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20081013 ArchiveTOGAF Certification Course Completed this week This week I completed a TOGAF 8.1 Certifcation course. This means that I should be TOGAF Certified in the coming days. This is the second Certification I pass this year after the ITIL Certification (Thank you IBM!). TOGAF is about Entreprise Architecture and it's a fascinating topic. I'll blog about the highlights of this TOGAF course soon. TOGAF Certification Course Completed this week This week I completed a TOGAF 8.1 Certifcation course. This means that I should be TOGAF Certified in the coming days. This is the second Certification I pass this year after the ITIL Certification (Thank you IBM!). TOGAF is about Entreprise Architecture and it's a fascinating topic. I'll blog about the highlights of this TOGAF course soon. TOGAF Certification Course Completed this week This week I completed a TOGAF 8.1 Certifcation course. This means that I should be TOGAF Certified in the coming days. This is the second Certification I pass this year after the ITIL Certification (Thank you IBM!). TOGAF is about Entreprise Architecture and it's a fascinating topic. I'll blog about the highlights of this TOGAF course soon. Foot sur la plage de De Haan, ce 28 septembre 2008 J'ai uploadé sur Youtube une vidéo d'une partie de foot filmée sur la plage de De Haan ce 28 septembre 2008. Je joue avec avec Thomas et Jonas (rencontré sur place). Fortis... J'essaye de ne pas dire de bétises sur le cas Fortis mais je n'ai pas su me retenir de commenter le post suivant sur le blog "Je suis Belge mais je me soigne": http://francoisquinqua.blog.lemonde.fr/2008/09/29/fortis-et-puis-maintenant-dexia/ Reading Playmobil books on the Web with the FSI-Viewevr I just received an Information Letter from PlayMobil where they propose me to have a look at a book about Egypt : "Découvre l'Egypte". This book is rendered using a technology that I have seen for the second time and that I find very interesting : FSI-Viewer. Those guys found a way to put flyers in a browser. It's much better than the traditional pdf (which is never in Landscape and always in Portrait, obliging you to scroll). Have a look here : http://download.playmobil.com/public/eCS/Store/befr/egypt_booklet/index.html I like it ! Portal or RIAs ? Two days ago, with a colleague, we had an interesting discussion around the future of Entreprise Portals. Today in a SOA, Services are consumed by consumers like Fat Clients (Lotus Notes for instance) or Thin Clients (via a Portal). The arrival of Web2.0 technologies like Rich Internet Applications (RIA) like Google Calendar, Google Docs ect will puzzle this architecture. At IBM we already have two examples with Project Zero and Websphere Business Spaces. A Portal product is than no more necessary for consuming and exposing services in a browser. What becomes than the role of a Portal in the SOA ? Probably it becomes a provisionning and security platform for RIAs and Mashups. At the security level, it means offering an Identity and Access Management platform. At the provisionning level it becomes a place where you can search for a mashup, configure it and use it immediately. To show you an example of what a website/portal can become with RIAs, you can compare my server side "Portal" http://www.jfdeclercq.com/ with a "RIA Portal" version of it : http://www.netvibes.com/jfdeclercq If you start using Netvibes you will understand how you can mix content on your own page using Widgets. Those widgets contain their own application logic (Gmail, Google Notes, Flickr, Twitter, Facebook....). Netvibes doesn't own the widget's code like a traditional Websphere Portal would. Therefore the future of Traditional Portals like Websphere Portal is to provision those kind of Widgets in a secure way. Chuck Norris, c'est plus fort que toi Vous savez pas tout ce que Chuck Norris sait faire ? Allez voir ici : http://www.lowas.be/index.php?pagename=ChuckNorris Vlerick Event : How Social are you ? Last week we (Mireille and I) went to the Vlerick Marketing Alumni Event : How Social are you ? The evening was about a marketing approach on the Social Networks and Online Communities. Robin Wauters started with an Introduction on Social Networks. I didn't learn much on that introduction (maybe I know already too much) except that the groups that exist on different networks like Facebook are a target for Marketeers. So creating or using social networks is now the objective of good marketeers. Pieter Goiris (CEO Boondoggle) showed us how the Heineken Music site to illustrate how brands try to engage in a give & take relationship with online communities. By the way this website is a wonderful Mashup (Stoemp) ! Web2.0 is also about involving the users to make the content. It's the case of Sensoa, a Flemish website where people can ask all questions about Sex. Luc Colson of 4C Consulting explained us that in a Social Network, three kind of people are very interesting for the Marketeer : the people with most connections within a group (Let's call them "Leaders"), the people linking independant groups to each other ("Connectors") and people on the path between the two profiles ("Relays"). The "Leaders" would allow to influence the group. If the Leader has an excellent experience with your brand, others will know it. "Connectors" allow to transfer the brand experience from communities to communities. "Relays" are a way to accelerate the transfer from Community to Community (they connect the Leaders to the Connectors). Those concepts are for instance exploited in the Telecom sector to enforce operator loyalty and reduce the risk of churn. Steven Van Belleghem (Insites Consulting) gave me the best impression. He explained that Marketeers have to understand how the new technologies can impact the way branding works. Marketeers have an important challenge to learn surfing on the web2.0 advertsing wave led by FaceBook, Google... There is a change of paradigm going on. Before the Marketing equation was the following : Advertising ... Brand ... Sales Today the chain is the following : Brand ... Advertising ... Conversations. The goal of the marketeer is to land in the conversation zone. Consumers need to talk about the product, advertsing is not enough anymore...This session gave me a better idea on how marketeers think about Web2.0. I see it as a great way to discuss with people and a great technology at the same time. I see the promise of the semantic web. They see segments, focus groups, communities, conversations, advertising... Note 1 : For the Vlerick Alumni people, that kind of event is the best rather than just have a beer, let's also have some content. Note 2 : From web experts websites, I'm not always impressed : 1) I hate the Boondoggle's website (try searching Heineken in it...), and 2) how is it possible to have an URL like http://www.4cconsulting.com/Templates/home.aspx?id=32&langType=1033 when you know the following principle : "Good URLs never Change" Photos of the Pecha Kucha Brussels Vol 5 The quality of my pictures isn't good but it's just to remind some of the bla bla... The Picasa Album is here : Pecha Kucha Brussels Vol 5 Listening to The Lounge Box If you like the Lounge music that you hear in the Fashion Stores of Brussels or Antwerp (joke), why not give it a try with this CD : The Lounge Box  It's a very nice box. You have 5 CDs of relaxing music. Very Nice. I want the new IRex DR1000 When I posted "Will I buy an ePaper reader or not yet ?", I commented I didn't want because there was no A4 and search function. But recently IRex has released the DR1000SW. I think I'm going to buy it ! Have a look here: Samsung Omnia Night On Sept 11th 2008, we attended the Samsung Omnia night. The party was not as good as the last one but there was more content : the presentation of the new Samsung Omnia. The Samsung Omnia is a great MulltiMedia device (Music, Video, 5 MegaPixel Camera, GPS, MS Office Integration, Push Email...). It also has a touchscreen like the iPhone. If I had to choose between the iPhone and the Omnia, I think I would choose the Omnia because it's more compact and Windows Mobile 6 would allow me to install more custom applications. However I still have a phone with a keyboard (Samsung SGH I600) and I'm not convinced about the Touch screen yet.   A terrace in Belgium  Do you guess where it was ? Watching the Champion's League tonight Yesterday when watching the Champion's league, I found very funny that when eventually the best french players are performant, they score against a French club. Malouda and Anelka have killed... Bordeaux. I have seen Elephants in Antwerp Cher Guevara De Gordel This weekend we did De Gordel, a bicycle tour around Brussels. Our goal wasn't political but rather sportive. We did 120 Km. The tour of 100 Km makes in reality 106Km. As we left and went home by bike we did another 7Km. Also, I had a flat tire in Meise and the assistance truck brought us back to Wemmel, it added 7Km to the trip. The organization of the Gordel is excellent. If you have a mechanical problem, a truck brings you to a repair centre. The people of VAB repaired my bike, I had nothing to do do except pay the inner tube. The weather was horrible in the morning : rain, rain and rain. Only in the afternoon after more than 60 Km it stopped and we could enjoy the tour a bit more. The parcours is not very difficult. I expected more climbs. In fact, the most difficult part is between Zaventem and Overijse (Vossem, Duisburg) and that was the last part for us. Or was it the most difficult because it was the last ? Perception is reality... De Gordel was our main bicycle objective this year and we are quiet happy we did it ! We will do it again.  PS : Is it politically correct to blog about De Gordel in English when you are a native Walloon and and live in Flanders ? De Gordel This weekend we did De Gordel, a bicycle tour around Brussels. Our goal wasn't political but rather sportive. We did 120 Km. The tour of 100 Km makes in reality 106Km. As we left and went home by bike we did another 7Km. Also, I had a flat tire in Meise and the assistance truck brought us back to Wemmel, it added 7Km to the trip. The organization of the Gordel is excellent. If you have a mechanical problem, a truck brings you to a repair centre. The people of VAB repaired my bike, I had nothing to do do except pay the inner tube. The weather was horrible in the morning : rain, rain and rain. Only in the afternoon after more than 60 Km it stopped and we could enjoy the tour a bit more. The parcours is not very difficult. I expected more climbs. In fact, the most difficult part is between Zaventem and Overijse (Vossem, Duisburg) and that was the last part for us. Or was it the most difficult because it was the last ? Perception is reality... De Gordel was our main bicycle objective this year and we are quiet happy we did it ! We will do it again. PS : Is it politically correct to blog about De Gordel in English when you are a native Walloon and and live in Flanders ? According to all known laws of aviation... According to all known laws of aviation there is no way a bee should be able to fly: A bees' wings are too short and their bodies too fat. (Bee Movie) Obama : How to seduce America using sales techniques ? How to seduce people so they vote for you : address their concerns. Obama addresses several key concerns of 2008 : "I do want three things," "I want to end And I believe indeed Americans are concerned by those
So to be successful, just address your client's pain points. A well known sales technique applied at a large scale. Good job, Mr Obama... ScribeFire If you blog often I recommend you to have a look at ScribeFire. It's an excellent FireFox Plugin which helps to write or edit your posts. It allows to include Videos, Links, images in a easy way. It also supports multi-blogs. Druivenfeesten in Overijse This week is the week of the DruivenFeetsen in Overijse. Up to now we mainly took the opportunity to go to 2 concerts:
Insignifiant Comment peux-t'on être ambitieux si on compend que à l'échelle de l'Univers, l'Humanité est insignifiante ? Comment peux-t'on penser que le bien ou le mal que l'on fait a du sens ? Comment peux-t'on penser que notre travail mérite autant d'importance ? Pourquoi doit on conserver notre planete alors qu'elle disparaitra avec le soleil dans quelques milliards d'années ? Pourquoi écrire ces lignes qui sont destinées à disparaître de toutes facons. L'énergie de cet Univers doit vraiment avoir envie d'exister... Internet Radio Lately I have hesitated to buy a new kind of device : an Internet Radio. It connects on your WiFi router and plays thousands of radios streams that you can catch on the web. Today I just plug my portable PC into my HiFi system using a mini-jack, but I find the quality is not so good. Therefore I have been looking for better options. Here are some products I find interesting :
For the moment, my favorite Internet Radios are :
Quick CV I don't know if you have ever had a look at my long CV but it's quiet a long one. I have read in a article (in Bizz I believe) that a good CV should be at the most 3 pages. Therefore I have tried to rewrite my CV in a much shorter format . I have organized it along 5 aspects of my work that I like and that I want to continue to develop during my career:
I have been Itilized I have successfully passed my ITIL V3 Foundations Certification ! ITIL is a framework which allows IT Managers to standardize the IT processes which aim at satisfying the demand of their system's customers and/or end-users. In order to meet customer's needs, ITIL organises the lifecycle of IT Services which are delivered by IT. The IT department can supply several types of "services", for instance :
ITIL V3' service life cycle defines 5 "steps":
 Cycling in Limburg and Kempen Last Weekend Last Weekend we did quiet some cycling in Flanders. On saturday we did the "Limburgse Rivierenland" tour in Halen. It was supposed to be 52 Km. We did 63 and we even did a shortcut at the end. On sunday we went to Herentals and we followed what is called the "EcoCyclo". There the KM were correct and it was 46 Km. We started from Herenthout and we used the following "KnoopPunten " : Herenthout - 45 - 46 - 47 - 9 - 10 - 8 - 15 (Let op: we rijden niet volledig tot aan 15. Neem een kijkje aan de watermolen. Het is een waardevol monument. Daarna keer je terug naar 8.) - 19 - 18 - 14 - Hidrodoe - Van Hidrodoe rijd je terug naar de knooppuntenroute. Sla echter niet af naar links richting knooppunt 14, maar blijf rechtdoor rijden. Volg de pijltjes richting Centrum. - 12 - 60 - 62 - 65 - 66 - 43 - 44 - 45If you search Biking Roads in Belgium I stongly recommend you this website http://www.fietsroute.org/. Mise à jour du site de Paul Leroy Le site Internet pour Paul Leroy se trouve sous mon nom de domaine. Nous y travaillons de temps en temps en buvant un bonne bière. Nous l'avons mis à jour cette semaine:
Made with Slideshow Embed Tool Quel est le con qui a changé skynet ? Moi j'aimais bien skynet pour la météo facile a trouver et facile a lire pour les prévisions à dix jours. Il y avait une colonne bleue à gauche avec toutes les possibilités skynet dont la météo. C'était facile et efficace. Evidement il y a quelqu'un qui a trouvé que c'était mieux de changer. Essayez maintenant d'aller sur http://www.skynet.be/ et trouvez-moi la météo. Bonne chance ! Comme dirait l'autre : "Si je connaissais le con qu'a fait sauter le pont..." Thinking : Am I a Rain Maker ? Merriam Webster's dictionary defines rainmaker as "a person (such as a partner in a law firm) who brings in new business or whose influence can initiate progress or ensure success." In short, a rainmaker is someone that makes things happen, someone who initiates action that ultimately brings in new business and revenue. Rainmakers take a 'big picture' view of their customers business. Rather than focus on specific IT projects, they look at the overall state of the client's industry, company and LOB. Some characteristics of a rainmaker include the following: pro-active, results-oriented, patient, driven, conscientious, good listener, active listener, empathetic, sympathetic, curious, knowledgeable, engaged, confident, incisive, inquiring, flexible, visionary, creative, positive, optimistic, and collaborative. 4 Recent Music CDs If you want the artists you like to continue to produce, you have to support them. Here are the 4 latest CDs I have bought :
 Make Clouds with Wordle Something I found by accident yesterday : Wordle. Wordle draws a tag cloud for you from a text or rss feed. I let it run on my CV and here is the result :  Than I run it on my delicious tags :  I like it. Francois L embrouille en parent d eleve Dans cette camera cachee, Francois L embrouille se fait passer pour un parent d eleve et piege un professeur d'histoire geographie. Il raconte qu il est a fond dans les jeux video et que lui et son fils jouent des heures et des heures...
François L?embrouille en parent d?élève Dans cette caméra cachée, François L?embrouille se fait passer pour un parent d?élève et piège un professeur d?histoire géographie. Il raconte qu?il est à fond dans les jeux vidéo et que lui et son fils jouent des heures et des heures san
François L?embrouille en parent d?élève Dans cette caméra cachée, François L?embrouille se fait passer pour un parent d?élève et piège un professeur d?histoire géographie. Il raconte qu?il est à fond dans les jeux vidéo et que lui et son fils jouent des heures et des heures san
François L'embrouille en parent d'élève Dans cette caméra cachée, François L'embrouille se fait passer pour un parent d'élève et piège un professeur d'histoire géographie. Il raconte qu'il est...
François L'embrouille en parent d'élève Dans cette caméra cachée, François L'embrouille se fait passer pour un parent d'élève et piège un professeur d'histoire géographie. Il raconte qu'il est...
François L'embrouille en parent d'élève Dans cette caméra cachée, François L'embrouille se fait passer pour un parent d'élève et piège un professeur d'histoire géographie. Il raconte qu'il est...
François L'embrouille en parent d'élève Dans cette caméra cachée, François L'embrouille se fait passer pour un parent d'élève et piège un professeur d'histoire géographie. Il raconte qu'il est...
François L'embrouille en parent d'élève Dans cette caméra cachée, François L'embrouille se fait passer pour un parent d'élève et piège un professeur d'histoire géographie. Il raconte qu'il est...
Party @ the Pool Party @ the Pool Party @ the Pool Party @ the Pool Party @ the Pool Using Google Maps to prepare my bike tours I use Google Maps to prepare my biking tours. You start by adding your starting-point than you plan your itineray by clicking on "Add destination". See an example here of the bike tour I just did tonight. I like the Yahoo! Widgets You have different Widgets systems that you can use on your desktop : Vista Gadgets, Google Deskbar... My preferred one is the Yahoo! Widgets. Have a look here (or click on the image):  The widgets I use are ImageView, Yahoo! Weather, Yahoo! Mail Checker, Gmail Monitor, Digital Clock and Calendar. I can be a blonde too Today I took pictures without the SD card in my Camera... Result : no picture taken. Je ne suis pas à l'Euro Euro 2008 : What is your favorite team ? As for the last World Cup, Mireille and I make our best guesses for the Euro 2008. We both selected 3 teams that we think can win :
List of all mountain bike routes in Belgium Maybe it can sound weird to you but it has been a long time I have been searching for that information and now I eventually find it : a good list of existing mountain bike routes in Belgium. You can find it here : http://www.mountainbike.be/algemeen/routes.php StumbleUpon : Sorry to all my contacts Yesterday I sent an invitation to join StumbleUpon to all my Yahoo! contacts. It was not my intention, it was a mistake from me. I want to apologize for having spammed you ! Nevertheless some of you (about 10) have joined StumbleUpon, I'm very grateful for the trust. StumbleUpon is really a cool system and if you actually use it we can exchange what we find cool or interestig on the web. So, once again sorry for the spam... Why are we here ? What matters in life ? On the right colomn of my "In JF mind today" blog, You'll find a question I want you to respond in a poll : What matters in life ? Why are we here ? Take 20 seconds to answer. Closing of the poll at the end of the year... Will I buy one ePaper reader or not yet ? What do you think if you have a look at this video of the ePaper version of Les Echos ? I think it's just great. If you add that you can use the Iliad as a Notepad (you can write also!), that you can upload PDF documents like reports, Presentations... It makes of it a great business tool. I'm really hesitating : Should I buy it ? There is an interesting package with l'Equipe for this summer. SOA stays a top business priority in 2008 According to an IBM survey SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) is still in the radar of the majority of customers:
Vibstars - le Web2.0 Belge Hier je suis tombé sur le blog de Christophe Lefevre. Il s'y trouve un article sur le métier de blogueur. Mon regard s'est porté sur la colonne de droite (toujours la colonne de droite) et j'y ai trouvé un badge qui m'était inconnu. C'est un badge de vibstars. Vibstars Vibstars se définit comme une plateforme de SocialBuzzing. Ma perception est que Vibstars prend le meilleur du social bookmarking, du buzz à la Digg ou Scoopeo et du micro-blogging à la Twitter. Intéressant même si je ne vois pas encore comment l'utiliser concrètement. Je pense qu'il me faudrait plus d'amis dans mon réseau. C'est plus intéressant que Twitter car on peut lancer des conversations autours de sujets qui pointent clairement sur un URL. On peut aussi voter, cela fait émerger les dicussions les plus populaires. Mon profil est ici : http://vibstars.com/wall/316-jean-francois-declercq. Vous avez tout de suite une idée du nombre de membres... Blogasty Continuant ma découverte des développements de Bleebot, j'ai également découvert Blogasty. Blogasty est un digg-like dédié aux blogs. Cela permet de re-poster un article de votre blog vers la communeauté Blogasty. Les autres membres peuvent voter pour votre billet et si celui-ci est populaire il arrive en Home Page. Voir A propos de Blogasty. Du Web2.0 belge Blogasty et Vibstars sont deux plateformes Web2.0 dans le plus pur style et par ce billet je voudrais féliciter leurs createurs. Et en plus, c'est du Belge... Google doesn't find himself There is something I find weird on Google's site. I often use Google Maps. If I type http://www.google.be/maps/, than Google returns a 404 error page because the page doesn't exist. The correct page is http://www.google.be/maps without the '/'. But wait a minute, if I search for anything in Google, it seems to know what I mean : "Did you mean ?" But apparently not in the case of an hazardeous Google Maps URL on their own site... They could maybe reroute the 404 page to "I'm feeling lucky" with the url as parameter ? N'essayes pas de faire le bien Hemingway a ?it ?Dos Passos : Au nom du ciel, n'essayes pas de faire le bien. Continue ?montrer les choses telles qu'elles sont. Si tu r?sis ?les montrer telles qu'elles sont r?lement, tu feras le bien. Si tu essayes de faire du bien, tu ne feras pas le moindre bien, pas plus que tu ne montreras ce qui est bien. Extrait de Odeur du temps - Jean d'Ormesson. A m?ter pour les experts comme moi... Ou se trouve notre valeur ajout?en terme de conseils aux clients ? David Vendetta Bravo to the Netherlands I have been involved in several activities with professionals from the Netherlands those last 3 months.
And finally if I add today's EURO2008's match against against Italy (3-0) ! I'm very close to dress in Orange. But not yet, don't worry. Critical Thinking I was doing my daily blog reading when I landed on Slideshare. On the right column there is a list on the most downloaded slide sets. I was attracted by a presentation on Critical Thinking. This is the conclusion : Why bother with Critical Thinking ? "We are currently preparing students for jobs that don't yet exist, using technologies that haven't yet been invented, in order to solve problems we don't even know are problems yet" Web Presence The website of Carmelo Zaccone gave me the idea of making a list of all the sites I use on the web. I ordered them by preference in three categories : Social Networks, Blogs & sites and Instant Messaging. My list counts more than 20 addresses. I use the top 10 on a very regular basis. You can see the result here : Social Neworks. Technorati Quick Claim EUROFERIA 2008 Yesterday night we had a drink at Euroferia 2008. A very pleasant Andalusian atmosphere that I recommend you if you don't know what to do this weekend.  Creating the best context for creativity After a course I followed given by MoTiv (http://www.motiv.tudelft.nl/) by Ton Meijknecht and Hans van Drongelen for IBM, I would like to share some concepts and reflexions on Creativity. The creative class The work of Richard Florida and his book 'The rise of the creative class' (note I haven't read it yet) aimed at demonstrating that a new class has emerged in today's society. "The creative class is a group of people that social scientist Dr. Richard Florida, a professor and head of the Prosperity Institute at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, believes are a key driving force for economic development of post-industrial cities in the USA." (See Wikipedia) The people of the creative class have special demands against their work environment : soft control, more independence, personal growth and development, freedom to shape the content of their own work, control of their schedules (flexibility), expression of their identities through work, able to trade job security for own autonomy. The creative class is also looking for another kind of lifestyle : individuality, self-statement, acceptance of difference, desire for rich multi-dimensional experience, pack every second - at work or leisure- full of creative stimuli and a morphing conception of time - (mixture of work and play). The creative class asks questions about what really matters in life. The thesis of Mr Florida is that the creative class is the main driver of economic growth. Do I belong to the creative class ? I have the feeling I belong to the creative class : I think I have the above characteristics. Another argument that makes me think I'm a member of the creative class is that I feel the tension that would exist between members of the creative class and the corporations. A tension starts to emerge between large corporation and the creative class. Their motivations are not compatible anymore. However the corporations need the creative class for their innovations. The result is a war for talent and a lot of talent retention programmes. But it doesn't prevent that creative people step out of the companies and create a new startup or even make management buy-outs. In one of my previous posts (Allergic to Superficiality ), I was criticized by some anonymous comment and today I understand why. The person who criticized me is certainly not someone of the Creative class. It's someone who is a Coporation's soldier and who has a lot of respect for the traditional way large companies can sometimes operate. He is attracted by the dark side of the organization's power game and has respect for people who are able to climb the matrix to the top by stepping on the other's dead bodies. Who is creative ? Everybody can be creative. Being creative requires however some conditions : you need some talent and this talent needs to be put in the right context. Talent has three different levels : skills, mastering and tolerance. We are used to identify our skills and define how well we master them (beginner, advanced, expert, master...). How to be even more creative ? By knowing why. In addition to skills and mastering, tolerance is required for the most creative ones. Firstly, If you are not able to make use of the diversity of our world by being more tolerant, you will be less creative. Secondly, tolerance also means compassion and the possibility to solve problems for others. This tolerance aspect also touches the deepest motivations of our creativity. Why do we want to be creative ? What drives us to create solutions ? Why did Einstein want to find out new rules like the relativity rule ? Creativity and Spirituality It seems that a fundamental drive (some beliefs, some spirituality) is a necessary condition for superior creativity and innovation, meaning that you will be most creative if you align your entrepreneurship with your own spirituality. I can link this to one of my previous posts around Happiness defined by Axel Khan : All creatures on this earth will be happy if they can express their true nature. "Connais-toi toi même"... You can only be a superior creator in the fields that match your true nature. Being creative, just as being happy requires freedom. Freedom allows to move in order to be the right man at the right place at the right moment. This is why creative people want to be independent and travel the world : they don't want to be blocked in their vision of how they can improve what matters to them. They don't want to miss the chance to maximize the impact of their creativity. Cycling around the Veerse Meer (Netherlands) This weekend (May 31st 2008) we did quiet some biking. On saturday we did 50 Km in the region of Terneuzen. The Westerschelde between Terneuzen and Hoofdplaat   The nature around Terneuzen  On Sunday, we did the tour of the Veerse Meer, starting from Veere (70 Km). The Veerse Meer  Veere  The windmill of Veere  MyBlogLog is exactly what I expect as website I had been a while since I had visited my MyBlogLog account. I'm quiet impressed by the improvements : you can now link all your web accounts into MyBlogLog and it makes a kind of summary. Excellent. It continues to be a question for me: why maintain a website while all of the programming that I do (php, mySQL, Wiki...) is now available for free (Yahoo! Pipes, Mashing up my content in Netvibes or MyBlogLog...) ? Don't you think this MyBlogLog page ressembles my start page ? I must really like mySQL and php to keep my own developments... New : Read what I read You may have noticed a new green column on my start page. It aims at showing you which articles I found interesting in my daily Netvibes reading.  Technically it's again a Yahoo! Pipe (see the pipe here). They are just too easy to use.  I should re-publish a new picture on how I make my website because it has changed a lot these last months.  |
