Rodrigo A. Sepúlveda Schulz

Administrator Velib'

Administrator Velib', originally uploaded by ulikleafar.

Amusing. The new French Velib' system runs under Windows.

Did someone forget to deactivate the Windows Screensaver ? :)

links for 2007-08-31

• Westin Shanghai Hotels: The Westin Bund Center, Shanghai - Hotel Rooms at westin.com
  suggestion de Gilles Klein
  (tags: hotel shanghai)
• Peace Hotel
  suggestion de Cédric Ingrand
  (tags: hotel shanghai)
• Shanghai Hotel in China - Grand Hyatt Shanghai
  suggestion de Mathieu Nouzareth
  (tags: hotel shanghai)

links for 2007-08-30

• Marcianos.TV » En directo
  (tags: live TV mogulus marcianos.tv)
• Stickam - The Live Community
  (tags: live tv video)
• Seek blog: Actualité : Test de Vpod.tv avec une vidéo à l?arrache
  (tags: vpod.tv review nice)

links for 2007-08-29

• A Few Truths About Online Video - Forbes.com
  Advertisers don't like surprises and there's no telling what could end up on a mass-audience video-sharing site--copyrighted content, clips of questionable taste, you name it. That explains the limited scope of YouTube's long-awaited announcement last wee
  (tags: video ads market)
• Orange threatens to spoil Nokia's online music entertainment party - Independent Online Edition > Business News
  (tags: nokia music download itunes launch)

links for 2007-08-28

• automatic post from del.icio.us to your typepad blog
  (tags: del.icio.us Typepad howto blog tools automatic post)
• Avis d’expert : Free, la télévision personnelle et le droit par Blandine Poidevin – Tribune Journal du Net
  Le cadre juridique applicable à ces services est fixé par la loi n° 86- 1067 du 30 septembre 1986 relative à la liberté de communication qui les soumet, lorsqu'ils n'utilisent pas les fréquences assignées par le CSA (câble, satellite, ADSL, Intern
  (tags: free tvperso law loi legal)
• Contenu généré par les utilisateurs : 1,5 milliard de dollars de revenus publicitaires en 2007
  (tags: ugc ad revenue)
• Vint Cerf, aka the godfather of the net, predicts the end of TV as we know it | Technology | The Guardian
  (tags: vintcerf tv future)

Le Pont de Normandie

 

If you like engineering, travelling through the Pont de Normandie is quite a marvel.

From wikipedia:
"The bridge was designed by Michel Virlogeux. The architects were François Doyelle and Charles Lavigne.[1] Construction by Spie Batignolles began in 1988 and lasted 7 years. The bridge opened on January 20, 1995.

At that time the bridge was both the longest cable-stayed bridge in the world, and had the record for the longest distance between piers for any cable-stayed bridge. It was more than 250 m longer between piers than the previous record. This record was lost in 1999 to the Tatara Bridge in Japan. Its record for length for a cable-stayed bridge was lost in 2004 to the 2883 meters of the Rio-Antirio. At the end of construction, the bridge had cost $465 million.

The cable-stayed design was chosen because it was both cheaper and more resistant to high winds than a suspension bridge."

Visit to Giverny

DSC05425.JPG, originally uploaded by rsepulveda.

On this sunny Sunday afternoon, the family and I took a little trip to Giverny village, where the house of Claude Monet, founder of the impressionist movement lies in the middle of a beautiful garden filled with flours.

Enjoy the slideshow.

NO end in Sight - Movie about the US in Iraq

At last, a different perspective. We all remember here the Freedom Fries...

This is one movie I'd like to see. And then move on to help try to find a solution. Part of what Bernard Kouchner is trying to do.

And I'm always horrified by the numbers on this site :

The 11th hour - The Film

http://wip.warnerbros.com/11thhour/

The world climate is a real problem : Al Gore's initiatives are great, this one by Leo DiCaprio should be great too.

Facts:
- coldest winter in Chile in decades at the moment
- November-type weather in Paris in mid-summer in Paris
- HUrricanes and floodings in central America & the USA...

Here are pictures of the Mont Blanc glacier (the largest in Western Europe) I took on monday. Almost shrinking by the day. When my kids are my age, it will probably have disappeared...

Something is going wrong and we need to start acting.

integrating del.icio.us and twitter updates on this blog

Can one of my kind readers point me to the proper and easy way to update my blog with a daily summary of
- my twitter updates
- my del.icio.us bookmarks

these 2 seem to be updated much more often than this blog :)

Thanks.