SCINTILLATION by Xavier Chassaing

Great peace of work, definitely worth you time.

SCINTILLATION from Xavier Chassaing on Vimeo.

Calibrate

Hadlow in New Caledonia

The champ rocking it out, this movie has it all, great shooting, the ride, the scenery, R8, Lamborgini, day dreamin....

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Montreal with a voice of Marseille

Very nice video of Montreal by Supergab, for when homesickness kicks in ...
Song by Camille from Marseille.

Premier essai avec / First try with the Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH1 & 14-140mm OIS. from Super Gab on Vimeo.

Panasonic Lumix DMC-TS1

Here is my new camera, its in the mail right now :)

It has very impressive specs and leica lens usually never disappoint.

28mm wide-angle leica lens
12 megapixels
waterproof
shockproof
4.6 optical zoom (35 mm Equivalent: 28 - 128 mm)
HD Movie in AVCHD lite

Check out the dpeview

Mac OS X : Install Jdeveloper 11G/ADF, Oracle 10G R2, running Weblogic

Running and developping some oracle ADF application on a mac involves a bit of grinding.
Every installation has its tweeks, You need Xcode for the database and to change system parameters. You need to create some symlinks to valide the jre for the JDev install, and you need to change some VM option for Weblogic not to crash at runtime.

Database: ray_apps_blog: How to install Oracle Database 10g on Mac OS X Intel

JDeveloper 11G: Andrejus Baranovskis's Blog: JDeveloper 11g Production on Mac OS

Weblogic: Running with Integrated WLS fails on Mac OS (8681385)

Simmer

Each day awaiting
the right time,
the right winds...
when everything belongs
every second
is my moment...

SimmerFilm(2)
Uploaded by thesearch. - Basketball, baseball, pro wrestling and more sports videos.

Lac Sabourin on www.windguru.com

My Lake in Quebec, Lac Sabourin is one of the 19th tracked spots to kite and wind surf in Quebec. I was just wondering how I will know wind conditions when I move back to Mother Land, now I found it. Tomorrow will be 22 knots in Pointe-Rouge Marseille, looks like a kitesurfing day, boouuya.

The four agreements - Don Miguel Ruiz's code for life

Don Miguel Ruiz

agreement 1

Be impeccable with your word - Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.

agreement 2

Don’t take anything personally - Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.

agreement 3

Don’t make assumptions - Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.

agreement 4

Always do your best - Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

Marseille

Its official. I now live in Marseille. I will eat Bouillabaisse, I will say "Je crains dégun", I will at some point be fed up of the Mistral blowing in my face. I will ride my bike as hard as I can in these curves and I will work my ass off and enjoy Provence like a mad man.

I currently live in a surreal apartment on a little mountain with private park, 2 minutes walk from the sea, lets just say it eases the pain of moving.

My appartment in Marseille on a rainy day, on my first day

persevere and succeed

If your in search of motivation, just take a look as these to inspirational footage's.



Life = Risk

Dégustation de vino au Fouquet's

Hier avait lieu une dégustation professionnelle de Vins du Monde, organisé par l´ « Amateur de Bordeaux » au restaurant Le Fouquet´s. J'avais la chance d'y être invité par une copine qui représente la société ADE INTERNACIONAL EXCAL de la région de Castilla y León avec leurs merveilleux vins del ribeira del duero.

En plus de déguster les vins de Castilla y León, j'en ai profité pour discuter avec Cristina Forner, propriétaire de la prestigieuse Bodegas Marqués de Cáceres de la région de Rioja qui m'a fait goûter ses vins grandes réserves!

Je suis sorti de la dégustation dans un état des plus joyeux, il va falloir apprendre a ne pas tout boire le vin et le cracher comme les pros.

Liste des vins présentés par ADE INTERNACIONAL EXCAL.

SpringSource and VMware teaming up to take over the APaaS market

August 10th was a very exiting day.

An open source company which products have been the center of my work for the past 3 years, has been purchased by the Virtualization monster VMWare for 420 million$. Who said fully open source models couldn't work?

So this Spring java framework giant, that nobody heard about outside the java community, overnight becomes a huge player in the next big hype of the information technology world. Paas (Platform as a Service), competing with Oracle/Sun, Microsoft Azure and Google App Engine.

Gartner goes beyond calling it a application-platform-as-a-service (APaaS) technology portfolio. ( see the Gartner analysis )

You also need to read Java Guru and SpringSource CEO Rod Johnson's letter to the Spring community explaining the agreement with VMWare

Computer World also has a good review on the association

Cambodia roadtrip after Pinna's Wedding in Saigon

Yeshiva

We can't run from who we are. Our destiny chooses us.
-- Rounders

Les 3 règles

Quelles sont les 3 règles ?
1. Toujours regarder les gens dans les yeux, c’est comme ça qu’on se fait respecter
2. Ne jamais avoir peur de demander quelque chose, voler ne sert à rien
3. Ne jamais respecter quelqu’un qui ne te respecte pas.
-Sinik

deadmau5 @ Sonar Sabado el 20 deJunio

I'm headed towards Barca for the week-end where the Barcelona’s International Festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Art is taking place :)

I'll be able to see canadian DJ/producer Deadmau5 .... and many others!

deadmau5 & Kaskade - I Remember (extended version

Cœur de pirate / Béatrice Martin

Wow, découverte musicale du jour. Dommage que je serai au Vietnam pendant ces concerts a Paris.... elle sera de retour!




Coeur de Pirate || Comme des enfants from Dare To Care Records on Vimeo.

Cherokee Wisdom

One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people.
He said, "My son, the battle is between two "wolves" inside us all.
One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance,
self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.
The other is Good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness,
benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith."
The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather:
"Which wolf wins?" The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed."

Pablo Neruda

La risa es el lenguaje del alma.
--Laughter is the language of the soul

Sandrine Pinna

A year ago, one of my best buddies JR Pinna contacted his little sister for the first time. I'll always remember that day, getting to work and seeing him with shinning eyes and a tear dropping from his eye. Now the little sister is making big brother proud, rising star in Taiwan, she was nominated for the Best Actress award at the prestigious Golden Horse Film Awards for her performance in the movie Miao Miao.

Le Greg a Canal+

Petit vidéo du Greg, fidèle a lui même, lors de son parcours vers la victoire du Grand Central Station Tournament of Champions a NYC a il y a quelques semaines et de son ascension vers le 1er rang mondial. Intérieur Sport Canal+ 22 Février Gregory Gaultier
C'est l'année du Greg...

CalDAV RFC 4791 helps sync all your calendars (ical and gcal)

Back in the Oracle days, my boss was very active in the collaboration RFC business. ICalendar, VCard revisions to later become co-author of the CalDAV Request For Comment. Working on the Oracle Calendar SDK and server, I became quite familiar with those protocols and can appreciate the complexity involved in making this happen. I think I had(was kindly asked ;) to read and give feedback on the CalDAV RFC Drafts 1000 times, while Bern was writing it. One could not imagine the amount of work and perfectionism involved in writing an internet protocol.

This morning I was pretty satisfied when I installed this neat calaboration google app to import my google calendar in macbook pro calendar(iCal) to create a meeting in iCal, modify it in Google and see all this 2 seconds later in iCal on my macbook, iCal on my iPhone and my Google calendar. Now the real strength and objective of CalDAV is to collaborate between 3rd party collaboration applications, lets see how that goes..

Jim Rogers: Abolish The IMF & World Bank

This is a copy of a lecture I had from a McGill finance teacher in 2002, damn I new he was right but I thought I could ride the wave and get out in time, instead I got stuck in the tsunami ...

Chamonix January 09

Me and Max left Paris with lots of ambush for Chamonix for 6 days @ St-Gervais Les Bains to meet Romain and his crew. The Chile nos and the guys from Antibes decided not to come at the last minute because of the lack of snow and work. Then Milot and Captain Blain met us down there for the week-end. We had unbelievable sunny days but weren't satisfied. The week-end after, we had planed to go to Portugal with Bobby visiting Europe but changed our mind with the 140 cm of snow coming down and rented a van to head back there with Bobby, Mag and J + we got to meet Cyn and her man down there. First 2 days the mountains were closed because of the Avalanche warning, they were provoking avalanches everywhere so that we could have one of the best riding experiences on Sunday. We had too much Champagne on Saturday but the Sunday ride will still be carved in our memories forever.

Chamonix 6 days and then 1 week-end for a meter of Snow

Forum Arena

Going into a humongous week in Austria and Italy I needed something stronger to hold my feet.
Here it is

NFL Film Wired for Sound du Super Bowl XLIII

You have to watch this 20 minutes film

Marcel a trouvé un long Python

Tyrolean Alps Tour de de force 2009

It's finally all booked, in a month or so, I'll be again this year experiencing the Austrian Snowboarding extravaganza. Can't wait +++

March 14th: : fly to Munich - meet Benny and the E boys flying in from Montreal - pick up the SUV - drive straight to Mayrhofen Austria, small party town close to TUX.
March 15th : :Ride - Hintertux / sleep Mayrhofen
March 16th : : Ride - Hintertux / sleep Mayrhofen
March 17th : : Ride - Hintertux / sleep Mayrhofen
March 18th : : Drive to Cortina d`Ampezzo Italy, magnificent and world famous ski town.
March 19th : : Ride - Cortina d`Ampezzo
March 20th : : Ride - Cortina d`Ampezzo
March 21th : : Drive back to Munich - night out in town - crash at the Benny's apartment for the night
March 22th : : fly back to Paris, sniff, sniff

Quel abruti ce Sarko

Le nabot Sarkosy avec ces commentaires gratuits et désobligeants face a la situation du souverainisme Québécois a fait couler beaucoup d'encre cette semaine. Je ne l'ai jamais affectionné, mais la c'est la goutte qui fait déborder le vase. Les chef québécois lui ont fait l'honneur d'une belle lettre...

Lettre à Nicolas Sarkozy

Montréal, le 4 février 2009 —

Monsieur le Président,

Nous voulons réagir de deux façons aux propos que vous avez récemment tenus à l’Élysée au sujet du Québec. D’abord, vous nous voyez ravis de constater que vous trouvez trop timide la politique française antérieure qui parlait de « non indifférence » pour qualifier l’intensité des rapports entre nos deux peuples. Vous préférez, dites-vous, parler « d’amour » entre des nations frères faisant partie d’une même famille. Dans la même veine, et cela vous surprendra peut-être de la part de deux leaders indépendantistes, nous vous félicitons pour l’énergie que vous avez mise, et que vous mettez encore, à assurer le succès de dossiers franco-québécois que nous appuyons vivement : la reconnaissance réciproque des diplômes entre Français et Québécois, qui permettra à nos professionnels d’œuvrer et de voyager plus facilement de part et d’autre, et le projet de libre-échange Canada-Union Européenne, dont le Québec est le principal promoteur et serait, de ce côté-ci de l’Atlantique, le principal bénéficiaire.

....

La lettre en integrale

Shootouts are good

Sabou shining in a perfect appearance vs Philly even wrestling Hartnell after the winning save....

Careers are often like roller coasters, you'll be back there my friend.

Superbowl XLIII Commercials

If you haven't seen them during the game, check them out

Explication de la crise

Bonobo BatoFar Paris February 09

Chamonix Mont-Blanc

Last week I left Paris for a 5 day trip with Max to meet friends in their cottage in St-Gervais / Mont-Blanc. So on wednesday night we met Romain and Mag from Antibes to their Cottage in the Mountain.

Riding Day 1 Beautiful and Sunny day @ GRANDS MONTETS
Riding Day 2 Beautiful and less Sunny day Megeve and St-Gervais

On Friday we met Milot and Captain Blain in Chamonix where we discovered a great little restaurant Le Bivouac

Riding Day 3 Nice day in Brevent Chamonix

We left with the snowfall on Sunday, so we decided to go back tomorrow with 80cm of the fresh white stuff. Can't wait to float in that powda, with, max, bobby, j and maggy may.

Dany Sabourin on Waivers

Sunday on the train I got a text message saying Sabou was traded to the Oilers for Mathieu Garon and I found it a little fishy. With more info from the news and Saby, the Oilers already have their 2 starting goalies, they wanted to get rid of Garon 1million $ salary and were forced to take him in the trade. Now the Islanders are a good prospect to pick him up on waivers today with DiPietro and MacDonald sidelined Dany Sabourin au ballottage. NYC wouldn't be too shabby.... definitely a better city to live in.

Thats it, thats all

"What is snowboarding to me? It's when I feel passion. That is if passion is a combination of utter joy, frustration and rage. It's my life"

Coming back from a frustrating Snowboarding trip(powder wise, because the scenery, friends and experience was awesome) to the Chamonix region, I saw this amazing film. There expecting 80cm of snow this week, I should head down there again next week-end to ride the real thing.

British humor, too funny

The Art of War by Sun Tzu

Thought Audio Dot Com gives you The Art of War narrated free on mp3 so you can listen to it on your iPod, perfect for those metro rides where you are squeezed and can't read. This is the bible on warfare, its more than 2000 years old, check it out.

Cern Supercollider, the quest for the Higgs boson

It's almost ready, experiments are to start this year, here is a nice talk by Brian Cox on the beast.

Wingsuit evolution

Now this is adrenaline, I'm glad I haven't taken parachuting yet, cause this is the shit.



wingsuit base jumping from Ali on Vimeo.

Dakine Sequence Camera pack

This bag is just all you need to Ride and shoot. Got to put my hand on one.