This was my non-technical blog about being an independent Internet entrepreneur in the 21st century.
Personal productivity, mobility, business, marketing, web tools and some more…
I am “retired” now ;)
Every blogger gets to do that once in a lifetime (ahem, I mean "at least"): I searched for my firstname in search engines... Surprisingly or not (depending on how much you know about web indexing techniques), I am famous, very very famous! #1…...
Okay now, sometimes I really feel stuck in south of France when I need to be working with people in Paris! Phone + email was cool until my phone bills rocketed in the past few months... :-/ Recently, I decided, with a couple of business partners, to…...
Ever wondered how it comes you now receive at least five of these urgent requests for assistance a day? Check it all out at this pretty complete site: http://www.scamorama.com/ Make sure you read at least one of those hilarious stories where the…
Joel on Software in The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing: "I've discovered that understanding pointers in C is not a skill, it's an aptitude." Actually, the whole article contains lots of very interesting thoughts. A few examples: "Our goal is to hire…...
Sometimes I fear that Microsoft stopping the development of IE 6 is a lot worse than we think... It looks more and more like they have a master plan beyond terminating the free browser program... (we don't care, we have open source browsers, right?)...…...
Karl Fogel has it pretty much clear in Chapter 1 of his book: "Open Source Development with CVS - 2ND EDITION": Imagine a science-fiction device that allows any sort of food or physical object to be infinitely duplicated. If somebody then tried to…...
Eric Sink has this very interesting piece about how he witnessed the beggining of the browser wars, working at Spyglass (the company that licensed the original IE rendering engine to Miscrosoft). About Spyglass: "We considered ourselves to be the arms…...
Two quotes from PHPeverywhere: "Perhaps the problem is that the computer industry is maturing, so all the cool corners where you could do your own thing in peace are disappearing slowly..." -John Lim: "Gamma Radiation from Microsoft turns open source…...
Following up on wether or not to unsubscribe from spam, Cédric [site gone] adds some clarifications: I am talking about the particular case of a spam email that defeated my filters and ended up in my Inbox. This is the one I want to get rid of. I don't…...
Cédric posted some interesting thoughts about whether or not to unsubscribe from spam. Cédric advocates that unsubscribing has become less a trap than it used to be, basically because spammers are better off collecting new masses of addresses than…...