Mental notes to myself

I’ve just finish checking this years roster for PHP Quebec Conference 2008.
The list is quite good. Lots of interesting sessions, some not-so-really-php sessions. But this year, there is no Rasmus
I’ve always found him interesting to listen to and inspiring. It’s quite interesting to see what challenges he’s seeing at Yahoo.
Between the lines, he gives a lot of tips. Is it just me who likes him talking ?
I’m sorry that he’ll not be in Montreal this year. Maybe he didn’t like the food last year lol.

I was reviewing the formula 4C + V + P = Web 3.0

This is what I think:
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I’ve just read a post about the goatse man can cause you get a jail time in the US for posting it on a board or site with a fake title. I’ll not link here the infamous photo here sorry

Here is the related US code:
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Reading this interview is a really good start to monday morning.
The questiongs are directed to the well known and not so well known programmers.

Linus Torvalds – The Linux kernel author
Dave Thomas – Author of the Pragmmatic Programmer, Programming Ruby and other great books about programming. One can read his mainly programming-related thoughts here.
David Heinemeier Hansson – Author of the Rails Framework – the new hot web development framework. He has a weblog here.
Steve Yegge – Proably the least known from guys here, but also made one of the most interestings answers, has a popular weblog about programming. He is also the author of a game called „Wyvern”.
Peter Norvig – Research Director at Google, a well known Lisper, author of famous (in some circles at least) books about AI. See his homepage.
Guido Van Rossum – The Python language creator
James Gosling – The Java language creator
Tim Bray – One of the XML and Atom specifications author and a blogger too.

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Silently Bell Sympatico updated their terms and service affective by the May 15,2006 but all the news papers and Slashdot figured it out now a days.
Paragraph 17 of the terms and conditions of Bell Sympatico Service, it says:

User Information; Other Information. Your messages may be the subject of unauthorized third party interception and review. An individual with Internet access can cause, among other things, damage, incur expenses and enter into contractual obligations while on the Internet. All such matters are your sole responsibility. Your Service Provider has no obligation to monitor the Service, any content or your use of Your Service Provider’s networks. However, you agree that Your Service Provider reserves the right from time to time to monitor the Service electronically, monitor or investigate content or your use of Your Service Provider’s networks, including without limitation bandwidth consumption, and to disclose any information necessary to satisfy any laws, regulations or other governmental request from any applicable jurisdiction, or as necessary to operate the Service or to protect itself or others.

That means they’ll tell you to the big brother if you download mp3s from your favorite bittorrent site.
Also by talking to friends I learned that all the ISPs in Canada doing the same thing already but Bell is the first ISP to announce it on their ToS.

Something new is coming around.
flock is the new thing ppl talk about. It seems like a full-of-interactivity social bookmark site.
Also a teaser-article is here too.

Blogs blogging and more…

Technorati’s article about all. Worths reading.

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I was one of the guys who really liked Cisco products etc.
I even got the CCNA courses. However this news is not something that I can put together with Cisco.

A researcher followed through with a presentation on a security hole in Cisco’s IOS even after the network equipment company theatened to shut down the conference if the information wasn’t suppressed.

Also:
video of the cencorship : here
and the presentation on Cisco bugs which was removed from the books are here.

After watching the Longhorn- RSS and Browsing Teams 1 hour video, I was so amazed. At first it was something really unexpected from Microsoft. Supporting RSS at OS Level? Having APIs for RSS? Is Microsoft approaching to the open source guys by supporting RSS deeply?

Days passed and I see the things much clearer.

After reading this passage, you’ll understand the Microsoft way and Microsoft’s idea about computers and computer users (plus developers). The question you should ask to yourself is “What is an Operating System?”
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A new website is coming up.

It seems like a nice idea derived from Flickr.
Flickr has a nice idea to organize photos. You can organize them as sets.

Howabout a photo site for your travel photos that you create sets out of it… It’ll surely create a community around it. I hope they market it well.
Here are some screenshots.