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Olivier Thereaux

Archives: 2009

Derniers mois à Setagaya

2009-02-22

2006 ~ 2008. Un an exactement après avoir quitté Tokyo, je reviens sur mes souvenirs d'une ville où j'avais planté mes racines.

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Where the Children Are

2009-11-01

A movie review I was recently reading stated, in a tongue-in-cheek manner, thatAction movies are basically children's movies for adults. That is to say that they are expressly designed to hit very specific pleasure centers to generate a predictable and uniform reaction.

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Malacca, Malaisie

2010-03-04

Novembre 2009. Quelques jours dans le détroit de Malacca, entre gastronomie et histoire. Réflexions sur le tourisme, l'avenir de ce lieu en voie de développement, de destruction, de re-création

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Kuching, Sarawak, Malaisie

2010-02-27

Une semaine à Borneo

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Montreal circa 2009

2009-10-24

Fragments de vie à Montreal

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Accidents de mémoire - Accidents d'architecture

2009-09-09

Tu me disais «il faut se souvenir» et que les images y aideraient

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In praise of walking

2009-07-28

Walking is man's own, unique in the animal kingdom. Michel Serres, the charming thinker, rambles on in a gorgeous short podcast episode (in French) about how the walking pace, like the rhythm of the beating heart, is one of the most effective stimulants for thought.

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Ruskin and Slow Travel

2009-05-20

No changing of place at a hundred miles an hour will make us one whit stronger, happier, or wiser. There was always more in the world than men could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast. The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace.

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Bixi on the iPhone

2009-05-16

I'm too lazy to build a real iphone app over the week-end, but I wanted to prove that it doesn't cost tens of thousands of dollars to provide bixi users mobile access to the status of the stations. 30 minutes and about as many lines of python later…

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Being a Web Architect

2009-04-28

For the first decade I spent working in Technology and the Web, I never really had a Job title. My roles and responsibilities varied from project to project, and I never felt like a single title would do my work justice. So it is with a certain feeling of excitement that, in 2009, I signed for a job with a clear title: “Web Architect”.In hindsight and with a little honesty, I had very little idea what that meant.

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Have we stopped caring?

2009-04-02

One of my favorite recent pastimes has been the listening of TED talks. I can't express how much I admire this conference, the themes it tackles, the great speakers it secures, and the smart, smart move of making all the talks available for free on the web, booming its exposure to the world and making it a conference more people want to attend, not fewer. Chew on that, RIAA, MPAA and your ilk. If anything, TED should be renamed along the lines of “1000 ways to make the world a better place”, which would be much more fitting than “Technology, Entertainment and Design”.

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Hypatia and the Renaissance Women

2009-03-24

On the occasion of the first “Ada Lovelace Day”, which aims to highlight remarkable women in technology as potential role models for present and future generations of women, I started looking for the epitome of the “Renaissance Woman”.

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Zeal and the useless job

2009-03-18

I like the people working at my usual supermarkets. Nice, friendly, helpful people. I have a special fondness for the people, often kids, working on packing the customers' purchases into bags. That's a fairly dull job, quite likely awfully paid, and yet they do the job, and they do it well.

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The Myth of Travel

2009-03-15

Before the 20th century, travel was slow: months on a boat or on roads. Travel was the hardships of migration for most, formative fun for the well off, and adventure for novel heroes. Then came a century of wars and population displacement. But between those wars, a few strange things happened. The 1930s saw the invention of paid vacation, and thus, mass tourism.

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Framing the masterpiece, between the bus stop and the four white walls

2009-03-06

Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums. (Says Banksy)

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Open Source: the costly “free”

2009-03-02

For the past few years, I have been extremely lucky to work on some really wonderful projects, with millions of customers, a healthy user community, and a very good karma for the service they provide to the world. I've been paid to spend up to half of my time working on those projects. And yet, these projects never made a penny. I've been working in the strange world of open source / free software.

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The travelers’ dream of the Big House

2009-03-01

With a generation scattered around the globe, with friends from Oslo to Buenos Aires, from New York to Shanghai, I share a recurring dream. Not a month passes without hearing about that dream, or having it myself: living in one big house with all my friends, my family, all my loved ones.

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La Chambre Blanche

2009-03-01

I can't remember when was the last time I went to see a performance of contemporary dance. Probably never did. Theatre, sure, opera too – although I clearly spent more time in the last decade at museums or rock concerts than opera houses, I am equally comfortable banging my head in a muddy radiohead concert or swoon in the “poulailler” of Paris' opera for Le Nozze de Figaro.

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Synchronizing two instances of wordpress

2009-02-26

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Le froid des rues et la chaleur des autres

2009-02-27

Je sais la venue du printemps mais elle n'existe pas dans ce monde figé en hiver, saisi par les bourrasques de vent glacial. Comme un nouveau-né de Novembre, je ne connais que le froid, la laine, les joues rougies et les envies de soupe chaude.

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Tokyo en touriste

2009-04-09

En Janvier 2009, pour de vagues besoin administratifs, je suis passé par Tokyo, en presque touriste cette fois: séjour dans un Ryokan, pas un diner cuisiné par mes soins, et une semaine de re-découverte de certains quartiers sous une perspective différente. Une experience nouvelle pour moi qui n'avais jamais connu ce pays que comme immigrant.

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