* « But spending every evening and weekend working alone on programs of ever-increasing complexity is an activity of very dubious value for young people.
Some parents encourage any interest, however obsessive, in computers in the hope that this will pave the way to an exciting and lucrative career for their youngsters. Such a career very rarely materializes. Laboring away in isolation is not the way to develop good programming habits and, significantly, college and university computer courses look with great disfavor upon children who’ve done this. »
From *Learning With Your Home Computer*, by Susan Curran and Ray Curnow, published by Simon & Schuster, 1983 [quoted by « phil ringnalda »:http://philringnalda.com/blog/2003/08/cautionary_tales_from_the_world_of_print.php]
* [in the fourth part – chapters 12-14 : Semantic Web, RDF, and other wackiness (sic) – of *Weaving the Web* by Tim Berners-Lee] « there is also plenty of absurdity, some wandering off into the weeds, and a few (or maybe just one or two) crazy ideas that may just be insane enough to work…. » (« tantek çelik »:http://tantek.com/log/2003/08.html#L20030807t2207)

On « zlog »:http://zlog.co.uk/ {← « zeldman »:http://www.zeldman.com/daily/0703b.shtml#nicely}, nice post on « MT plugins »:http://zlog.co.uk/archives/2003/08/essential_plugins_for_mt, « post archiving URL format »:http://zlog.co.uk/archives/2003/08/clean_urls…, and « TypePad »:http://zlog.co.uk/archives/2003/08/typepad_launches « Over the years Movable has gathered a reputation for being difficult to set up and difficult to use (neither of which I agree with), on the other hand TypePad is all about the simplicity of webloging and because they are both made by SixApart I think this contrast will create a little big-brother-little-brother confusion resulting in a negative start to TypePad’s campaign. Anyway, so far so good — TypePad has a list of features longer than the bug reports for Internet Explorer and a great price, a worthy contender against AOL’s “Journals” and Blogger, their main competitors. »

OK, someone hinted that the {←} thing was ununderstandable by anybody but me. So (for trial purposes only) I switch to fine print:

* « ZdF, aka the dissident frogman »:http://www.thedissidentfrogman.com/ made a good joke about fragrance: « Irrelevant »:http://www.thedissidentfrogman.com/bureau/000109.html (By Vil Pain ?). He gave credit to …trois chasseurs de fouines : Cowboy Bob d’Axis of « Weasels.com »:http://www.axisofweasels.com/blog/axisofweasels.html et the Watcher de « Watcher of Weasels »:http://www.upsaid.com/watcherofweasels/ [ainsi que] votre dévoué dissident frogman…
* « Watcher of Weasels »:http://www.upsaid.com/watcherofweasels/ dispose d’un council où « e-Claire »:http://www.e-claire.us/ a fait son entrée aujourd’hui. Once « enjoyable reading »:http://www.soours.com/movabletype/archives/000050.html, nowdays more often difficult to grasp.

Following « ZdF »:http://thedissidentfrogman.com/’sblogroll, found « Blogwise »:http://www.blogwise.com/ and its interresting « Google -blog Tool »:http://www.blogwise.com/cgi-bin/search.pl (needs an « API »:https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount?continue=http://api.google.com/createkey&followup=http://api.google.com/createkey, so I got me « one »:https://soours.com/squirrelmail/src/read_body.php?mailbox=INBOX&passed_id=107&startMessage=1&show_more=0)

* « USS Clueless »:http://denbeste.nu/ has « a paper on France »:http://denbeste.nu/cd_log_entries/2003/08/Courtesan.shtml (where is France ?)

{← « ZDF »:http://www.thedissidentfrogman.com/dacha/000230.html (« Steven den Beste [est] un auteur si exhaustif, [qu’]il y a peu à ajouter derrière lui »)}

* « Blogitorial »:http://gandalf.ics.uci.edu/blog/ hosts a post from Ariel Gaussart on the same subject called « Three Weeks in France, Ten Years Later »:http://gandalf.ics.uci.edu/blog/2003/08/three_weeks_in_france_ten_years_later.html
Exerpts provided for your personnal benefit: « As my wife and I strolled down *Gambetta Avenue in Grenoble*, host of the 1968 Winter Olympics, admiring the beauty and majesty of its surrounding mountains, we were often forced to refocus our attention to the lower level of the city sidewalk to avoid stepping on fresh dog poop. Several days later, as we make our way towards the Eiffel tower leaving the Champs-Elysées – where we cheered our own Lance Armstrong, to his 5th consecutive Tour de France victory – we asked a distinctly pregnant traffic cop for the nearest public restroom. She smiled at us and hesitantly indicated that she had been wondering the same thing herself for the past couple of hours.
These two anecdotes, transposed on a cultural level, reflect what we have experienced over the past three weeks in France.  »

{← « ForNow »:http://4now.blogspot.com (Fort Naoh ?) ← « post #13 on ZDF comments to the ZdF rant above »:http://gandalf.ics.uci.edu/blog/2003/06/carls_junior_disses_france.html}

* « l’esprit des mots »:http://www.valeursactuelles.com/culture/esprit_mots/index.php du (parfois) bon Philippe Barthelet est lisible (!) sur « VA.com »:http://www.valeursactuelles.com

Try « GeoURL »:http://geourl.org/ for « Grenoble »:http://geourl.org/near/?lat=45.19&lon=5.72&dist=100. Then follow.

* La « manche à air de St Hilaire du Touvet »:http://www.prevol.com/webcam/webcam.php3 {← « elanceur »:http://elanceur.weblogger.com/2001/07/18#a86}

(près de Grenoble, of course)