Surmenage.

 

La réalité de la situation dans laquelle je me retrouve m’apparaît d’autant plus clairement que j’ai eu l’occasion de faire le point à tête reposé lors de mon déplacement en Italie. Trop de missions à gérer en même temps, trop de projets parallèles, trop de blogs…

J’arrive à un point de rupture où il faut que je fasse des choix pour reprioriser mon temps de travail. Ma conclusion étant bien évidement que je dois donner la priorité à mes clients pour pouvoir finir dans de bonnes conditions les missions sur lesquelles je me suis engagé.

Je décrète donc une pause de quelques semaines dans mon activité de publication, elle concerne l’ensemble de mes blogs ainsi que mon flux Twitter. J’espère reprendre début janvier quand j’y verrais plus clair.

Durant cette période je ne répondrais pas non plus aux toujours très nombreuses demandes de conseils, de recherche de prestataires “bon, pas cher et dispo de suite“, de rencontres “pour discuter dans un cadre informel” (=gratuit) et de demandes d’interviews (journalistes et étudiants). Disons que cette période de repos sera bien plus productive si je fais une rupture bien nette.

Bonne fin d’année à tous et à bientôt.

Facebook Connect est désormais ouvert aux entreprises, permettant ainsi à tout développeur d’intégrer la plateforme Facebook au sein de son propre site donner ainsi la possibilité aux utilisateurs de: connecter leur compte Facebook à leurs informations sur le site, deretrouver leurs amis et de partager informations & actions sur le site avec leurs contacts au sein du réseau social (grâce notamment au news feed)

Par exemple, CitySearch, le city guide et annuaire local, qui a déjà intégré Facebook Connect, permet à ses membres de se loguer pour partager leurs avis et laisser des commentaires sur des endroits qu’ils ont visité et par la suite de diffuser ces actions automatiquement sur leurs newsfeed au sein du réseau social.

Plus besoin de vous inscrire sur CitySearch (si vous faites partie des 130 millions de membres de FB) et le site bénéficie ainsi de la très forte visibilité que les utilisateurs lui donnent en streamant leurs flux d’activité avec leurs contacts !

Facebook a signé des partenariats pour ce lancement avec +100 sites majeurs comme CBS, CNET, CNN, Vimeo et même My.BarackObama.com. et d’après Facebook, les premiers tests sont assez concluants (+50% de hausse au niveau de l’engagement/intéractions)

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I currently updated my iphone to the 2.2 FW using pwnage. I was playing around with my iphone and noticed that I was on the edge network for quite a while. When I checked the usage, I noticed that I accumulated about 29 mb of data surfing on the EDGE network. I freaked out because I heard stories of how high these service providers charge for 1 mb. My service provider currently is FIDO.

My question is, is there anyway to shut off the EDGE network so that my Iphone will inhibit my ability to automatically connect to EDGE. I strictly want to use WI-FI only.

via MacNN:

Electronics company Samsung has announced the latest addition to its line of CMOS image sensors, the S5K4AW, a 1/4-inch 1.2-Megapixel HD system-on-chip (SoC) unit. The embedded component is designed for notebook or desktop computers, with a focus on video capture for conferencing, web-based video sharing, or biometrics and security functions. The company claims that the sensor supports 720P HD vid...


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h4But ever so quietly/h4 pThe government's proposals to increase data sharing between departments will be buried in the Coroners and Justice Bill - which is expected to be presented to the House of Commons today..../p

psmallNick Farrell a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/"the Inquirer/a, Friday 5 December 2008. 07:44:00/small/ppi He is a Zune user /i/ppAPPLE FANBOYS are in a hysterical lather over the news that president elect Barak Obama used a Zune instead of one of Steve Job's approved fruit-themed toys. The US's first techie president was seen using a Zune at the gym by hack Neal Santos who duly reported it in his.../pimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.theinquirer.net/c/554/f/7127/s/2809e40/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Apple fanboys revolt over Obama rumourlink=http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/12/05/apple-fanboys-revolt-obama" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Apple fanboys revolt over Obama rumourlink=http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/12/05/apple-fanboys-revolt-obama" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/25853604012/u/89/f/7127/c/554/s/41983552/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/25853604012/u/89/f/7127/c/554/s/41983552/a2.img" border="0"//a

Photograph by Kim Dow

Scott Wade of San Marcos, Texas, thought he could do better than write "Wash Me" on the backside of a dusty car. He started drawing caricatures. His father was a cartoonist of sorts and had taught him to draw funny faces. It was Wade's idea to make a dirty car window his canvas.

"For the last 20 years living on a dirt road," he says, "there's always dirt on my car."

With the sun baking it, the dirt takes about two weeks to form a stable work surface. Wade began, like anyone else, by using his finger, and then tried popsicle sticks. To introduce shading, he decided to use brushes. Over time he developed a range of techniques, which included using plants and rubber paint-shaper tools.

Wade particularly likes the dirt of central Texas, where crushed limestone mixed with clay serves as a road base.

"It makes the perfect dirt," he says. "It's very light-colored and the contrast is great against the dark shadow inside the car."

As he got more requests to create his Dirty Car he realized that he had to figure out how to dust up a car himself. Now, he can prepare a car in minutes using a light coating of oil and pyro-lite, a less toxic alternative to fuller's earth.

At the Austin Maker Faire in 2007 (& 2008), Wade dusted up his Toyota and created Monsters from the Movies, featuring the Phantom of the Opera, Dracula, Frankenstein, and the Wolfman. The next day he painted a tribute to Willie Nelson that included Waylon Jennings. "After a good rain," he says, "it appears to wash off, but in a couple days it comes back in a ghostly form."

Recently, he was asked to draw Biff Henderson for the David Letterman show. In addition to portraits, he enjoys dusting up the old masters. "I have this grandiose idea of parking cars all the way up the ramp of the Guggenheim Museum and painting in dirt reproductions of the pieces that are on the wall next to it."

>> Dirty Car Art: dirtycarart.com

From the column Made on Earth - MAKE 14, page 23 - Dale Dougherty.

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pAustralia’s dance rock powerhouses, a href="http://www.myspace.com/cutcopy" target="_blank"Cut Copy/a, got high on DFA’s disco and Ableton Live. /p pbWho was the worst artist of 2008?/b/p pThe Ting Tings are shit apparently. But I haven't heard them./p pbWhat was the best music trend of 2008?/b/p pThe return of disco and Balearic. I think everyone has gotten tired ears from the saturation of distorted electro over the last couple of years. Finally we get to dance together instead of making a mosh pit and spitting beer everywhere./p pa href="http://www.xlr8r.com/features/2008/12/best-2008-cut-copy"read more/a/p

Australia's driest state buys in water amid fears it will not have enough to meet its needs next year.

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The final obstacle to Cambodia's Khmer Rouge trials is expected to be lifted with a decision on charges against a former prison chief.

The final obstacle to Cambodia's Khmer Rouge trials is expected to be lifted with a decision on charges against a former prison chief.

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