Category Archives: General

It sounds to me like the mind set of inventors is to look at their everyday life from a distance and, every instant, think about what is deeply inconvenient in what they’re doing and what could be improved. And I … Continue reading →

The recent buzz about Amazon automatically deleting eBooks from people’s Kindle was interesting. For a little bit of contrast here’s the workflow I’ve been using for about 1.5 year now. Buy a Sony Reader. You can actually transfer PDFs and … Continue reading →

This is a call to entrepreneurs who want to make money I think this would be a cool idea but I don’t have the time nor the interest of developing it. If this already exists, then please excuse my ignorance … Continue reading →

As some of you may know, a new law (“Hadopi”) has been voted in France that allows private companies to monitor illegal downloads of their copyrighted content, log the IP addresses, ask the Internet access providers for actual names, and … Continue reading →

Programming tools like Eclipse assist your geeky typing by automatically adding closing brackets and ending quotes for you when you type the opening ones. This gives you extremely bad habits and you end up leaving all kinds of doors open.

Now I am not saying it is always that bad, but frankly, I could have taken this photo in many (if not most) car interiors in any Chinese large city: Note the lucky charm (top right), but no belt (also … Continue reading →