• Love Dogs / Love’s a bitch (Amores Perros), 2000, by Alejandro González Iñárritu
• And Your Mother Too (Y tu mamá también), 2001, by Alfonso Cuarón (Mexico)
• Habana Blues, 2005, by Benito Zambrano (Cuba)
• Strawberry and Chocolate (Fresa y chocolate), 1994, by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
• Frida, 2002, by Julie Taymor

• Madagascar, 1994, by Fernando Pérez
• Life Is to Whistle (La Vida es silbar), 1998, by Fernando Pérez
• Little Tropikana (Tropicanita), 1997, by Daniel Díaz Torres
• Guantanamera, 1995, by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
• The Waiting List (Lista de espera), 2000, by Juan Carlos Tabío

The Business: an english title looking like The Godfather with british spice from the 80’s. The off-voice naration might be annoying sometimes, and some plot are really easy, but the movie is still enjoyable.

Broken Flowers: a great Bill Murray road trip across US, with a funny jamaican neighbor trying to help him in a quest for his old girlfriends. The end of the movie is really disappointing. Great soundtrack too, don’t forget to download it!

De battre mon coeur s’est arrété: Seen twice this year, enjoyed twice, great french movie to be seen again

Habana Blues: On the latino movie trip from Christine, here is the first catch. Some great mood to start with, but not really convincing after the middle of the movie as people are starting to be predictable (and so the end of the movie).

By Train

Plan long battery charge on all your leectronic equipments.
Quiet environnement really work firendly. Avoid compartiment seats, not table on front seat provided (unless you prefer to work on your laptops).

By Plane

Not really work-friendly, and because most of flights are shorts (2-3 hours max. in Europe), the best is to enjoy the show by the ‘hublots’.

Visiting family and friends

Prepare yourself to have a double-day. Start working before everybody wake up, and have a few hours working session when others go to bed.
Visiting working people can be great to keep working following your friends working scheme (and sometimes try new kind of working hours).

Few steps to make it work

• Be sure about internet connection, ask your friend to get information about how it’ll work;
• Find a confortable place where to put your computer;
• Make your home network available for SVN commiting, and check VPN access.

Can be really expensive if not really well planned, as everything else.

• single: 2.1€
• daily: 5.8€
• weekly: 25€

Credit Cards

They are not working everywhere (only shops), it’s better to have cash in the wallet all the time.

Life tips

Beers and eating-out are really cheap.

At disco, when you take a bottle drink, they’ll give you a token. Bring it back with the empty bottle to get your deposit back.

Link to event info.

Here is the program I had the time to plan for the first day, hope this will be available on the net soon:

• 10:30: Who Can You Trust? with Tim Pritlove and John Perry Barlow.
• 11:30: Room 2 event has been deleted from timetable…
• 12:45: How To Design A Decent User Interface to improve my wonderful catastrophic ability to design UI, or Know Your Citizens in case non-coder Christine was joining.
• 14:00: The Grim Meathook Future, I think it was the event planned at 11:30.
• 16:00: Privacy, Identity, and Anonymity in Web 2.0
• 18:30: The gift of sharing

There’s probably a lot of other great conf on schedule during this event in the following days, just have a look at the timetables to know more about this.

• Adaptive Layout Technique: last article from A List Apart that describes a technique to adapt your layout on the client screen resolution. This would be commonly used in coming months, bye bye fixed layout for developper/contractor screen setup;
• Rails Rubyisms Advent: a simple day-by-day tutorial to learn new small tips in Ruby;
• Rails Advent Calendar: another advent calendar from RubyInside.com to ruby developpers, with a link to some interesting screencasts from the San Diego Ruby User Group.

• Chaos Theory: A simple chain reaction game. 3 clicks to finish the game;
• iSketch: Dessinez c’est gagné on the web, with french room to play with correct vocabulary;
• Bendito machine: Not a game, just a super great animation;
• zWok!: Excellent worms-like online with multiplayer gamplay and profile to upgrade. Days to waste here;
• Nest of Moai: Just for fun. First level is a bit hard, but humour is present in the rest of the game;
• Line Rider: Draw a line to make your slider ride his ludge. No goals, create your own, like “the biggest just ever” or “as many loops as possible“.

There is another game with a kind of spaceship drilling earth to get metal, going back to surface to buy fuel and vaious upgrade. If someone can find it for me, I’ll be grateful.

It’s a bit the opposite of ‘Humanity saves time‘ philosophy, but hey, we all love games.

• Meeting again Christine after not seeing her for 2 years
• Trip to Tenerife for Hifi workgroup
• Having a half-hour walk every morning to go to work
• Lots of picnics in Toulouse parks
• Dreaming about being late at work, and waking up as a new Freelancer
• Making cakes every week
• Learning that my brother and Sandra are married
• Discovering the powerful color of flowers on a macro-photo
• Learning how to make simple origami, and having some boxes full of them to offer
• Buying 2 20Go Ipods for my birthday, one for Joan, one for me
• Offering a Threadless 12 month club subscription to Joan
• Building my own home network under a Linksys WRT54GL routeur, and a real server (SVN, Wiki, VNC, VMWare, …). Really geeky but wanted this for years!
• Hosting Fred for a few days in Toulouse, with all the needed ‘kick your ass’ reflexions he came with
• Learning Zen with Adam Watts, and feeling dizzy or really light sometimes discovering the power of life

Today, I’ve discovered a tool that will save few hours of my life, just to build HTML/CSS grid layouts. Simple, elegant:

http://blog.davglass.com/files/yui/grids/

YUI is a nice “2007 tech” challenger. Enough of all these homemade hack to have a Javascript working on IE-Firefox-Safari. 2006 was the year of Web 2.0 JS packages like Script.aculo.us, moo.fx or Lightbox, let’s see what will happen in 2007.