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And pic-a-week is finished

June 11th, 2011

As you have noticed, there has not been any PAW posts in the last few weeks.

I just ran out of things to post, and didn’t see any picworthy thing while on the streets, so instead of taking pictures such as “look, my cat sleeping!” i thought it would be better to call it an end.

I’m thinking of doing a “tune a week” after, but I know it will be way more difficult to keep on, so that will have to wait for a period during which I feel a bit more creative than now. Probably after the summer!

See you soon for more random stuff.

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[PAW] Ducks

May 18th, 2011


Here are some ducks. I just took this picture while running in the forest. That’s all. No time to write today ;)

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[PAW] QR codes are fun

May 11th, 2011

Here is one that wasn’t made with my phone. Actually, it COULD have been made with my phone since there are j2me apps for that.

So, WTF is this? It’s a QR code. They are not yet widely used in Europe, but in Japan you can see them all around, used for lots of different purposes. The most usual one is easily opening an URL on your phone.

The thing works by taking a picture of the code with your phone, previously equiped with a QR application (iNigma or Linkee if you use a j2me phone, Android and iPhone users, check your app providers) and waiting for the application to decode the image.

The image will then provide you with the encoded text, or redirect you to an URL if that’s what was encoded. This image above simply contains the url of this page, http://ice-wind.be.

Maybe I’ll do some mini-games with these in the following months… just have to polish the idea ;)

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[PAW] Gonzo went to the racetrack

May 2nd, 2011













This week I’ll try to cover for last week’s lack of pic. I guess being on holiday really messes up with the usual schedules, so I simply forgot about last week’s post!

But this week has a great batch of pictures instead ;) .

So what’s it about? As you can read in the title, this weekend was the “Renault World Series” at the Spa Francorchamps racetrack. I went there for the day, and it was quite nice actually. The races were quite fun (although you see way better on TV), with different kinds of cars.

Also, and that’s what you will see on the pics, there were TONS of Renault cars exposed all around. The new models of course, but also several oldies quite well preserved and a bunch of tuned ones too.

The track is great, the landscape beautiful, the day was sunny with a blue sky all day long… Nice. That’s all. They call Spa Francorchamps “le plus beau circuit du monde” (translate as “the most beautifyl racetrack in the world”), and I do think they are right.

See you next week with something else!

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[PAW] Ad oldies

April 19th, 2011

Ow crap, it’s Tuesday!

See what happens when you take a week off? Monday comes, and it just looks like another Saturday, and Tuesday looks like another Saturday too, ’till the real Saturday comes, since… there is no working tomorrow, ow-yeah! But of course, since I didn’t see Monday coming, there was no pic uploaded. My bad.

Well, the pics were indeed taken on time, when I went down at midday to get lunch with a few colleagues. I saw that orange bike-car-thing and told my colleagues “hey, can you move aside? I need a pic of that bike for my blog”, to which my colleague answered “which bike? “. I thought it was quite obvious, since it’s flashing orange etc, but he just didn’t see it.

We just walked a bit more, and there was that green bus. End of story.

I guess that there will be quite some other pics taken from events at work, since it’s kinda an exhibition center, so stuff happens quite often.

See you next week!

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[PAW] The geek is thirsty

April 11th, 2011

Welcome to my fridge. You have the usual “try to eat and drink healthy”stuff, and then… Geek-cans!

Don’t ask me where I got these, I don’t have a clue. My wife (always thinking about her favorite geek) saw these and knew I’d love to try them. She was right ;)

The PacMan one is already gone, and it tastes a bit like RedBull. The other one seems to be a derivative of OpenCola or FreeCola (Don’t remember the real name), I’ll give it a try one of these days.

Well, that’s it for this week. See you next time!

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[PAW] When tuning goes wrong

April 4th, 2011


After taking the pictures from the train (see the previous PAW), I parked the bike in the lot below the office. I was about to take the stairs up to my place, when I saw this… thing.

It may look nice if you see it from far away, but then I moved closer. Basically, that car is what happens when you give a high amount of money to someone without taste at all, and tell him/her to tune a car with it.

The thing is … I don’t know, it’s not really ugly, it’s just so full of clichés, like the back wheels which are about 1m high (they go to about the same height as my belt), the cristals that are used as gear shift, radio buttons, everything, the kind of leather thing that covers the seats and the inside of the car, and the insane size of the whole enchilada.

I just have one thing to say: DO NOT WANT. Should I have the amount of money its owner has spent on that, I guess I’d just get a Yamaha YZF-R6 instead, a small city car, and spend the rest on music gear (what, are you surprised? ).

See you next week!

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[PAW] Choo-Choo!!

March 30th, 2011

Woha, this one is late. I didn’t see anything pic-worthy for a while, and while arriving to work on Monday morning,  I saw this old train engine on the bridge. I hadn’t seen it before, so I guess it arrived there during the weekend?

Anyway, who cares. Now there is a train engine in my office’s street. Cool.

And at least, while taking the picture, I found another pic-worthy item for next week, so next one shouldn’t be late!

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[PAW] Up there it might be better

March 21st, 2011

Ok, I’m cheating a bit on this one since I took the picture the previous week, but this is my blog, I set the rules.

So what is this? This is what you would see if you were standing on the rooftop of my office building. There is a bunch of nice skyscrapers, maybe not as tall as the American or Japanese ones, but still OK.

The view is OK, it becomes a bit better when sunny, but as everyone knows, sun is quite rare in this small country of ours.

Finally, what’s the link with the title? Nothing special. I just went up there to cool down after basically being told “You know, we don’t give a fuck about you, your opinion, or anything you may want to say. You are just another tool for us. ” by one of the  big guys at work. I don’t usually need to do that, since I believe I’m quite a calm person, but that day it was either going up there or beating the crap out of that guy. I guess I deserved these 20 minutes of breathing.

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[PAW] A biker’s shadow

March 14th, 2011



Well, this is once again what happens when I have nothing interesting to say or take a pic of.

Simple pic a week, that’s my shadow, while riding to the office early in the morning, nothing more.

See you next week.

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