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Saturday 25 November 2006
By Quetzal on Saturday 25 November 2006, 20:20 - News
Last week, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) appointed himself as the legitimate Mexican president.
Here is the first part of his speech in the Zocalo of Mexico City.
A comment from a reporter from the Mexican newspaper La Jornada.
I do not know how all this will end up. As far as I can see, Mexicans are becoming very divided on this topic. This is very unfortunate.
Saturday 18 November 2006
By Quetzal on Saturday 18 November 2006, 12:17 - Personnal
I have added again pictures on my Flickr account. This time, I put pictures from the Grand Canyon and Las Vegas and I also uploaded with some from Lyon. I hope to get images from Paris soon.
As I have said in the earlier post, I tested the map feature. I find it well done but it takes time. Therefore, I suggest to localize pictures when you upload them on Flickr.
Saturday 11 November 2006
By Quetzal on Saturday 11 November 2006, 16:19 - Environment
While the 12th International conference on climate is helding at Nairobi, press has recently offered us some interesting articles on this topic. Here are the ones I have found interesting...
Thursday 2 November 2006
By Quetzal on Thursday 2 November 2006, 23:44 - Personnal
Yesterday, I went to my first soccer game in a stadium. I have been invited by a friend from Renault Trucks to see a Champions League game: OL against Dynamo from Kiev. It was very cold in the Gerland stadium and I was upset not to have taken my gloves. From my side (Virage Sud), the atmosphere was not so exciting compared to Virage Nord. There were more than 40,000 spectators. Talking about game quality, I was deceived from Lyon's team even if they won this game.
Monday 30 October 2006
By Quetzal on Monday 30 October 2006, 17:36 - Personnal
We have launched several weeks ago a separated French section for our site. Now, it is accessible from www.mendezandco.fr. We maintain simultaneously the French and English versions. In addition, we have now a French version for the blog as well. You can visit it by clicking on the link at your right or directly by typing nouvelles.mendezandco.fr in your navigator.
For geeks, the domain name was bought through Gandi and the dotclear blog motor is hosted there as well.
Thursday 12 October 2006
By Quetzal on Thursday 12 October 2006, 08:23 - Environment
Yesterday, with Anaïs and two friends, I watched An Inconvenient Truth. This movie is about global warming and I highly recommend it!
Wednesday 11 October 2006
By Quetzal on Wednesday 11 October 2006, 10:52 - Technology
Almost two weeks ago, I have received my Fonera from FON. What is FON? Well, I think you can already go to this website to read about it.
What have I done with this Fonera? Well,
it has became a Wifi hotspot. If you come along to
Lyon to visit me, you will be able to reach it (its
name is FON_RENAN). My neighbor noticed it right away because her computer
suddenly connected to my Access Point. She
ran to my door asking to me what had I done. I am sure my explanations were
confusing. I promise I will write this article about it soon, but I am quite
busy now.
FON is not an open system, but if you are already a Fonero, you can connect for free. Here is a link for a map of the FON hotspots.
I am now waiting for Neuf to complete its agreement so that I will have two hotspots: one in Lyon (Neuf) and the other one in Grenoble (Free + Fonera).
Do not hesitate to leave comments if you have some questions.
Saturday 30 September 2006
By Quetzal on Saturday 30 September 2006, 12:48 - Personnal
Yesterday, I had a customer event in the United Kingdom for Volvo IT. This event took place in the Heritage Motor Center, located near Warwick. I had the chance to visit this museum a little bit. It is full of historic British cars. There are some parts dedicated to Austin, others to Land Rover... You can also see extremely weird vehicles, including some built for World Record. It is also the opportunity to be behind the wheel of a car from the beginning of the 20th century. I liked it, even if I had not a lot of time to see all the exposition.
Tuesday 26 September 2006
By Quetzal on Tuesday 26 September 2006, 22:16 - Personnal
Last friday, I wanted to add more pictures on my Flickr account. I found out that I had reached a maximum level. Former pictures were not visible anymore for visitors. I choose to buy a Pro account to continue using Flickr adequately. I have just discovered as well that we can tag the pictures to a specific location on a map (where the photo was taken I guess). I will try out this feature later on.
I have added pictures of Perouges (near Lyon) and from the Yellowstone. As usual, from my Flickr page, you can use the
appropriate tags to browse the pictures.
Monday 11 September 2006
By Quetzal on Monday 11 September 2006, 22:10 - Technology
Today Free, a French operator announced that they will provide FTTH (Fiber To The Home) to Paris starting 2007. This service will be available for other cities later on. As Lyon is a major city, it will be probably connected soon.
What is this Fiber To The Home? This means that your home is connected by optical fiber to your operator. By doing this, you reach ultra high speed for Internet. Free announces 50 Mbs at 29,90 euros per month! Free is not the first operator providing FTTH in Paris, but it will be at this cheap price.
This high speed will bring the development of new services. In Lyon, I have 20 Mbs with Neuf and I already have Internet, TV, and VoIP phone. I think we will approache speeds available in Japan and in Korea! 50 Mbs are probably a start...
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