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Best of Palin

I saw these videos several times during the campaign, with always mixed feelings, you want to laugh, but, at the same it's so unbelievable and scary. Now that we know that the bad Disney movie was just a scenario, it's time to watch them again ... but just for fun !

In what respect Charlie

Foreign policy

It's gonna be all about job creations

What newspapers or magazines did you read ?

Is Africa a country ? (bonus, this one is recent)

SFR.fr Désolé, c'est fermé, repassez demain

"Cher client, ce service est ouvert de 06h00 à 22h00, du lundi au dimanche. Nous vous invitons à renouveller ultérieurement votre demande. "

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12h00 - 14h00, pause déjeuner ?

GoogleBot "General HTTP error"

According to Google Webmaster Tools, GoogleBot had a problem crawling my blog on September 6th. It's described as a "General HTTP error", no HTTP error code, and the URLs are removed from the Google index, which is the most annoying obviously.

I sure my blog was online this day, so, I googled a little, and it looks like I'm not alone in this case, same problem here and here, also starting on September 6th.

Posting this note will ping the Google API, lets see if it helps GoogleBog to find its way to my blog again :-)

Update-17-09: It looks like Google is working on the problem.
Update-25-09: Still not fixed for me.
Update-15-10: Finally fixed, my Google traffic is slowly getting back.

Still using Vienna

7777 news to read in my aggregator, I said to myself, if you blog that you really have nothing else to blog, ... and that's true :-)

I should clean my feed list or spend more time reading them, but yes, I'm still using Vienna, (since this note). Not much activity on this open source project these days, is it dead ? Should I switch to something else ?

L'Alpe d'Huez

Two years ago, I blogged about Le Tour de France, and l'Alpe d'Huez. Since then, every year I know which day is this stage just by looking at my blog stats :-)

All Lego sets in history

I just watched this video on Gizmodo. It makes me remember the hours and hours, I spent playing with Legos. I remember I had the big starship at 5, and the castle, and the fireman car, and ....

Que de souvenirs !

Color Profiles in Firefox 3.0

Thanks to Joi Ito, I just learnt that FF3 now supports Color Profiles, very interesting reading, and you should also follow the links in the Joi's post, especially the comments on flickr .

I made a test with one of my photo:

Left to right: FF3 with color profiles, FF3 without color profiles (default), Safari.
This is correct, the one in the middle looks desaturated.

Protected by TypePad AntiSpam

Now, the only time I spend on spam fighting, is looking at this nice stat, it's addictive :-) 
Congrats to all my coworkers at Six Apart who are working on this project !

Dedibox vers OVH Kimsufi

Sur Dedibox depuis plus d'un an, mais avec des experiences plutôt mauvaises, j'ai profité de la nouvelle offre Kimsufi d'OVH pour switcher.

Ma Dedibox avait tendance à freezer sans raison, et la seule réponse du support a été "changer de dedibox", ce que j'ai fait, espérant même avoir le droit aux nouvelles Dedibox (Celeron), mais non, on m'a refiler une v1 à processeur Via, priorité aux nouveaux clients sans doute.

Me voilà donc sur la nouvelle offre Kimsufi d'OVH. Les premières impressions sont bonnes. Niveau performances du serveur, passer d'un Via à un Celeron, ça n'a rien à voir. Le réseau semble aussi bien meilleur, bon ping depuis Paris, bon ping depuis San Francisco.

Un point négatif quand même, le kernel OVH installé en standard est monolythique (pas de modules) et s'intègre mal avec la distrib, notament quand on veut installer des packages qui requièrent des modules particuliers. L'idéal serait un kernel OVH modulaire et packagé pour chaque distrib. Heureusement on peut tenter sans risque d'installer un autre noyau, en cas d'erreur, il y a toujours net-boot.

Find me elsewhere

... Yes, elsewhere, but at the same time on this blog, ... aggregated. Thanks to the great Action Streams plugin written by Mark, you'll find all my actions (on Digg, Twitter, Ma.gnolia, Vox, Del.icio.us, ...) on this page.