Intelligent Agents are backs

Ray Ozzie: Dawn of a new day

[…] We’re moving toward a world of 1) cloud-based continuous services that connect us all and do our bidding, and 2) appliance-like connected devices enabling us to interact with those cloud-based services.

Continuous services are websites and cloud-based agents that we can rely on for more and more of what we do. On the back end, they possess attributes enabled by our newfound world of cloud computing: They’re always-available and are capable of unbounded scale. They’re constantly assimilating & analyzing data from both our real and online worlds. They’re constantly being refined & improved based on what works, and what doesn’t. By bringing us all together in new ways, they constantly reshape the social fabric underlying our society, organizations and lives. From news & entertainment, to transportation, to commerce, to customer service, we and our businesses and governments are being transformed by this new world of services that we rely on to operate flawlessly, 7×24, behind the scenes. […]

Follow-up: Don Dodge gives its own vision

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Ballot

Ballot

A beautiful piece of swiss semi-direct democracy…

1) A group of people wants to change the law and gather enough signature (>100’000) to go into votation process.
2) The government disagree with this new proposal and propose an alternative.

As a citizen, I need to answer to the two questions: “Do I accept Proposal 1 ?”, “Do I accept Proposal 2 ?” and since they are exclusive, can not be applied at the same time, I need to answer to the question which one I prefer if both proposal pass.
Note that to pass a proposal (ie. an “initiative”) needs to be accepted by a majority of people, and a mojority of “cantons”…

Easy uh ?

Ascenseur

Parlant franglais plus souvent qu’à mon tour je ne suis probablement pas le mieux placé pour me plaindre, mais ne pourrait-on pas traduire ce genre de signalisation en français au moins ?

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-11-12

  • RT @mbi: Nice try, Summer. Better luck next year. +1 #
  • Tweeter for Android is awesome!! Wouah… #
  • So, android user, what is the best app for synching music over wifi from my NAS ? ideally from a playlist and/or a folder ? #

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Easyjet… loin d’être facile!

corse_easyjetPas cher mais pas si facile ni si rapide. En moins de 6 mois je viens de vivre deux expériences pour le moins déplaisantes avec Easyjet qui ont transformé des vols 45 minutes, resp. 1 heure, en voyage de 24 heures et qui rappellent malheureusement que le “low-cost” à un prix!

22.12.2009: Vol 1385; Genève – Nice 19h55. Décollage de Genève avec 1h30 de retard, survol de Nice (plusieurs boucles). Annonce du commandant de bord que les vents et la pluie nous empêche d’atterir, retour à Genève! Arrivé vers minuit, prise en charge CATASTROPHIQUE (je ne m’étalerai pas la dessus) par les services de l’aéroport pour être finalement hébergé dans un hôtel vers 2 heures du matin. Grand seigneur Easyjet nous proposait de nous replacer dans un vol 4 jours plus tard!! Idéal pour passer le réveillon dans sa famille!
Par chance j’ai pu trouver une alternative, certes plus cher mais raisonable étant donnée les circonstances, qui nous faisaient décoller le lendemain mais cela a été la croix et la bannière pour se faire rembourser les billets par Easyjet.

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Pancake

Pancake

Home made pancake (recipe) with home made jam (thanks mom!) that’s all what it takes to have a good start of the day and to get ready for Federer game :-)

(at the same time I am playing with Flickr iPhone app)