Rodrigo A. Sepúlveda Schulz

Sculptures of Jacques Le Nantec

DSC00345, originally uploaded by rsepulveda.

As I was coming home last night, I stopped by an art dealer near my place: I've always liked sculpture, bronzes in particular.

I had never really heard of the Jacques Le Nantec, but his work is really nice, with lots of attention to detail, and a huge influence of his libido of course.

I took a series of pictures of the sculptures on sale that I liked most. As with any sculpture, you have to look at them often, from different angles. Here's my Flickr set.

At EBG general assembly today

At the EBG general assembly currently. As in any recent conference, Wifi sucks big time and it's almost impossible to use the net. I've just set up a channel on IRC if you want to follow discussions:
irc://irc.freenode.net/#ebg

(if you need an IRC client, check Chatzilla on firefox).

Anyone that is anyone on the French Internet is here in the room today. I wish I could upload a few pix but the bandwidth available won't allow me to do so for a while.

See ya on IRC.

Philippe Rodriguez about to launch Wantuno

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I caught up with Philippe last night during a funky dinner in a Parisian hotel. Michael got a pix of me during the interview...

France 3:1 Spain

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Streets of Paris last night...

You haven't bought on cashstore.fr yet ?

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Weird stuff happens in offices in Paris...

Anyways, should you want to know why she's angry, check cashstore.fr !

FON is fun :)

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Fon is planning to announce on Monday, that they will hand out ONE cool million FON wi-fi routers at a cost of $5 / 5 €, to help democratize the wireless generation.

Indeed as I was travelling in the US last week, I felt the need for such a service at last! I have an Orange flat data rate account, that theoretically allows me to connect everywhere in France, and I discovered last week, also has a numebr of romaing agreements in the US when I tried to connect to hotspots (shame on me, I left my password back home...).
Nevertheless, whenever I poped open my laptop, I would at least half a dozen wifi networks available for connection, but all protected by WEP/WPA keys.

Wouldn't it have been great if I could have connected to at least one of them with my FON account ? Benefit from true Wi-Fi roaming ? In NYC the other day, I was trying to download my email on my new Nokia N91 phone (it does Wifi !!!). Most networks were closed, and every now and then in town, I could connect and download the stuff.

Although the economics are somewhat complicated between who gets what (the carriers, the wifi providers, the users), it is a public service to have a service such as FON around. Now anyone of the big operators would launch a similar service; well do it. FON is at the moment the only service out there aiming at making wifi connectivity easy. Let's help him, and grab routers at $5 !

For more information, check Martin's blog.

(disclosure: FON's founder & CEO is an investor in my company).

Mathieu Nouzareth (Boonty)

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Caught up with him inside the San Francisco Apple Store...

A chat with Jay and Ryanne (node101)

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shot at barcamp SF, in Microsoft's offices

France 0:0 Togo (still)

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A little clip from the bar at Supernova where the French guys were following the most important panel of the conference...

Preparing for the World Cup final with Braaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaasil !

How can't you support this beautiful culture & spirit ?