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Wednesday 12 September 2007

Partnership between Sogeti and Polytech

By Quetzal on Wednesday 12 September 2007, 00:13 - News

This week, Mohamed alerted me about a weird article from a newspaper: Polytech'Grenoble, the engineering school we were graduated from signed a partnership with Sogeti, a subsidiary company of Cap Gemini. The firm commits to recruit all students graduating in 2010 (about 110 engineers).

This news in Polytech'Grenoble 's Website was also mentioned by computing newspapers, local TV channels as well as the economic newspaper La Tribune.

This is surely good promotion for the school. Is it something interesting for students? This can be debated. However, as it is written in several articles, it reflects that it is currently hard to hire employees for IT consulting companies.

Polytech'Grenoble 's alumni, do not forget to subscribe to the alumni association, APOG.

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Wednesday 22 August 2007

Honeybees' death = Human disappearing?

By Quetzal on Wednesday 22 August 2007, 22:31 - Environment

Currently, I regularly buy an economical newspaper, Les Echos. This monday, I read an article that completely amazed me. Its title was La mort des abeilles met la planète en danger (bees' death puts in jeopardy the planet). When I read it, I understood that the author was mentioning living species instead of the entire Earth.

According to quoted figures, between 60 and 90% of honeybees have disappeared in the United States, between 15 and 95% in France. This phenomenon is called colony collapse disorder. Bees go missing... 80% of vegetal species need honeybees for reproduction purposes though. Without them, no pollination, no fruits, no vegetables... If we want to focus on mankind, what will we eat? Broadly speaking, this means less vegetation, therefore less animals as well... The article mentions that Einstein had already pointed ou our dependancy towards bees.

There are several explanations for the colony collapse disorder. However no one is really sure which ones are right. This article (in French for the ones who understand and a similar one in English) should help us understand our relationship with the Nature and our obligation to protect the planet.

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Saturday 25 November 2006

And in Mexico?

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.

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Thursday 17 August 2006

La Jornada using Web 2.0

By Quetzal on Thursday 17 August 2006, 21:08 - News

La Jornada, a newspaper from Mexico I read has launched an advanced electronic version. It has several RSS feeds like most news website. It has also a tag cloud that is characteristic of a Web 2.0 site. This can show main topics covered by the articles. Another very good feature (in my mind) is that it takes care of accessibility. I believe that most public websites should takle this issue. I have noticed today they have added a Google video. I really like to see La Jornada transforming its website to use new and useful technology. I will continue to visit its website regularly.

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