Looking at my blog, I feel some need (or the urge) to have a new fresh design… This one is getting old and I think a clean design for 2010 could be a quickstart.
If you have ideas, inspiration sites or suggestions feel free to comment. In the meantime, I will start to look for a great new design compliant with my actual mood 
I guess by now everyone on the (geek) planet has heard about the Apple (r)evolution of the tablet pc.
Tablet pc have been around for quite some time, but no one really make it a big success. Maybe because of the weight, the aspect, the transportation problem (too big for a jean’s pocket), aspect ratio, look & feel, ergnomy, …
In these challenges, Apple is usually quite good at making WOW effect products. And somewhat yesterday the whole mac planet was waiting for such a big bang as when the iPhone came out. And yeah, Apple did a fine job, but not a great one as expected… This iPad is finally a nice giant iPhone without GPS and camera but including iWork (and iBooks).
This morning I have a bittersweet feeling that I can pinpoint to some missing or disappointing elements:
All these factors, let me really think that the iPad is finally an iDraft. A firts version not fully polished as we were used to by Apple and Steve.
EDIT: I just find out the mashable iPad missings article. I should add SD cards and HDMI in my list…
The Apple iPad
The Wavyx MacPad 
Here is my ideal iPad: a nice thin 16×9 device. You’ll notice the front webcam is upside, but I’m not it wouldn’t be better on the left side to ease video conferences with multiple contacts. On the back, I put 2 webcams. I know it’s too much but I was thinking about some Augmented Reality application that could better capture the 3D environment with 2 webcams. So let’s say it’s an optional feature
By the way, it has a GPS and it’s of course Mac OS based, so more a MacPad or MacTouch.
PS: I still searching through the specs, to find how much RAM is bundled but I hope it’s enough to have bigger application with less memory problems as on iPhone.
Here is a video I really like. You can see air traffic around the globe and in some way, this feels really organic to me.
Planes are like ants trying to find food and auto-organizing themselves (not necessarily with the shortest path). This recall me of the Ant colony optimization for solving TSP problem.
Here are some resources for the ACO optimization for TSP problems: http://www.scribd.com/doc/3689188/Ant-Colony-TSP-Optimization, http://www.ugosweb.com/Documents/jacs.aspx or http://www.idsia.ch/~luca/acs-bio97.pdf.
Long time, no post !
Last months I wasn’t really active (at all), despite my good 2009 resolutions
But isn’t that a rule ? To NOT follow your new year’s resolutions…
Anyway, I have a pretty good reason: I was getting married !
So now things are slowing a bit, I would like to share a few “wedding resources” as a first come back post.
These are mainly DIY shops for decoration, invitation cards, … (I know this does not sounds so geek, but in some case it’s kinda like soldering :
IMHO, you should definitely check AVA and creacorner as a starting point.
Here are a couple of extra links: http://www.parcleopold.com/, http://www.artegra.be/, http://www.cordslafourmi.com/, http://www.nias.be/, http://pagesdor.truvo.be/Papeteries_-_D%C3%A9t./Papeterie_d%27Ixelles/Ixelles/fr_BE_YP_FREE_2659166_0000_1665077_6470_00000, http://www.creascrap.be/
So I was trying to send a proper multi-recipient email from my Google Apps Gmail. All is configured to allow google to handle the mail (all the MX entries). I can succesfully send in and out mail “to:” my other addresses. And yes it’s really easy for people who want to have their own emails.
But here comes the BUG: on a google apps domain (not gmail), if you try to send an email with to: me@mydomain.com and bcc: allmyfriends@domains.com, the bcc adresses do not receive the mail !
I tried many times. From and to my usual gmail account, all is working perfectly. But using google apps gmail version (tried with 2 differente domains), I still cannot send email using the to/bcc mails to protect privacy (see gmail help).
I just filled the gmail support form, we’ll see how quickly google fixes that. (let’s hope I didn’t miss a small config step;)
UPDATE: still no answer from google, but it is not a bug, it’s a feature The mail only arrived 18 hours later ! (of course I was not so patient and I sent it through my own mail server)
My third 2009 resolution can be summarized as a “simple” word: FOCUS ! Well not so simple after all… I must admit I have a tendency to follow to many ideas at the same time. This was true in 2008, even if I manage to keep my number of active ongoing projects below 3 (of course these are extra-work projects). Anyway, looking back the last year, I (or we) did not ship or fully release a public version of these projects. Finally, one may wonder what’s the point of having projects?
Don’t get me wrong! I’m still passionate about what I undertake. But in the end, I think it would be better if I choose one path instead of following multiple tracks going in different directions. On the other hand, I’m quite convinced that sometimes you may find synergies around different ideas. But let’s face it, it requires more energy and efforts, and it definitely does not take away the risk of dispersion.
Eventually, to be entirely truthful, this third resolution will probably be the first I will not follow… Anyway, that’s worth a try, moreover since I made it public! Speaking of which, I’m really interested in your insights about this “focus dilemma”!
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