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Testing Windows Phone 7 WordPress app

pierrickblons — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 13:40:03 +0000

Right now testing the app

Posted from WordPress for Windows Phone

Soirée Geekement Correct

pierrickblons — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:14:41 +0000

Lundi 9 février, je serais à l’évènement Geekement Correct pour la première émission de la saison. Si vous voulez venir assister vous aussi suivez le lien en dessous!

Ici il devait y avoir un SWF sympa mais apparement WordPress en veut pas…

Plus d’information:

Geekement Correct

Blog de Ravanna

Photo session in Rouen (Normandy)

pierrickblons — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:52:06 +0000

As you may know I’m quite into photography since I bought a nice camera. Yesterday I hang around Rouen with my wide lense while the sun was getting down.

Here is the cathedral of Rouen the highest arrow (in the middle) is around 150m high.

This is now the tourism center and formely the finalcial office during the 16e century when it has been built:

Some pictures of few traditional norman streets:

CJE – Interview Louis Schweitzer

pierrickblons — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:57:20 +0000

I was invited the 21st of January to the CJE (Club Junior Entreprise). This is a regular event organized by the CNJE (Confederation Nationale des Junior Entreprises).Thanks to SEPEFREI the Junior Entreprise I was involved when I was at EFREI I was invited to go there.

I was really surprised to discover Louis Schweitzer. I only knew that he used to be Renault CEO and he is now the President of the HALDE (Haute Autorité de Lutte contre les Discriminations et pour l’Egalité). Thanks to this interview I discover that Louis Schweitzer was into politics in the socialist party before taking is position in Renault. It was really interesting to have the opinion of a “left CEO” about crisis, tough decisions he had to take as a CEO and so on… If you want to see the full interview (in french) in video

All my pictures of the event on Flickr

Got a new job!

pierrickblons — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:42:58 +0000

I just got the call few days ago when Microsoft annouced they were laying off 1400 people and 5000 in total for the next 18 months that I was hired to be part of the company! I will join the TAM ADC (Technical Account Manager – Application Developer Consultant) team. I can’t wait to start (on the 2nd of February) and be part of Microsoft

I still need to find a flat around south Paris.

Again!

pierrickblons — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 17:56:14 +0000

Ok it’s 2009 now. As usual everybody take good resolution for the coming year. Why not putting again the idea of updating this blog. I’m always wondering why I can’t update it regularly. In China it was hard even if I succeed to install TOR, I had to wait for ages to have the new post page. It was to painfull and then my laptop was at the repair center…

If you want to follow a little more what’s happening for me just go on twitter: twitter.com/pierrickblons

Anyway after travelling for more than one year outside of France, I’m back. I’ve been studying in UK in Bath. Then I moved in Beijing, China and worked at CMUNE for 10 months. I will talk much more about CMUNE in another post. This company is great and they are building an amazing product! That was my final internship and I graduated in October 2008. I’m now officially a french engineer from EFREI. After my internship I decided to come back closer to my familly and girlfriend.

So that’s it. I think it’s a good time now to step back a little bit. Thinking about everything I saw during this last year. I met amazing people from all over the world it’s was definitely a great experience. I will try to use this blog maybe to talk about things that happened during this last year. Maybe I will work a little bit more on Sightweb too. I’m very ashamed that I didn’t go further with Xavier but I think we will do something about it in the next few weeks

Now I’m trying to find a job and a flat in Paris.I applied to work at Microsoft France and waiting for the answer.

Here we go now let’s try again to animate this blog a little

TOR vs. The Great Firewall

pierrickblons — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:15:47 +0000

I’m back ^^

Finally with the release of Firefox 3, the TOR plugin has been updated and works fine. I can now come back on my blog from China. It’s quite slow but it works. So I will try to write all my crazy experiences here. Unfortunately some of them are no so fresh in my mind after 3 months. But the next ones will arrive quite soon. I also open another blog related to Internet called Sightweb with a friend. We write about Internet in China and France, new startups and so on…

Let’s wait for the Euro Cup now: France – Italy (around 3am in Beijing!)

WordPress et Google analytics

pierrickblons — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:42:58 +0000

Bon petite déception ce soir…

WordPress n’est pas compatible avec Google analytics. En fait pas exactement ils utilisent déjà Google Analytics pour avoir des stats et il est impossible d’avoir deux instances de Google Analytics sur un même site. Résultat je suis en train de regarder sur les concurrents ce qu’il y a de compatible avec Google Analytics. Je pense que Blogger dois l’être, je vais approfondir la question

Donc en gros préparer vous à un changement d’URI prochain pour ce blog…

Petit comparatif entre la France et le Royaume-Uni concernant l’accès Internet.

pierrickblons — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 20:17:05 +0000

Depuis quelques semaines, il nous est totalement impossible d’aller au-delà de 10Ko/sec en téléchargement entre 18h et 1h. La raison fournie par British Telecom est que nous sommes constamment en train d’utiliser la bande passante au maximum. Nous sommes 6 étudiants à être connecté en permanence à Internet mais à quoi peuvent-ils penser ? Que l’on va juste lire nos mails ?

Je pense qu’ils n’ont toujours pas compris que le succès des nouveaux services internet est du en parti au fait que les vitesses de connexion ait grandement augmenté et que l’on puisse être connecté en permanence. Bref, j’ai vraiment l’impression de faire un bon 5 ou 6 ans en arrière.

Pour info voici un petit comparatif des prix proposé par BT :

£17.99 :

- Routeur standard (pas de wifi)

- 5Go de téléchargement

- Débit maximum de 8Mb

- Un semblant d’appels téléphoniques offerts le week-end et le soir

£22.99 :- Routeur Wifi- 8Go de téléchargement

- Débit maximum de 8Mb

- Un semblant d’appels téléphoniques offerts le week-end et le soir

£24.99 :

- Routeur Wifi

- Téléchargement illimité*

- Débit maximum de 8Mb

- Un semblant d’appels téléphoniques offerts le week-end et le soir

* Perfect for taking advantage of everything broadband has to offer. Download films and music, play games online, watch videos and listen to the radio – all with no limits. Fair usage policy applies

C’est ça qu’il faut bien lire, le “fair usage policy applies”. C’est sous ce prétexte que l’on est maintenant bridé tous les soirs. Super pratique quand on a trouvé un boulot qui nécessite de se connecté à une application sur internet. Je vais peut être demandé à BT s’ils ne peuvent pas déplacer mes cours le soir pendant leurs heures de castrage, juste histoire de pouvoir travailler…

Bref, en France pour 30€ on peut avoir un vrai service, donc arrêter de vous plaindre pour une fois et profitez de votre connexion Free, Neuf, Orange ou autre !

Source: www.bt.com : Compare BT Total Broadband options

PS: Il est 8pm, il m’aura fallu à peut près 10 mins pour afficher la page pour pouvoir copier coller ce post à partir de Word…

Want to discover the world?

pierrickblons — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:44:59 +0000

I have heard about this website this summer in a french tv show but they didn’t tell the url… Finnally thanks to an article on 01NET about social network I found it! This is a community of people who share their flat, house, room or even the floor to accomodate people. I don’t have to accomodate people if you want to take part of the network so you can feel free to travel everywhere in the world.

After registering the volounteers from this community will validate your profil. I’m still waiting for their reply…

So will you be interested in charing your flat? Or discover the world? I think that when I will have free time and money I will try! I need to discover this amazing world!

http://www.hospitalityclub.org

– Update: I just receive the confirmation mail, so perhaps a new post about this social network in few days.