Currently browsing category

General

“the road to Hell is paved with good intentions” – and other news

It’s been a long time I haven’t blogged, and I do plan on going back to it. I was thinking to migrate this blog from WordPress to a static site, but some events prompted me to post here earlier than I was initially expecting. First, a few words about me …

Introducing a new fork

Today, on the 25th of March 2015, my wife and I have the pleasure to introduce a most beautiful and the most amazing fork to date. And when it comes to forks, you can trust me. Introducing Vallerand James Gerhard Schulz, our newborn son. May you possess strength, wisdom and …

Je Suis Charlie

Go to the website of the newspaper here.

Brendan Eich, the bigots, and Software Freedom

Last week we learnt the news of the resignation of Brendan Eich from his position as CEO of the Mozilla Foundation/ Corporation. The controversy on Brendan Eich’s donations to opponents and campaigns against same-sex marriage ultimately prompted the inventor of Javascript to resign from the position he had just been …

Back in Paris

Today, as we’re back in Paris since a few days only we decided to go out and enjoy the afternoon in the Latin quarter in Paris. This is the boulevard St. Germain seen from the 3 Magots Café. We don’t get to go there that often and play tourists with …

Out and Forward

As you can guess from this picture, we are moving and tomorrow’s te big day. The truck will arrive early morning and take our belongings in a bigger place in Paris. It’s been a real work to pack everything but we are happy to move into our new place and …

On keeping a name relevant

“Moved by Freedom – Powered by Standards”. This blog has been going on under that title for quite some time; since September 2007 exactly. I ran an older blog without the same name and title. These days, I’m still in the ODF development and promotion in various capacities, but I …

Hommage to Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa, an immense poet from Portugal has written texts and poems I deeply enjoy reading. I thought I would be paying a small hommage today. In his poem “O Bandarra” which is part of the famous suite “Mensagem” (Messages) he writes about a Portuguese national figure, Bandarra. But oddly …

Seagulls (nothing subliminal here)

If you were expecting a post on the LibreOffice 4.0 release, well this one is not quite about it (I’ll post something on this topic later on this month), but I just wanted to share this short film on this blog. It’s called seagulls, and while there’s “nothing subliminal about …

%d bloggers like this: