Archive for May, 2008
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Storytelling is what politicians use to set the agenda of agenda-setters. Communication Advisors engineer plans to CONTROL what is said about their boss in the media. That is they voluntarily feed positive stories about their boss to the media and the latter, innocently, depicts the intended image.
An example, according to Envoyé Spécial, is the romance [...]
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
C’est le mystère. Personne dans la tribu ne comprend ce qu’il se passe. L’Oracle a reçu une invitation VIP pour assister à la finale de la compétition de danse « La Fièvre du Mardi matin. » Petite précision au passage, contrairement à ce qu’indique le nom de la compétition, la finale a lieu le samedi et [...]
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Bloooooppppp!
Electric Power cut at about 1145am, today!
Whole DCDM was in the dark and some mins after, we learned that Accenture was also without electricity, got confirmation from Mantasha n Yasmina…At first. i thought DCDMC didnt pay electricity bills.
But when i learn Accenture also, experienced this black out, then, i said to myself, Accenture didnt pay [...]
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Have you heard about Musiquey?
If not, well, this site’s concept is quite similar to Skreemr. You can search for a song / artist then listen to the song, really cool
But hey, aren’t there download links for the songs on that screenshot?!
Well actually that’s almost right, except that they do not yet “officially” allow [...]
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
One of the (minor) recurrent problems i ever had with linux involves special characters such as é, è, à, ç and so on using my QWERTY keyboard. Indeed, as someone who must very often type in french, these characters are almost vital!
Having been raised the windows way of doing this (alt + 130 [...]
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
I will be really happy if some one among you could help me.
Since some time, there are 2 particular adsl users who keeps on swearing on my blog.Each time I have to let their comment as unapproved. But I’m fed up with this..Any way to know to whom does those IP belong to?
Anyway..Love sucks..Been heart [...]
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
Virtual reality technology is progressing rapidly thanks to advances in computing power and graphics, and some researchers believe a “Matrix”-style world where it is difficult to distinguish the real from the virtual is right around the corner. “We’ve reached a level now where we can make very realistic images: Five to 10 hours to make [...]
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Saturday, May 10th, 2008
Wow, that was fun but tiresome!
As every 3 months, DCDM Consulting organises a different Company Event for the staff, and this time, it was called “DCDMC Orienteering Challenge”, held at Domaine Anse Jonchee, near Ferney in the south-east.
Preparations have been going since long, with me sending mails to all staff to make them remember [...]
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Saturday, May 10th, 2008
Homard et langouste se traduisent tous les deux par lobster en anglais. Si vous voulez éviter toute confusion, traduisez langouste par rock lobster.
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The translation for both homard and langouste in English is lobster. If you want to avoid any confusion, you can use rock lobster when translating langouste.
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Saturday, May 10th, 2008
While watching the news recently, the speakerine mentioned that the main reservoir of the island is only 60% of its capacity, while at this period of time, it should be around 84%. When interviewed, the chairman of the CWA commented that we did not receive enough rain to fill in the main reservoir. That is [...]
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