My-Life

Happy Diwali 2011 … from my office! :) By the way, I recently found some Maggi Masala Spice noodles in Brussels. I’m feeling like a student now ;)

Today is the Indian Independence Day. Photo credit: Boy holding Indian flag by myself on Flickr (CC-by-sa)

Although its presence in Belgium is more discreet than China or other European countries (for obvious reasons in the latter case), India has always something to show in Belgium. I decided to put some (most of?) events related to India in Belgium in a calendar so everyone can be aware of them. Here you are: [googleapps domain=“www” dir=“calendar/embed” query=“height=350&wkst=2&hl=en_GB&bgcolor=%23FFFFFF&src=09d2i9naunu5fpkm6sdeqsikvs%40group.calendar.google.com&color=%238D6F47&ctz=Europe%2FParis” width=“500” height=“350” /] ...

The other day, I was the witness of a demonstration in Happyland! It all started with Mr. Crab who had something interesting to show: And then people started to gather around him very quickly: And he was soon surrounded by many people (moreover, Duplo’s came to the rescue): ...

I am still managing my photos based on directories named by date + event (e.g. “110515-person” contains photos from the person and taken today). I tried Shotwell, saw Picasa or iPhoto working but I was not really convinced. Maybe I like to be closer to the file structure (and it’s enough for my needs) and don’t like too much the idea of being dependent on a software and its internal database. ...

I continue in the serie of “World x Day” and for a reason still unknown even to myself, I thought today was the World Epilepsy Day (it’s in fact on March 26th, called Purple Day). But, anyway, epilepsy is “a common chronic neurological disorder characterized by seizures. […] Epilepsy is usually controlled, but cannot be cured with medication, although surgery may be considered in difficult cases.” ( Wikipedia). Out of curiosity, I was looking for mathematical models for the description of the epidemiology of epilepsy. But unfortunately, I couldn’t find anything. Probably because epilepsy is not an infectious disease for which tentative mathematical models have more predictive power (in terms of the population scale and time scale). The epidemiology of noninfectious diseases is primarily a study of risk factors associated with the chance of developing the disease. Nothing very fancy for a mathemarical model! ;-) (But if you find something, feel free to share! Thanks in advance!) ...

Happy Vietnamese New Year!

Here is yet another interesting video from Prof. Hans Rosling :-) From the video: “Believe me, there is nothing boring about statistics, especially not today when we can make the data seen”. For the rest, watch the video … http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/oOOmqHzkkOo?fs=1&hl=en_US Btw, it is also featuring David McCandless whose work was already shown here before. Re- :-)

A few years ago (2006!), I wished Merry Christmas with a 12 days of Christmas from Boymongoose. This year, I wish you some wonderful holidays (under the snow for those in Northern Europe) and a Merry Christmas with again a 12 days of Christmas song. This time, it’s from Straight No Chaser ;-) Enjoy! http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/2Fe11OlMiz8?fs=1&hl=en_US

No issue, installation even smoother than the installation of Fedora 13 on the same machine, last month.