Monday, December 15, 2003

welcome to the blog!

welcome to the newest members of the blog!
Emmanuel, Antoine, Sebastian, Pierre, Jean-Francois, etc...

I've made you all "administrators" so you can also invite and approve other members and add links to the template!

A good class on Wednesday! And a very good vacation and holiday season! Merry and Happy,

james

remember to add "BlogThis!" to your browser's menu bar or favorites list to make it easy to add things to the blog!

knowing weather is so important !

Imagine that tomorrow you've got to go to Bucharest or to Stockholm or even more far. Should you take an umbrella or skis ? I've got the answer, it is the weather forecasts. Why not this one ? It is Meteo France: http://www.meteo.fr/meteonet/temps/monde/prev/mondew.html

Sunday, December 14, 2003

Just a little game

Have fun with this one :-)

Need a Dictionnary ?

If you don't have a dictionnary, then this site www.dict.org is for you.

Wednesday, December 10, 2003

what's on rebecca's portal?

what's on rebecca's portal?

BBC World Home Page

BBC World Home Page this is what we saw in class

Everything about first names

If you want to know where your first name comes from, or if you want to know how many people have the same first name as you in france, just go to MeilleursPrenoms.com.

For example, the most popular first names in france are Jean for men (1.329.909 men have that name in 2000) and Marie for the women (1.349.090 women have that name in 2000) !

Welcome to Sequence Two

Sequence Two...

welcome to sequence two ... today we'll have our first class and will define what will happen in our next 5 classes of the sequence.

I hope the blog will be a useful team-blog for all of us to use.... (all of us!)

james

ps... i've tried to set the blog so it sends email messages to all of the class members (netclass@supelec.fr) whenever someone posts... let me know if this works!

Friday, December 05, 2003

Mairie de Paris-Education- Envie d'amphi
This looks interesting.... "How to create your own company" is one of the lectures at the ENST on Saturday morning!
It's just too bad that it's all in French! ;-)

Sunday, November 16, 2003

Let them sing it for you Interesting sound based site!

Wednesday, November 12, 2003

This is a collection of tongue twisters from all over the world.
Very useful if you are learning a new language ;o) - English translation for all of them except the English ones
Have fun !
1st International Collection of Tongue Twisters
James, could you please give me the address of the dictionnary site, with the pronounciation of the words ? I forgot it, and this a shame since I don't have a dictionnary here in Supelec !

Thanks by advance.

Tuesday, November 11, 2003

Here is a link toward a funny site. It lists a series of english mistakes that have been made on different translations of signs or instruction manuals. It sometimes gives them funny meanings.
Tell me what you think of it !!!
http://www.engrish.com/
David

Wednesday, November 05, 2003

If you're afraid when you are connected on internet and you want know all about security, this site is for you:

http://www.securiteinfo.com

Nicolas
lecielestbleu.com : equus here are the horses! or are they donkeys?
sodaplaymore music!
lecielestbleu.com more horses..... and giraffes too! james
MIT for free, virtually | CNET News.com

Sunday, November 02, 2003

Don't forget it next friday evening...
Make horses sing ;-)
I like your "stupid" website Arnaud ! How long did you stay with the button pushed ?

I made a bad time...

Claire.

Wednesday, October 29, 2003

Here's a site for all linux newbies : The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux.

Quite interesting when you search a software for linux.
http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/alcohol/alcohol.jsp?id=ns99993619

This is an interesting article about 'Irish Coffee'!

Benoît

Tuesday, October 28, 2003

Why VoIP is music to Kazaa's ear |CNET.com
What Kazaa's founders are up to now!

Monday, October 27, 2003

I had a doubt about this, but many different sources seem to confort it (courrier international, reuters, sciences-et-avenir, http://www.aegis.com/news/re/2003/RE030815.html, some other on-line newspapers)
It's about Science and Bush in America. A bit frightening, but seems to be true. If you have more information about this, please tell me...
This link leads to webpage about ingerence of Bush in American Science, I shall precise that redactors of the report presented are mainly issued from the Democrat party (Bush is a Republican).

http://www.politicsandscience.org
--
Jean-François

Wednesday, October 22, 2003

Shaker-Diffusion
A web site where you can buy music for Dj's. The interesting thing here is that you can listen to the music you are going to buy and that you can find the latest songs.

Sunday, October 19, 2003

Stats Toolbox: Statistics The latest statistics about the internet... numbers of users, etc.

Wednesday, October 15, 2003

Thanck you JF for the site you advised us to visit (www.understandfrance.org ): it is effectively a quite interesting one. Bye Louis
Rhapsody Gets Real RealNetworks competition for the Apple music store....
Esoteric languages & obfuscation
some inspiration for a group that would like to talk about the history of hacking... james