as usual, good news does not come alone.
But today is a great news, built in Quebec, The Zenn is the first 100% electric car.
The weird part of the story is that the canadian government won't let it hit the shelves in Canada.
Best War Movie : Letters from Iwo Jima
This movie just came out yesterday, strange coincidence I was passing by the theater. This is pure Chef-d'oeuvre. I wish I could have understood more, but what I could understand was enough to make me learn enough about the story.
It's fully japanese movie, but has been produced by Clint Eastwood. So, it got this final hollywood touch. Fortunately without breaking the whole thing. Like Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) was way too much Holliwoodize. Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) Is excellent and tells us a 4-6 months story with a 36 days attack. An attack the US had planned to succeed in 5 days. On a off-topic note, it really seems the story is repeating itself when I heard yesterday Bush says that had not succeed as fast as they has planned. I'm not too sure what he believes he succeeded there. but as I said. I'm off-topic.
So the US was planning to get on Iwo Jima island to build a base and attack Japan's main island. Japan was already week at this moment, so US thought it would take only 5 days. this movies is so rough. and teach you so much about Japanese culture. It is very excellent.
Now I really want to watch Flags of Our Fathers (2006). Its "Letters from Iwo Jima"'s little sister. Basically, Clint Eastwood made two movies, one with the Japanese view and the other one about the US view. it's gotta be a Hit as well.
Wait no longer. Go Watch it.
Big Brother is my friend
So I am not gonna talk for 5 pages long about what is dangerous, good, bad or not about our new Big Brothers. But recently I have decided to be happy and to make people around me as happy as possible. And that means taking on services that makes my life easier for me and the people around me.
So that includes * writing whatever I am thinking about on a fully indexed blog. * Putting 98% of my pictures on the Internet without thinking too much about who can see what? (yes 98%, I still got a private life, what do you think....) * Using gmail as my #1 mail client and finally accepting the fact my emails are stored on someone else server. But hey, gmail CAN run fully under https (not like hotmail which only pass the login through https). That means that nobody can access my email, except me and Big Brother of course. * And Yes, that also includes keeping my budget and writing and tracking all my incomes and expenses on a website, online. But that again, it's password protected and only me can access my data. And well, Big Brother.
Discussion/Débat télé au Japon
Alors, j'écoutais la télévision il y a de ça quelques jours. Ils avaient un débat plutôt chaud incluant une trentaine de personne je dirais. Le type d'émission que j'avais déjà vu assez regulièrement au Québec.
C'est dommage que je ne pouvais pas tout comprendre. Le vocabulaire étant compliqué et le Tempo un peu difficile à suivre. Cela dit, le débat est demeuré des plus intérressants. L'expression des gens en dis beaucoup sur leur opinion et les différents niveau d'intensité que les gens emploie. Sur un plan communicatif, on en apprends énormément à regarder un débat comme celui-ci.
Mais encore plus intéressants, était les sujets. J'ai pris connaissances des deux premier sujets qui ont été traité. Cliquez le titre de cette article pour lire la suite de l'article.
Le premier auquel j'ai assisté traitait d'éducation. À savoir s'y le gouvernement devrais inscrire 'Culture en Ferme' à l'école primaire. Au départ, ça m'a paru un peu étrange. Mais par la suite, en y pensant un peu, j'ai trouvé ça vraiment brillant. Il faut savoir à tout d'abord qu'une grande partie du Japon est un peu, beaucoup, campagnarde. Que les jeunes d'aujourd'hui, comme partout dans le monde, avec la technologie s'intéresse de moins en moins à l'agriculture. Le Japon étant bâti sur des îles, le coup de transport, de poste et de livraison est assez cher. Et de toute façon, se nourrir de bouffe État-Uniennes et Chinoises. Non Merci!. Pauvre être-humain que nous sommes, à jamais nous devrons manger. Donc, pour le Japon et comme tout les pays, l'agriculture demeure crucial et pour balancer avec le manque d'intérets de la relève, quoi de mieux que de l'inscrire au curriculum dès la petites école. Tous les enfants aime joué dans la bout, après-tout.
Tout ce que j'ai dis jusqu'à présent me semple plutôt standard. Pratiquement tout le monde devrais avoir cette réflections assez rapidement, même si bon nombre de personne pu croire l'idée superflu et farfelu. Mais il y a autre chose à laquelle j'ai pensé. Je ne veux pas apporter d'idées noires mais faut quand même rester réalistes. S'il y a une chose que personne ne soit sur, c'est bien du futur. Personne ne peut dire quand une autre grande guerre éclatera, un catatlisme naturelle incroyable ou encore une attaque des martiens. Résultats? Le monde tel qu'on le connait aujourd'hui peu changer de directions à tout moments.
Plus de gens sauront être auto-suffisant et puisse être capable de se nourrir sans ressources modernes. Plus l'avenir de l'humanité sera assurer. À question que l'on souhaite toujours assurer l'avenir de l'humanité, bien entendu. (sourir)
Le deuxième sujet fut à propos, bien entendu de la Corée du Nord. Cela faisait en réalité un petit bout de temps que j'en avais entendu parler. Enfin, rien depuis qu'ils ont annoncé vouloir reprendre les discussions. Une certain personne à eu une autre de ces idées qui vous paraîtra possiblement farfelu.
Le Japon acheterait l'ensemble nucléaire de la Corée-du-Nord. Je crois que ce serait un choix judicieusement brillant. Après la deuxième guerre mondial, même si le Japon à décidé de ne plus faire la guerre à tout pris, ils ont quand même conservé et rebâtis une armé de défense. Sans parcontre avoir de technologie nucléaire.
Si le Japon laisserait les État-Uniens s'occupé du tout, ils demeureraient les quasi-protégé des État-Unis sans technologie nucléaire à eux. Même si la relation entre les État-Unis et le Japon est excellente, ce que les État-Unis décideront de faire dans l'avenir reste inconnu de tous. Surtout avec un prochain George Mc. Bush Jr. potentiel. Être un petit protégé à ses avantages, mais lorsque l'on a l'habitude d'être auto-suffisant et l'histoire empirique que le Japon possèede, être un protégé est plutôt génant.
Donc il font penser à long terme et être capable de subvenir à sa propre sécurité. Le Japon n'acheterais pas seulement leur technologie, leur savoir et leur matériel mais passerait également un accord afin que la Corée du Nord ne reconstruisent pas le tout aussitôt. Voir Jamais.
Pour la Corée du Nord, cette vente représenterait beaucoup d'argent qui aiderait le pays à se repartir du bon pied avec des idées, on l'espère, plus positive.
Is this art? what does it makes you think?
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My girlfriend is looking at boobies.
So I am working on my computer next to my girlfriend. From time to time she tells me "look". And there is this series of celebrities with big boobs on her screen. So I say "that's it, my girlfriend is looking at boobs on the internet". I thought "I really gotta blog about it." and she reply. "No, no, I'm looking at who got plastic surgery".
hahahhahaha, ain't it funny? where is the difference come on. when she told me that, I was really convinced I needed to share it with the world.
come on readers, how many of you have a girlfriend looking at boobs on the internet, hiding behind fashion's sakes?
So much professionalism from thoses Zencart programmer
diff -r admin-languages/english/password_forgotten.php ../worldshop/admin/includes/languages/english/password_forgotten.php
20c20
< // $Id: password_forgotten.php 1105 2005-04-04 22:05:35Z birdbrain $
---
> // $Id: password_forgotten.php 4347 2006-09-02 19:02:26Z drbyte $
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< define('ERROR_WRONG_EMAIL_NULL', 'Nice try mate :-P
');
< define('SUCCESS_PASSWORD_SENT', 'Success: A new password has been sent to your e-mail address.
');
---
> define('ERROR_WRONG_EMAIL_NULL', 'Go away gooberbrain :-P
');
> define('SUCCESS_PASSWORD_SENT', 'A new password has been sent to your e-mail address.
');
This is a diff between an english language file from zencart 1.3 to 1.3.5
Big question is, how many zencart user wants to call their customers "mate" or better "gooberbrain" when they enter a wrong password.
god damn
maybe even funnier, I was looking for a Japanese language pack on their forum. The files are available through a SVN repository. but the guy is too stupid to realize the files can be fetch using svn. and propose publicaly to everyone to download every single files by hand.. Next another very brave guy went and download them all and offer us a zip of his patient work. So kind of him.... Did I ever mention when do I think of patient program who does not care going the long way and not do thing properly. well its another subject I guess.
Later the first guy propose some windows software to downthemall
in five pages of forum thread nobody ever realize this was a SVN repository.
svn co https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/zencart-jp/zen-cart-v1.3-l10n-jp/trunk/includes/languages/ front-store-languages svn co https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/zencart-jp/zen-cart-v1.3-l10n-jp/trunk/admin/includes/languages/ admin-languages
Conclusion? go ahead, get yourself a shopping cart from one of those expert. They definitely have the patience to get the job done.
Interresting bit of Japanese.
I remember about 2 years ago I was reading an article about bonus and rewards in a company. And how this is the worst management idea ever. As it might push your people in the butt for a bit, in the long term, you might lose core element of your team. Why? because there is no difference between a Bonus and a Punishment. And as much as the winner is happy to go home with his bonus, everyone else feels punished as they did not received it. And this is BAD.
Of course in Japan, there are also companies with bonus system. No one escape to the temptation. but where is this interresting bit I found? In the language. shoubatsu (賞罰 / しょうばつ) in Japanese means both rewards and punishment. I found that very interresting that early in the conception of the language they thought of this concept as one single thing.
It remembers me also the verb kiku (聞く / きく) means both to hear/listen and to ask. How many people asks questions and actually never listen to the answer? How common is that. Well, if you ask for something you algo gotta listen. In Japanese this is again one single meaning. So in english, instead of saying "May I ask you something?" You could say instead "May I listen something from you?" Which might sound a bit weird but should in fact communicate better more what you are about to do.
just thought It might be interresting to share.
typhoon and other natural catastrophes
As some of you might already know, Japan has been hit by a typhoon this weekend. The typhoon travelled from east to west on the pacific ocean, hit kyushu, the southern most main japanese island (ie: excluding okinawa), causing a train to fall on the side and killing three people. Then it travelled north into Japan see and stayed away enough from Japan to not cause anymore trouble. but how strong was the wind, crazy. definitely my first time watching something like this. I don't know how much time I spent looking through the window at the wind and the clouds going. You know sometimes you can see clouds moving and you can predict in which directions they are going? well, that night you definitely did not need to be a psychik. The clouds were going FAST. it was very impressive.
later on in the weekend we started installing poles on top of furnitures. the pole goes from the top of the furniture and touch the ceil. It prevents furniture from falling down during earthquakes. never saw one of those either before. clearly, Japan as way more natural catastrophe than Canada. I know nobody likes it, but I'm excited to see everything.
And after seeing what Japan did over the past years to recover catastrophe, I think we should all get more of those, remember how week we are and how strong we need to hold on to each other.
