Jean-Marc Liotier

Oct 28

French tax authority deploys Mozilla Thunderbird on 130k workstations to replace Lotus Notes and Microsoft Outlook - http://j.mp/1mvZjr


Thomas Schelling’s focal point concept… So useful for coordination ans negotiation. I love game theory - http://j.mp/3tjTK5


To stop conversation fragmentation, Salmon protocol defines how comments swim upstream to the source being discussed - http://j.mp/pEQpC


Human Rights Watch affirms that Guinea forces planned crackdown was “premeditated and pre-planned at the highest level” - http://j.mp/2CNPca


Oct 27

Infographic of the day : concept-map exploring opposing worldviews on the Left vs. Right axis of the political spectrum - http://j.mp/1MXEUV


Call me a dinosaur - I enjoy Bash so much I even use it with MySQL. I know I should use Perl or Python more often instead…


Echography done; baby’s fine. Under influence from this job, I feel like writing a project report spreadsheet with a smiley on every line…


Oct 23

A foreigner’s life in a Beijing prison - http://j.mp/GFZSS - the torture of close confinement and isolation from everyone and everything.


Gave Google Reader a try. Even with cut’n’paste URL sharing, I still skim faster using my cron-updated Gregarius with the Lilina theme.


Contacts in Guinea Conakry confirm that the targeted assassinations of opponents as reported by RFI are still going on - http://j.mp/3c3qzb


Oct 22

Yourdon’s 1989 classic “Structured Analysis” is now updated and update-able as a wiki : http://j.mp/3lNfCm


Map showing proportion of population with diabetes - http://j.mp/2HwH9w - there sure looks like there is a food & lifestyle correlation…


Power*Architect looks like a nice GPLv3 free software data modeling tool. Anyone using it or preferring another one ? http://j.mp/2tAa8p


Sonnet and Gmail’s spellchecker detect language automatically. I wish Firefox and Thunderbird did too - I’m tired of constant switching…


Oct 21

Highlights of Google Fellow’s keynote at LADIS on “Designs, Lessons and Advice from Building Large Distributed Systems” - http://j.mp/3pulPp