the iSight of the moon

I finally got my built-in webcam working on the crackbook. Ok, that was just the matter of looking for an HOWTO on the Ubuntu forum and that just worked in 3 minutes. I’m now at my summer job (in a food-for-farm-animals factory) but they kinda gave nothing to do to me so I brought the laptop, plugged the network in, stole the proxy credentials and now I can work on my stuff (being paid). I hope that situation will end soon and that they’ll find me something to work on because I have 4 weeks left here. But, for now.. let’s play with some multimedia stuff

Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band

That happened April the 15th at Rennes and that was one of the best concerts of my life.

WEIPA

Sur l’air de Santiano, H. Auffray

C’est un groupe de blairots bourrés à la Kro,
Les orgas! Déchets de l’INSA!
Ils s’amusent avec nous les bizus
Mais après trois verres on les voit plus.

On nous dit qu’au WEIPA on fait pas la loi,
INSA ohh! Bande de mythos!
Trois péquenauds arrivés en 2CV,
Qu’étaient certainement pas hétéros.

Un jour on repensera au WEIPA et ses orgas,
INSA ohh! Que c’était beau!
On a envie d’leur gueuler très haut
Tellement je t’aime…

Refrain:
Tiens bon bizu et prends du bon temps!
INSA ohh! Prêts au chaos!
Si vraiment ça devient trop saoulant,
On se barre jusqu’à…

filling the pymsn AddressBook

This weekend, I’ve started to implement methods as add_contact, delete_contact, add_group, delete_group, rename_group, etc. at the pymsn’s AddressBook level of abstraction. Things are getting cleaner and with hope, almost all of the soap stuff in WLM will be covered in pymsn in the next three weeks. Changes are merged on my personal branch.
Last week of school before holidays, I’m totally out of classes and I should get myself back into all the school stuff because it could hurt later with exams (at the end of May). I’m not really motivated to code on simmobil too. I’m going to Paris on the first week of holidays (Tuesday-Friday), attending Fostel and sleeping by my brother. I’ll maybe give a lightning talk at Fostel about pymsn (need, development, use) but I’m not really sure yet : first talk in english in front of skilled people, it could hurt : I need to prepare for it and we’ll see. The other week will be filled with school and pymsn work. Adrien should start working on halazoon soon, maybe we’ll work on the architecture this week so he could start coding. Since it’s based on telepathy-python, it’s not gonna be difficult. I have a urge need to play with cairo too

Well, trying hard to read my network course book…

Indochine

Last Thursday, we’ve attended a very nice concert of the French band Indochine with Richard, Benjamin, Gabriel and Gaëtan. I used to be a huge fan of this band when I was in high school and it was great to see them live once again. Even if I’m not really in love with their last material, they played lots of old songs bringing me few years back… with smile

Plans

No time to say anything but that enumeration :

• Mar 15-18 CeBIT, Hannover : 18 hours in the bus (I take a copy of telepathy spec + Asimov’s Foundation with me), bier, friends, food, technologies ;
• In two weeks, holiday again (two weeks long) : massive work on pymsn, foundations of halazoon, and Apr 4-5 Fostel, Paris with maybe a lightning talk about pymsn/halazoon ;
• May 10th-13th Rock n’ Solex, Rennes : concerts and solex race ;
• Summer : 3 months holiday, I plan to work a bit (like, a month) where I usually work at summer to earn money to feel comfortable to realize all of my others summer projects : July 15-21 GUADEC, Birmingham where we (the ospy/pymsn/butterfly/halazoon team) plan to give a talk. I’m looking forward to see Ali and meet Ole. August 10-12 La Route du Rock, St. Malo. I plan to spend several weeks in Olso, Norway. All that surrounded and mixed by full time development on pymsn ;
• Back to school October 1st.

White tea

I was waiting for my cup of water to boil up in the microwave oven when I found out that I didn’t want to drink the tea I usually drink (I mean earl grey tea). So I’ve opened an old tea box and found a lonely white tea bag from Lipton. I had bought this one way back in the middle of 2005, when several pleasant things were happening in my life. Now I find my life boring.

With the smell of that tea, I can recall the smile of a girl and my stupidity. With the taste of it, I can remember a meal shared with a friend and our delight.

Sometimes I just miss people and past times. Right now, I find my life boring.

Wifi in da house

Yesterday I had to get up early to retrieve an ADSL connection box at the shop. With my brother, we used to make the usb modem travel between each other’s room, him allowing me to use it between 4 am and 5 am on full moon. Now the box broadcasts a WiFi signal I can connect to using my macbook so I can be connected to the Internet the whole day and nights. I’m now on a desk in the attic, where I’m not bothered by my brother wanting to chat on MSN… and I can haunt #pymsn as long as I want , being as unproductive as I can be.