Renaming Software [en]

Quick, run over and see Davezilla renaming software.
I absolutely love “ScreamWeaver”… hehe!

Blog Stuff [en]

Going through the bookmarks I had collected when I was staying at my brother’s, I pulled out
non-negative blogging for you. What is it about?

First of all, if you are not very familiar with the “blogging” subject, read Rebecca Blood’s excellent essay on weblog history. You might also want to read Deconstructing “You’ve Got Blog” (a comment on Rebecca Mead’s article) which puts notes the “star-system” and “incestuous nature” of blogging.

Sorry for the interruption. Dink’s take is that lots of bloggers openly criticize other bloggers. Not their opinions, but their person. Not later than yesterday, I must say I noticed something very similar to a blog-war going on not far from what I call the “waferbaby community”.

Before I had a site, I spent the major part (if not all) of my online time in chatrooms. I used to go on crusades to convince my fellow chatters to treat “online people” with as much respect and care as “offline people”. Too often, it was not the case.
People online are treated as “virtual”, denied an existence of human beings with feelings.

Positive blogging goes in exactly that direction. “Think of the person behind the webpage or the keyboard, maybe at the other end of the world.

Excess [en]

There are lots of talented people in the world. They produce good music, that I can hear on the radio, or write interesting things that I can read on the Internet.

I can access something that was produced at the other end of the world in the click of the mouse or a flick of the radio button. And that is wonderful.

But it also brings on some sense of frustration: there is too much good music for me to listen to it all. There are too many interesting sites or articles for me to visit them all.

There is too much out there for me to absorb.
Life is too short. Choices have to be made.

Writing for the Web II [en]

Thanks to Zeldman and webtype, here are a few more links on the writing for the web issues – and a bit on CSS.

Coding Section Open [en]

Much earlier than expected, here is the coding section.
The HTML tutorial isn’t ready though – expect it sometime.

Web [en]

Please stop by for some really nice reading (I mean writing) at creepsville.
You’ll also find the most dangerous list of journal links over there – enough to keep you online wayyyy too long.

Virus Zoo [en]

There! I’ve finally installed a free antivirus.

In the process (and reason for this post) I discovered their Virus Zoo.

Maeterlinck [en]

Je suis en train de préparer un séminaire de littérature française sur le Cosmos chez Maurice Maeterlinck, auteur belge du tournant du siècle.
Si l’on entend parler de lui, c’est principalement pour la première partie de son théâtre, qualifié de “symboliste”. Il a cependant produit dans la deuxième partie de sa vie toute une série d’essais “philosophiques”, dans lesquels il développe une vision de l’homme, du monde et du cosmos teintée de parapsychologie.

Ayant enfin réalisé que mes recherches à  son sujet (tant sur internet qu’à  la bibliothèque) n’aboutissaient pas puisque je m’obstinais à  écrire son nom “Maeterlink”, j’ai pu constater qu’on ne fait pas plus honneur à  ses essais on-line. Dommage.

La ressource la plus intéressante que j’ai déterrée est finalement celle de la médiathèque de la communauté française de belgique

Au début de son théâtre, Maeterlinck montre l’homme pris sous le poids de forces qui le dépassent. Une forme de “destin”, si l’on veut bien. Si le “pessimisme” qui accompagne cette vision du monde s’estompe dans la suite de son oeuvre, il en reste l’idée d’une force inconnue qui régit l’univers et les hommes, d’une unité fondamentale.
C’est cette idée qui pointe dans ses essais tardifs, en rapport avec la quatrième dimension, l’éther, l’espace-temps, la gravitation, l’infinité de l’univers et son inconnaissabilité. Elle nous ramène finalement dans la “métapsychique” et au concept d’une intelligence “commune” sous-jacente aux êtres individuels.

Tout ceci est bien entendu très approximatif… il y a encore du pain sur la planche!

Vaisselle [en]

Certes, je n’ai pas envie de faire la vaisselle maintenant.
Mais je n’en aurai pas plus envie dans dix minutes, une heure, un jour ou une semaine.

Autant la faire maintenant.