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Prague, we meet again!

Sunday, October 23rd, 2011
The bridge, seen from the Petřín lookout tower

Karlův most (Charles bridge)

 

Tomorrow I will fly to Prague, going to the GStreamer Conference, then to LinuxCon Europe and ELCE.
I’m excited to go back there, after having first visited this beautiful city in my last Eurotrip.
I will give a talk at the GStreamer Conference about my work on image stabilisation, related to that balloon project we did with Ugo.
I will go there sponsored by Igalia, with my friends and colleagues Víctor, Philippe and Javi. Víctor will give a talk as well, about the integration of syslink and GStreamer.

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Eurotrip starting soon: Desktop Summit, Berlin

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

On Friday, I am going on a little Eurotrip that will lead me through Germany, France, Ireland and Czech Republic. The whole trip will last a month.

If I manage better than some american guys, I will get to Berlin on Friday afternoon for the desktop summit:

I am going there sponsored by the awesome company I work for, Igalia. Many other igalians will be there too.

Grilo will be well represented, with a short talk by Philippe on his integration work of Grilo with the Gnome Shell, and a hacking session with Juan and myself.

I will stay in Berlin until the 15th of August, to attend the GObject Introspection hackfest, where I will also be sponsored by Igalia. I should admit I don’t know much about the internals of GI yet, but I am excited to “learn by hacking” in the company of great hackers!

Then I will continue my Eurotrip, but that is another story.

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Rock ‘n Roll!

Monday, April 14th, 2008

I’m going to the Electric Festival with Olivier. Gonna kick arses, check out the line-up! For people who aren’t friends with flash, that includes:

  • Rage Against The Machine
  • Metallica
  • Iggy & the Stooges
  • Machine Head
  • Cavalera Conspiracy
  • Serj Tankian
  • Eths
  • Queends of the Stone Age
  • ETHS

Which are all bands I’m really excited to see live. I either don’t know or don’t care about the others (well, I will be quite happy to see Offspring perform good old stuff like “Come out and play”), but there probably will be stuff I don’t know that I will like. I’m kinda taking my revenge for these two years spent in England without going to the download festival, finally :)

That might also be an occasion to visit a bit Madrid, but I don’t know if I will have much time for that :/.

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View from my desk

Monday, October 15th, 2007

Here is what I can see through the window on my left. And I’ve only thought of taking a picture of that today!
view from my desk

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My little eurotrip

Sunday, July 1st, 2007

I am now back in Cambridge, and on week-end, so I have the time to make a post on my holidays in Barcelona and Trondheim. See here for the itinerary.
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Woohoo, FOSDEM!

Monday, February 26th, 2007

I’m writing these lines in the train, back from Bruxelles where I was this week-end, attending the Free and Open Source Developers European Meeting (FOSDEM). I ‘ve had a really great time there, it was hard to choose between the available conferences, but I managed to view quite a few interesting ones, including but not limited to the ones by Keith Packard, H D Moore, Michael Meeks, Miguel de Icaza (well, missed the beginning), Jim Blandy and Frederico Quintero (that guy’s talk was really good, watch the video once it’s on the FOSDEM website).

Misc notes:

  • When Keith Packard was searching for a generic name for N800-like devices, someone proposed “Personal Bedside Porn Viewer”. A nice discussion on how many free hands you need to operate it followed :)
  • Metasploit 3.0 (not out yet, still in beta) looks really great, the demo was impressive, these guys just seem to have implemented *everything* in it
  • Idiot: “C’est pas Linux ça, c’est Coca Cola” Miguel de Icaza: “Qu’est-ce que c’est Coca-Cola ?”
  • I really should try gdb tracepoints
  • I really should find some time to hunt memory leaks or do stuff like that to help the OLPC Project. I think it’s the most important libre software project since GNU
  • Belgian beers really have nothing to do with what you generally can find in England
  • I should do some more kernel hacking, Jim Blandy made me want to. I hated when I made that kernel school project and lost *nights* debugging quick’n dirty code with printk()s. Things look much easier with gdb kernel tracepoints (and, well, that project is just sexy)
  • I don’t like certifications, but the OSSTMM methodology looks really clever; security done the scientific way :)
  • Brussels is a really cool town.
  • Yet, even in Brussels, you should beware of pickpockets in touristic areas; Toto knows what I’m speaking about…

I’ll try to upload some pics one day, but since I was a long time without internet, I am something like 3 or 4 months late with photos uploading…

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Au revoir, Bretagne

Thursday, November 2nd, 2006

C’est une petite semaine très plaisante que je viens de passer en Bretagne et en famille (chez ma soeur). Voici quelques photos pour vous convaincre de la beauté de cette région (même à la Toussaint).

I have just spent a lovely week in Brittany, with my family (at my sister’s). Here are a few pics to show you how beautiful this region is (even in november).

bateau
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