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Re: Sounds Like A Nice Place To Live

brem — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 17:02:42 -0000

In Georgia state:
http://www.thealmightyguru.com/Pointless/Cities...

In Quebec:
http://dylan.mikrotron.com/Gallery/2004.09.07_P...

heheheeh

Re: Direction Informatique Au Quebec Utilise Seesmic Pour Un "Pitch"

brem — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:41:11 -0000

Tu n'as qu'à utiliser un clavier canadien-français pour clavier QWERTY avec accents. C'est facile, c'est qu'un petit truc à modifier dans Windows :-)

Re: ZADI DIAZ

brem — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:24:09 -0000

How did you stumble on that?!
brem

Re: ZADI DIAZ

brem — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:06:04 -0000

Cool.
I just really did not expect to hear her on your blog!

She built up a small hype in Quebec... It all started with her myspace page...

:)
Happy holidays

Re: Speedlinking: October 19, 2006

brem — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 12:24:51 -0000

I find IE7 to not handle graphics too well. IE6 wasn't too great either... more to come...

Re: Absentee Ballot Record

brem — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 15:52:51 -0000

Your elections are mighty complicated in the US...

Re: Why Advertisers Still Don’t Get It

brem — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 17:04:36 -0000

This is unrelated, but one thing I never understood is how some advertising companies hold on to their ads branding copyright laws when they are being copied and distributed. That's the basis for viral marketing. Why should they care that the most people see their ads? For free.

Re: Why Advertisers Still Don’t Get It

brem — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 16:21:51 -0000

Both type of salesmen are needed. You need to do blind advertising, and without knowing what a potential customer needs, suggesting can sometimes pop ideas in the customer's head. However, I believe, like Aaron says, that for more straightforward type of entrepreneurs, it's not the best approach.

Like in anything, one size certainly doesn't fits all.

Re: Spam Issues (or why Akismet isn’t proving worth the money)

brem — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 20:25:52 -0000

Last week, I've been spam attacked. Almost 1200 spam comments in about 2-3 hours... that jammed the comments table in my mysql database, but didn't shut down the blog, fortunatly.
I use Akismet with Bad Behaviour, but I've also noticed an increase in spam that go through the filters.

Re: Post Ad-Tech, Post-Election post (or How Many Times can Post be used in a Subject?)

brem — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 15:42:42 -0000

The time when the president had a free lunch is over. That's a good thing, like you said.

Is there free Wi-Fi connections throughout LaGuardia?

Re: Post Ad-Tech, Post-Election post (or How Many Times can Post be used in a Subject?)

brem — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 16:01:18 -0000

Not too bad. But still quite pricey.

Our local airport is now offering free wifi throughout the terminals.

It doesn't have the same traffic as NY though. Still, it's a pretty cool thing.

There's a couple of projects around the city to have free wi-fi "hot spots". Nice initiative.

I hope the wait is not too boring. ;)

Have a nice flight.

Re: Post Ad-Tech, Post-Election post (or How Many Times can Post be used in a Subject?)

brem — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 17:42:04 -0000

Carol: the thing though is that the U.S. is responsible for the Iraq mess, so it's its duty to fullfil its committment. Leaving Iraq the "vietnam way" is not the solution as a regime of warlords, such as what exists in Afghanistan and much of Africa would arise. And that would be very unfortunate.

Re: Post Ad-Tech, Post-Election post (or How Many Times can Post be used in a Subject?)

brem — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 11:09:03 -0000

At least if 50% of the US population is not happy with the election results, you can rest assured than a much higher figure of people are relieved throughout the whole world.
Thanks for establishing some kind of watchdog. Even if it's almost 5 years too late. ;)

Re: Looking to Move (Again)

brem — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 03:40:07 -0000

Hart: here in quebec city, we say Winterpeg ;)

But we get our fair share of snow, don't you worry.

Good luck, Aaron.

Re: Darren Does Canada

brem — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 14:29:06 -0000

It's not freezing yet. Plus you're in TO... it's warmer than everywhere else in Canada (minus Vancouver).

More pics!

Re: You Thought You Knew Me, but You Didn’t

brem — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 17:46:38 -0000

rotflmao at #1

Re: You Thought You Knew Me, but You Didn’t

brem — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 17:58:29 -0000

Negative. But I would pay to see them hit on you live. :)

Re: You Thought You Knew Me, but You Didn’t

brem — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 12:37:31 -0000

I second the comment about Atlanta airport, although I don't know the story behind it.

Re: When MySQL Bugs Bite

brem — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 15:10:49 -0000

True that.

Re: How Would You Like A ‘Bitch Slap’?

brem — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 03:16:01 -0000

rip off faster pussycat kill kill. no interest.

Re: He really is the terminator

brem — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 22:25:53 -0000

Problem with that is some criminals are experts at cunning and faking it. The art of deception and manipulation is not unknown to most of them...

brem

Re: Sounds Like A Nice Place To Live

brem — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 17:02:42 -0000

In Georgia state:
http://www.thealmightyguru.com/Pointless/Cities...

In Quebec:
http://dylan.mikrotron.com/Gallery/2004.09.07_P...

heheheeh

Re: Le Web 3: Recap

brem — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 15:31:58 -0000

À cause de sa critique de Loïc? Pas gloups ça.

Re: Le Web 3: Recap

brem — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:25:33 -0000

Ouais, j'ai lu ensuite. Ça semble être un conflit de personalité entre Arrington et Sam que le "asshole" de Loic a fait éclater au grand jour.

bah...

Là je trouve simplement que Loic est trop silencieux...

Re: Ce soir, Bloggy Friday

brem — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 11:35:42 -0000

Tiens, nous aussi c'est aujourd'hui notre bloggyfriday :P

La prochaine fois on se le fait en duplex? :D

Re: BlogCamp: Multilingual Blogging Session

brem — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 10:48:34 -0000

I'm one of the courageous twos :)

nice blog entry. I might blog about this... when I get around to it :)

Re: Video: BBC Interview (Teenagers, Facebook)

brem — Mon, 21 May 2007 12:35:15 -0000

There are much more effective ways to stalk on your kids...
(pyscho music).

Nice to hear your voice :)

Re: Amanda “unBoomed”?

brem — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 14:46:15 -0000

I suggested her to take a couple of weeks of vacation to clear her head of all theses things... I've experienced an unhappy departure from my workplace a few years ago, and I know how mixed up one can feel emotionally.

When she comes back online, she'll rock.

And be it on podtech or anywhere else, she'll be fine.

In the meantime, let's wish both Andrew and Amanda the best of luck.

brem of martinbreton.com

Re: “Sometimes a courtesy flush is necessary”

brem — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 23:37:31 -0000

I think plumbing is very geeky.

Re: Why Ozzie doesn’t think the Web is the be all and end all

brem — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 12:51:07 -0000

Robert: I loved and hated Outlook.

I loved it for its integrated feature with mail, appointments, post-it, etc.

I hated it for it's awkward dialogs, especially for options... you know... go in options, advanced options, advanced options options, parameters tab....

I hated it...for having integrated that virus called Visual Basic For Applications...

That was a good enough reason for me to NOT use Outlook outside of the corporate world.

Re: Why Ozzie doesn’t think the Web is the be all and end all

brem — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 12:53:59 -0000

Oh, and about the main topic, to me Second Life is a cute gimmick. :)

Re: McLaws is right on Windows Vista ship date

brem — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 03:12:56 -0000

Cody, MS is not designing Vista with you in mind, obviously, and their market is mostly "everybody else"... ;)

Re: Blip.tv hooks up with CNN for your videos

brem — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 10:08:47 -0000

blip.tv doesn't have embedded feature, or does it now?

Re: Big conferences are dead…

brem — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 10:09:40 -0000

what about all the booth babes?

Re: Big conferences are dead…

brem — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 10:44:08 -0000

When the NAB conference dies, I'll believe it.

Re: Big conferences are dead…

brem — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 10:48:54 -0000

http://www.nabshow.com/

Re: Big conferences are dead…

brem — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 10:52:47 -0000

John: That's not why these conferences are held. They are held because there is an exhibition attached, and it's an opportunity for face to face contact with possible customers, clients, business partners. That's all, and all of them being in one place is very convenient and cost effective.

Conferences are only an added value. Should they not be held, no big loss in my opinion.

Re: Videoblogger jailed

brem — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 20:04:57 -0000

Isn't that fighting for the sole principle? Cause honestly, what else does he have to win in keeping these videos from the feds?

Or rather, what does he have to lose?

Re: Time lists its 50 coolest Web sites

brem — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 21:38:18 -0000

I don't even know one fifth of these websites... congratulations to cute overload for making the cut. :)

Re: HelloWorld to take on YouTube? Nope says “BlinkTest”

brem — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 13:42:26 -0000

Sites like Atomfilm and iFilm are 5 years behind as far as ease of use is concerned. Why do we have to click on a button for a popup to appear then choose our preferences, over and over again, then watch ads, for a mere 30 seconds video?

Re: Blog reading tips

brem — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 22:05:38 -0000

Don't subscribe to too many blogs or your life will suffer would be my tip. :)

Re: The blog counting game

brem — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 22:52:47 -0000

The most number of blogs doesn'T really matter to advertisers. What they want is a high number of quality, high traffic, niched blogs.

Re: Why my ego never gets out of control…

brem — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 01:44:23 -0000

You know what, before I started blogging, before I knew of the word "blog", I would say "webpage". To me, all blogs were simply webpages, with a chronological list of articles, and comment enabled.

So in the perspective that static webpages aren't blogs, all blogs are webpages, but not all webpages are blogs.

Re: E-Frontier, where is your tech support?

brem — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 13:10:03 -0000

He could basically just get the crack. hehehe

We had a similar problem where I used to work. We had bought a legit copy of Maya (can I mention it? :) ) but could never get pass the overboard security features. There is a password, serial no., a serial "dongle", a server keeping track of how many copies are running, etc.

Needless to say, we never got it to work through "legal" means. However, with the crack, it worked wonderfully. hehehehe

brem

Re: OK, OK, I was wrong about blogging

brem — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 13:15:19 -0000

You're such a wimp Robert!!!!!! :)

You need to hold on to your opinion, defend it for God's sake!

Agree to disagree, but don't just give up!

I for myself, disagree about syndication being necessary for a website to be called a blog, however, I must admit that a blog without syndication (some blogspot/blogger ones, for instance) start with a strike insofar as I'm concerned. Basically, I have so many blogs I am subscribing to, that if a blog doesn'T have syndication, I just forget them due to the sheer amount of other blogs I can read more easily.

I do believe you could have added "comments" as well, as a 6th criteria.

Maybe this need to be some kind of "if you meet at least 4 of these x criterion, you are a blog" kind of thing. What do you think?

chicken... pok pok pok lol :)

Re: Photo walking with Thomas Hawk

brem — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 11:10:43 -0000

Zooomr's logo is strikingly similar to Flickr's.

Re: Microsoft fights for its reputation, where’s Apple and Google?

brem — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 11:13:29 -0000

I think their strategy is "don't put oil on the fire" in hope the fire will extinguish by itself.

One thing I don't understand is why computer graphic artists are worshipping macs. I could understand in the 80s. not in 2006.

Re: Microsoft helping Firefox team?

brem — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 11:17:17 -0000

Somehow, it doesn't compute in my mind. Unless MS wants to ditch IE eventually... or base it on Firefox in a future iteration.

Re: Microsoft helping Firefox team?

brem — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 11:53:34 -0000

Tim: I fail to see how helping Firefox get better will help the IE team. I can see how it can help MS as a whole, but that's like fixing the roof of a house while the foundation is rotting. If you catch my drift.

:)

Re: Microsoft helping Firefox team?

brem — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 14:33:20 -0000

Robert: doesn't the IE team resent their "bosses" for courting with Firefox? Surely the manager cannot be too happy about that.

Re: Feedless bloggers frustrate

brem — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 15:41:06 -0000

duly noted.

Re: Where’s Google in the conversation?

brem — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 17:54:39 -0000

I have to agree with J that at least Google understood that quality matters quicker than Microsoft did.

Re: Where’s Google in the conversation?

brem — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 19:09:14 -0000

What about Google earth, Google maps, etc.

They are top notch apps.

Re: First 16 hours of IE 7 RC 1

brem — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 12:43:54 -0000

A good thing with the new IE7 RC is that it is more W3C compliant than the previous version.

However, what ticks me off is the Microsoft attitude, as we can see through this sentence taken on the msdn blog:

http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/08/22/712...

quote: « The only way for us to continue to improve our standards support is to get your help in changing your sites for IE7.»

well, why don't you guys just respect the already established standards? Then we won't have to change our sites for IE7.

Sheesh.

Typical. :)

Re: First 16 hours of IE 7 RC 1

brem — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 18:04:54 -0000

what ticks me off is that pompous attitude of telling other what to do. If anything, why doesn't this website I referenced to tell people to read xhtml books and render their websites w3c compliant? No. Instead, they say: make sure they work for IE7.

Well, if it's news to the IE7 team, Safari is already pretty W3C compliant and Firefox is pretty darn good at it too. IE7 should have been compliant by now. This is to show how slow moving Microsoft has become. Innovation? no. Renovation. :)

Re: Ex-Rocketboomer partners with PopURLs

brem — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 21:35:47 -0000

Robert, I must admit I had no idea what Amanda would be doing at popurl. she had to explain it to me on her blog. Shaky press release, but hey... it's only a press release ;)

Re: Ex-Rocketboomer partners with PopURLs

brem — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 11:27:22 -0000

Robert: in life, not everything is about maximizing and profit.

Well, in my life it isn't.

Is that why I'm poor? hehe

Re: Yes, Amanda, we’re watching you!

brem — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 20:02:40 -0000

LayZ: You're being mean.

Scoble: I agree with your comment.

Re: Blogger says “it’s OK to steal, if they use RSS”

brem — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 20:03:33 -0000

Right on.

Re: I thought Google was a search company…

brem — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 07:33:43 -0000

I've never really trusted Google to be the search engine with the most up to date data. Technorati is blog oriented, therefore, when I want to know right now what happens on the blogosphere, that's where I'll head to.

Google acquiring Technorati? Would be a sensible move. Maybe Google could straighten the loose part of Technorati. Namely a shaky reliability of their database.

Re: Bloggers have a double standard when it comes to Google vs. Microsoft?

brem — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 13:21:49 -0000

I remember when .NET was very fuzzy. Yet, people didn't really buy the hype.

It's a real art to sell vaporware.

Re: HP has major ethical problem, day 3

brem — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 12:05:51 -0000

HP has had ethical issues since their very beginning, stealing patent ideas from inventors.

Re: Is this Amanda’s next big video project?

brem — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 21:16:42 -0000

I hope she doesn't stay in the U.S.A... Canada exists too!

Re: HP has major ethical problem, day 16

brem — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 14:43:22 -0000

Why doesn't the board members just leave with a huge bonus? (sarcasm intended).

Re: ScobleShow post mortem (wow, Ask blog search rocks!)

brem — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 11:03:45 -0000

Hey, I'm not on the list of future interviewees :( hehe

How about the Zeeeeeeeee ?

Re: Google acquires YouTube for $1.65 billion

brem — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 16:51:34 -0000

Billions... not Millions...

I so wish I had started YouTube myself now... *sigh*

Re: Google acquires YouTube for $1.65 billion

brem — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 17:08:20 -0000

So what's your take on Cuban's opposite view? Where is he wrong? :)

Re: Google acquires YouTube for $1.65 billion

brem — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 17:33:25 -0000

Robert: I agree with you (I don't know about Cuban being jealous or not... I know I'm jealous of his millions personally hehe).

Basically, I see it as Google deciding not to keep investing tons of money for Google Video becoming "better" than YouTube, an almost impossible feat in a short term period, so basically, it meant lots of investment for a "possible" future return. With the buy, they secure both teams. For now. Basically, it was a choice of where to put the money. Google Videos? YouTube. No brainer here.

Now, I don't know about numbers. Is it too much? well... when we go beyond millions, it's kind of hard to grasp value. Don't you agree?

If I was a YouTube employee or owner, I'd feel damn great today.

Re: Microsoft’s search a lot better than it used to be

brem — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:50:56 -0000

No.

Microsoft is then what... 5, 10 years behind still?

Plus, Microsoft has a tendency to want to cram as much info in a page as possible, whereas, Google has a minimalistic approach.

For me to switch to ANY other search engine, it would have to offer something more, which it doesn't.

Plus, Google is the defacto standard. Nobody cares about other search engines anymore.

Re: IE 7 just released

brem — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 20:11:33 -0000

(or not) ;)

Re: Firefox vs. IE 7 (IE7 having trouble with Google sites?)

brem — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 15:46:32 -0000

Security flaw:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20061019/tc_pcw...

Re: IE 7 just released

brem — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 17:45:05 -0000

It does on the IE7 I just downloaded 15 minutes ago.

Re: Google reverses course on Ze Frank

brem — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 10:03:55 -0000

Google is getting too big for its own good. It is stumbling with its own policies. Time for a swipe?

Re: New audience metric needed: engagement

brem — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 11:50:35 -0000

whoa... one of your best posts in a long time.
indeed, it's hard to parametrize an audience, but I think engagement is definitly something to be measure more accurately for marketers.

Re: Apple blogger calls "bullshit" on me

brem — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 16:05:37 -0000

exactly. it's their business. too bad for them and apple users. It's their choice in the end. Who's to tell who's right or wrong?

Re: Why I love Maryam

brem — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 12:43:15 -0000

ahw...

Re: In TechMeme for only 50 seconds (Update: or more)

brem — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 19:32:24 -0000

When a single individual starts to decide for the masses, isn't that what we call an autocrat? :D

Re: Why bash Microsoft and not Nokia?

brem — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 10:29:22 -0000

I'm such a whore, give me goodies!!!1

Re: Raising a stink doesn’t bring the traffic

brem — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:30:48 -0000

Maybe you saturated your niche.

In any case, send some traffic my way if you feel so enclined ;)

Re: Best recovery from a failing demo

brem — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:32:37 -0000

Don't you hate when that happens.

Won't people learn to try their stuff beforehand? :)

Re: Best recovery from a failing demo

brem — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 16:13:22 -0000

Robert: Most technical issues can be dealt with if you run tests on-place.

I understand it's not always possible to try before doing a "public" demo.

However, when you plug and pray, Murphy's Law is usually about to strike.

And might I add, especially when it comes to Computer Vision (my field of expertise), the environment you use the equipment with is very important. A change in the use of fluorescent (blue tinted vs. red tinted for example) can result in the algorithms to not work anymore.

Anyhoo... their stuff is neat nonetheless. ;)

Re: ScobleShow goes to Seattle and Vancouver…

brem — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:00:36 -0000

Say hello to Darren Barefoot from me.

Re: From farts to diamonds

brem — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:24:05 -0000

Why don'T they use the diamonds piling up in the vaults of that company... you know... THAT company.

Re: PIRATE D'AMOUR

brem — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:24:35 -0000

La série est un peu inégale, je trouve que leurs suspenses de fin d'épisodes est trop souvent cliché, mais à chaque semaine je veux voir l'épisode, donc ça doit avoir un certain sex-appeal.

Ça n'accotte pas les Sopranos ou la 1ere saison de Dexter, ni Californication, mais c'est mieux que bien des séries.

Enjoy

Re: 1. Outils de campagne : Des partis et des tâches

brem — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 17:07:58 -0000

Tu es donc devenu membre de tous les partis? :) Que va dire l'impôt pour tes déductions? :)

Re: Question, monsieur le DGE…

brem — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 20:28:01 -0000

Le débat des chefs n'a rien à voir avec le DGE, c'est avec le consortium des diffuseurs.

Re: 2. Outils de campagne: La langue des élections

brem — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 01:54:03 -0000

Les anglophones ne font pas partie du débat, parce qu'ils votent Libéral, par défaut. L'ADQ aurait tout à gagner à faire connaître sa plate-forme à la communauté anglophone, mais il aurait fallu qu'ils y pensent avant. Moi-même, ayant un blogue bilingue, je dois dire que ce n'est pas évident, surtout pour l'infrastructure requise pour soutenir les deux langues. La solution la plus rapide qu'ils auraient dû faire c'est de carrément faire un 2e site, et traduire tout. Mais pas une mince entreprise. Cependant, l'ADQ va concentrer ses efforts sur le région de Québec, et ici, la communauté anglophone est bilingue par obligation, donc on ne fait pas d'efforts pour leur fournir de la documentation en anglais.

Re: Suivre le débat en ligne, ce soir

brem — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 22:49:21 -0000

Ouf, pas facile... ça va vite un débat.

Re: Solde électoral

brem — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 15:08:32 -0000

Les trois partis ont choisi le même style de campagne? Il dormait les dernières semaines lui? :)

Re: Cyberpresse .ca ou .com ?

brem — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 16:25:26 -0000

http://cyberpress.com/ est aussi squatté.

Comme quoi un 10$ c'est un gros investissement pour ces grosses boites lourdes et bureaucratisées.

Maintenant, ça va leur coûter combien pour récupérer le nom de domaine?

Re: Un dollar, c’est un dollar!

brem — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:31:12 -0000

Quand j'avais 8 ans, on chantait: 1 cenne américaine vaut 2 cennes!!!! :)