. Ce type d'attitude, qui m'a profondément horripilé ce matin alors que je regardais sur france2 l'interview d'un escroc^H^H^H^H^H^Hpoliticard, est en fait très significative de la manière dont une personne considère son entourage et ses auditeurs. Quand on me dit "très concrètement", j'ai vraiment l'impression d'entendre "puisque vous êtes de toute manière trop con pour que je vous donne une explication sérieuse, voila du pré-mâché pour hydromicrocéphale". Mais je me trompe sûrement. Très concrètement.

We loose three more Nscp France people today. Laid off. I think that before the end of the year

• only the 3 CPD guys and Internal computing will remain,
• we will be administratively rattached to AOL France (but still in CPD task force).

As said my yiddish gran"father, herring is cheaper when there's no herring available ; travel budget won"t be a problem any more if the salarial mass is reduced to zero...

I just could not resist more than 15 seconds to a so stupid guy...

<Tristan> (Tristan is our european evangelist) I am just pushing the W3C standards
<a moron Tristan tries to evangelize> We are members of the W3C
<Tristan> Oh, you are ? Just a second, I turn on the loudspeaker because I have two
         other W3C members here with me in the office
<the moron> Urgh, no, no loudspeaker !! (followed by 5 seconds of silence)

Of course, they're not members... Tristan resisted to this asshole fifteen minutes ! Very impressive.

Today, 07:30am. Every morning, the world's on fire in front of me. I just can't remove my eyes from that view, and drink my coffee in front of the window, patiently waiting for a wiser sky.

I have thrown my subscription to Moscow's theaters to the trash, I have just heard that air conditioning is not reliable there