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4 years blogging
Dec 20th
My blog has just celebrated its 4th birthday.
161 posts, only 190 comments, but the statistics shows a stable increase in the number of visitors (in average a bit less than 500 unique visitors per day).
During the week-end, I have worked on upgrading WordPress to the newer 2.9 release, and have just finished optimising my apache and mysql configurations. Access to my websites should now be somehow faster.
Moved to London!
Dec 10th
Well, I haven’t moved myself, but my server is now hosted in the new Linode datacenter located in London.
The migration has caused a downtime of more or less 4 hours yesterday, time for the data to cross the ocean.
The migration was successful, though you might still experience issues to connect to the services hosts on this linode due to the new IP adressess (both IPv4 and IPv6). Most DNS servers should however now be up-to-date.
Thanks again to Linode for their great service and support.
HADOPI II law adopted
Sep 26th
The HADOPI II law was finally adopted on September the 15th by the Assemblée Nationale. Guess what? My local representative, who wrote recently a very nice letter against this project, voted in favor of this law.
This is not a real surprise, as it has also happened with the HADOPI I law last May, but this time, I will take the time to write him a letter to express my feelings.
HADOPI I & II: letter from my local representative
Jul 25th
I have received an official letter from my local representative, in which he sums up the recent events in the area of the HADOPI law.
I will only quote the following parts of his letter, referring to the amendments proposed to this law, following to the partial censure of the Constitutional Council:
[...] ce qui me laisse plus que très dubitatif sur l’efficacité du dispositif. [...] cette procédure me semble tout à fait inadaptée.
Which can be translated as follows:
[...] I doubt this disposal will have any effect. [...] I think this procedure is absolutely not adapted.
Now, let’s bet what will be his vote in September!
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French income tax e-declaration
May 30th
As usual, I have chosen to use the online way of declaring my incomes for the French income tax. This year, I could declare everything without any issue using Iceweasel and Icedtea on Debian GNU/Linux amd64. However, I was unable to sign my declaration using my certificate.
I have tried installing sun-java6-plugin, which allowed me to go one step further, but I was still unable to choose the certificate with which I had to sign my declaration. Actually, it was only a display problem (the combo box was simply not displayed).
Guess what? I had to use the Windows 7 RC version I had installed in a VirtualBox to be able to sign my declaration!
I didn’t want to lose more time with this, but my girlfriend hasn’t yet made her declaration, hence any hints on how to do this on GNU/Linux would be highly apprciated.
HADOPI law finally voted by my local representative
May 12th
As expected, the French HADOPI law was voted earlier today by the Assemblée Nationale.
As expected, my local representative voted in favour of this law.
I had however kept a secret hope that he would abstain for this vote, following to the email I have received from his assistant following to our meeting. Mr Vannson planned to take the floor during the finale discussions. He had sent me for review the text they wrote, which perfectly matched my arguments, and even referred to the law as a “Rube Goldberg machine” (“Ma conviction est que nous avons monté une usine à gaz” in the original version). This text also stated that he was netiher convinced nor satisfied by the law.
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