Hi, and welcome back on my blog. Following the progressive migration from epot.org to jepoirrier.net, you landed on the new address for my blog: http://www.jepoirrier.net/blog ( new RSS feed here). The migration process was easy, thanks to the WordPress eXtended RSS that contains posts, pages, comments, custom fields, categories, and tags. But there are two things left I wanted to keep: existing users and images which links are hard-coded in various posts. ...
Diwali, the Indian Festival of Lights, is under way in India. But if you live in Belgium, there will be at least three occasions to celebrate! In Antwerpen, first, on October 29th, morning. Then in Leuven, on November 1st evening, organised by the association of Indian students in Leuven. Finally in Ghent, on November 3rd evening, organised by the Indo-Belgian Association of Ghent. Edit on November 1st: Bharatiya Samaj is also organising Diwali in Bruxelles on November 8th. ...
(… at least for large documents) Two week-ends ago, I spend a whole day trying to apply a consistent style to a thesis. I spent hours trying to be obeyed by a word processor because it would systematically change the style of some element, somewhere in the 100-or-so pages. Including figures was also a nightmare: we had to keep an eye on the (limited) memory of the computer (otherwise we got unexpected screen freeze, a lot of noise from the hard disk (paging), etc). Generating a bibliography was also another daunting task, even with the use of a dedicated reference manager … ...
Everything is in the title. All the boxes and other furniture are all right (their owner too). Now my journeys to work will be much shorter and I’ll be able to resume my previous evening activities :-)
Despite the fact I have smokers amongst my friends, I couldn’t resist to rant a little bit about smokers (“terrorism” is currently a buzzword in Belgium and in the world, so I put it in the title). While some smokers I know understand that " One’s freedom stops where others’ freedom starts", I am about to think that many of the smokers are still thinking they are the only ones on this planet and, if one dares to complaint, they will grumble, act as if they are victim of some sort of segregation or, worse, retaliate. ...
A small post to report three very interesting restaurants in Germany. The first one is in Berlin, on Potsdamer Platz: Ristorante Essenza ( website). It’s a very stylish and very classy Italian restaurant. The decor is very sober, the ceiling is very high and I really liked the rugged wall with small cases for different wine bottles. The (English-speaking) service is impeccable and waiters are very tactful. But we don’t enter a restaurant only to enjoy the place … Food in Ristorante Essenza is also delicious, pizzas are served in good proportions and sea food is really nicely cooked. I didn’t have the opportunity to taste their wines (by choice; but they looked all very fine on the menu). Finally, icing on the cake, prices are really, really affordable for this advanced standing (Italian restaurants in Belgium will have many lessons to take in order to beat that standard). ...
Conforming to the current trend ;-) I’m wishing you, reader of this blog, a very happy new year 2008! A lot of things will happen in 2008 and I hope to be able to write more often on this blog (no, it’s not a new year’s resolution).
Diwali in a major Indian festival known as the “Festival of Lights”. As usual, ISAL is inviting you to its annual Diwali celebration party. It will take place on November 10th, 2007 in Leuven and everyone is welcome. More details here.
In the Free Software Movement, we believe computer users should have the freedom to change and redistribute the software that they use. The “free” in free software refers to freedom: it means users have the freedom to run, modify and redistribute the software. Free software contributes to human knowledge, while non-free software does not. Universities should therefore encourage free software for the sake of advancing human knowledge, just as they should encourage scientists and other scholars to publish their work. ...
Things are better now: Nandini is back, ankle is better (not 100% though), parents-in-law moved into their new home and all the family is fine :-)