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To-Do’s

Pierre Nick — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 08:05:49 +0000

Steer away from Facebook
I’ve been wanting to do that for a while. This just seems to push me faster towards the exit. I won’t shut myself of it just yet though: my existing content is theirs forever anyway, right? Facebook remains fun for some things.
Use Twitter and Flickr more
I prefer to use Twitter and Flickr as a result of #1. Twitter brings me closer to people similar to me: those liking the tech, the geek, the awesome. Flickr allows me to use my own copyrights, is so clean and full of beautiful. They both feel so fresh to my mind, a strange and strong feeling of weightlessness. I’m also finally learning to use Twitter properly and up to what it can do.
Change my blog theme
And well just about everything about it. Make it lighter: I’m micro-blogging way more these days, unfitting for how this blog currently is. Maybe split it in two blogs: the randomness vs the geek + those essays about geeky stuff I’m glad i’ve written.
Join things, comities, groups, contribute to a project … but outside of school
To prepare myself for what is now the scare of my life: post-university. I don’t want to ever say “the best years of my life are behind me”. This makes me think a lot. I need to keep the awesome going on forever, but most probably in different ways. And i know i’m not the only one.
Finish coding the telemetry system of my baby
This was started out as my senior project and I sometimes wish this could be my full time job. We need an awesome energy management system.

Other random to-do’s:

Reinstall Mac OS X. Had it for 1 1/2 years. I feel dirty.
Find a use for the computers I have laying around, set up servers because there are never enough servers.
Study for my midterms..

Nick Clark-Spear: Bathroom acoustics is the new studio.

Pierre Nick — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 22:02:19 +0000

Go check out Nick Clark-Spear’s interpretation of “O Holy Night”, actually one of my favorite Christmas carols. Bathroom acoustics is the new studio in this user-generated content Web 2.0 Internet era. And it does a pretty descent job.

This young promising baritone has passion and talent which I know will take him far. He’s also such a good friend of mine with such a remarkable voice too if you ask me!

Leave a comment while you are there if you liked it! Enjoy!

Josh Groban – O Holy Night by Nick Clark-Spear

Garage Canada finance Praized

Pierre Nick — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 21:21:05 +0000

J’ai écrit il y quelques jours sur la firme de capital de risque Garage Technology Venture Canada, car j’admirais leur façon de voir les choses, et la culture qui semblait les animer dans leurs investissements.

Cet après-midi, La Presse annonce que Garage Canada investira un million (1,000,000) de dollars dans Praized Média, startup montréalaise de l’ère Web 2.0 / Local 2.0

Très bonne nouvelle pour Sylvain Carle et ses associés. Je suis vraiment heureux de voir un tel investissement dans la métropole! Je suis également bien curieux d’essayer le bêta.

Il ont même une table avec leur logo. C’est toujours bon signe ;)

– Pierre Nick

Art of Code

Pierre Nick — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 14:24:50 +0000

While browsing around on Apple’s website (I always have to get my weekly dose of it), I stumbled upon their very interesting Pro section about this French company called Trafik. Founded in 1997, Trafik “designs dynamic visual art and interactive environments then builds the custom applications necessary to realize them.”

The main focus of the video is a piece called Sonic Cube, which consists of a large illuminated cube responding to ambient sound. I’m a suck up for this kind of new digital media; it is something I’d really like to venture in one day.

In the meantime, be sure to check out the video about those “artists of programming” and all the other cool stuff people do with Macs that seems to be cool enough for Apple to mention. [via apple.com]