Deviant Abstraction

Sarko interviewed by a US journalist… I love the question about Cecilia.

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And yes it is funny.

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“You have not logged into MySpace since January 1, 2007. That makes us sad!

You’re also holding a very valuable piece of MySpace real estate, which is the username/URL you chose. That makes MySpace users sad! Why? Because you’ve got a URL someone may want, and you’re not really using it!

Since it doesn’t look like you’re an active user on this account, we will be resetting your username/URL so that someone else can use it.

To prevent this from happening, simply login to MySpace before Oct 31, 2007.

NOTE: We are only resetting the URLs of inactive accounts. We will *not* delete your account. We are simply trying to free up the username/URLs for people who actually want to use them. Thanks!”

How many of these emails did they send?

” François Chérèque : La politique de l’emploi est ciblée sur le coût du travail avec des allégements de charges sur les bas salaires, d’où une concentration des bas salaires énorme. On a augmenté le nombre des smicards (17% des salariés) et on a 50% des salariés qui gagnent moins de 1480 euros par mois net. Les entreprises n’ont pas intérêt à former leurs salariés, car s’ils les forment, ils doivent les payer plus. Le processus bloque l’économie.”

Je me sens une légitimité pour aborder cette question puisque je viens de la formation continue en cours du soir (et après tout c’est un blog donc pourquoi ai-je besoin d’une légitimité pour aborder un sujet). Au cours de mon parcours au CNAM et en entreprise (je travaillais à mi-temps durant cette période), je confirme ce diagnostic de M. Chérèque (dont je ne partages pas d’habitude les analyses). C’est exactement ce que j’ai vu. Par exemple, mes deux anciens employeurs ont fait beaucoup pour me dissuader de terminer mes études. Ma solution? Je travaille à l’étranger…

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This is a really good interview from two key people from ZFS.

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“We’re approaching a transition point in computing (…). It isn’t just the Internet or search or access to movies and music that matter, but all of those presented in a technological context that Just Plain Works. The importance of all our digital stuff along with our fear of losing it will shift us more and more toward central backup and storage. And once you have your life sitting on some company’s server, are you going to move it on a whim? No, and that means there will be a LOT of money to be made providing these services. Storage and automated backup and probably some form of netboot with a fresh OS image every time is the future of computing whether we’re talking about desktops or notebooks or mobile phones.”

This is an informed opinion and I agree with him (and I am not the only one: Fred?).

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Ponoko is a design community. It seems to crash my browser so I could not try it out more. The idea is really cool though.

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As I think you all know I have moved from France to Austria. I kept my French phone line since I have this phone number since more than 10 years. I gave my new address to my operator, SFR, so they can send me the bill… In the process, the address turns out not to be correct (either my fault or their)….

Finding out about this (the bill probably bounced), SFR simply suppressed my phone line and billed me 100 euros. In parallel, I keep receiving on my email address their commercials and my correct address is in the white page.

No one at this company had the idea of sending me an email. I found this out by calling them since I was worried not to receive any bill from them (I called them one month after the bill was due).

Conclusion: never ever use SFR… The way they have managed me is simply unacceptable. I am a 10 years customer spending a lot of money at them every month. I have now brought my business to Orange.

How does look like a “user generated” Web 2.0? For the answer, click on the link below.

This is simply a real, smart and cool idea.

I will try it and let you know.

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