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Sometimes old table lay-out is  practical. Like this page of Didier Lapene's next show at galerie Francis Barlier. Didier LAPENE

The difficult work is always processing images that come from different sources. Photoshop EPS files from the printer, JPGs from the artist. While the EPS files are color-true, the JPGs are iffy, and need overwhelming attention. Once the images are up, the gallerist wants the order changed, so that it looks like an actual gallery show, even though the numerical order has gone head over tails.

Another site revision of Laurence Faguer's Customer Insight Consulting site not yet validated, yet the nav bar and the bottom bar jump the "fence" on Firefox… Why? when the wrapper is there and everything is set on 100% but somehow Motzilla has its own mind.

On Internet Explorer all seems sweet and swell, but Opera…

Here's one that cannot be beaten!

• 4 eggs
• 80gr butter
• 1 bar black chocolate
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1 cup pastry flower
• 1/2 cup milk 
• 1 tsp baking powder
• vanilla sugar
• lemon grind
• 1 pear
• 2 apples

How to:

1. peal and slice apples and pear, put in bowl, sprinkle w/ sugar and lemin juice, put in fridge 
2. Melt butter w/ chocolate
3. Add sugar, stir
4. let cool, add mix egg yolks, stir
5. beat egg whites w/ pînch of salt to firm white
6. stir egg yolks, butter, chocolate mixture and add flower, milk and baking powder
7. slowly add this mixture into the whites
8. add the apples and pear pieces
9. pour into cake form
10. oven at 250°C or 7 for 40 minutes or until brown crust appears. 

 Now finish the site and run the W3C tests!

Remember those days in the middle ages when windows had frames made of wood, wooden tables? When websites had tables that went like ..table..tr..tb..content…tb..tr..table…and inside that a trillion tags just to get the text looking like it looked like something. Well here was dreamweaver and a webdesigner once told me when I didn't know better, don't use it, you won't learn anything.

 In fact he was right. Now it's easier w/ Zeldman pulling the train in the right direction ten years ago, when he introduced table-less web pages. Customer Inside Consulting was done like that and I was asked to strip those table. Oh well, it will be pages … with css, the way everyone is going now since the beginning, n'est pas?

I'm regularly asked to have a coffee, hopefully at a nice café, like Le Canon at Gobelins, and people ask me where they should host their site that is still off-line, or how to reference their site, if they have one online and sometime already paid a huge amount of money to some of the many referencing services available, usually companies who take your money but don't get your site near anywhere on the search engine ranking.

I sometimes do it hoping to get a client, but I realize a coffee doesn't feed me nor will it pay my rent, and although the weather is fine and the girls beautiful, I'd rather spend time tinkering away and hacking some scripts.

 Antoine is that way, too, since he sits and listens, as I tell him what to do, realizing that he could a) do his homework and learn something himself by browsing the web, and b) that he will not hire me, now that I gave him pretty much the ABC of basic web hosting and referencing. 

Then he asks me in a rather abrupt way what I think of such and such a host who I happen to know and dislike, should I tell him. I shake my head, rise, shake his hand and stoop out onto the trottoir.

Referencing a site seems to puzzle a lot of people who believe they can do it either themselves or pay some company to do it for them. They don't (no they don't!) think of content or graphic design. They don't know anything about metatags or navigation. Well, I started that way, too and it took some time to figure out that none of it is really science, since things change rapidly.

In fact the whole Internet has changed so fast that it's hard to keep up. How can you tell somebody for a coffee how come this is happening? 

It's been fairly easy, compared to spip that was used for parisiana.com which consisted of tweaking the css, the php and doing a lot of work just to get some kind of layout. The WordPress templates are just richer to choose from, specially the theme browser by Alex King as well as all the WordPress codex that includes instruction for a home.php page.

 In the meantime I also found a new ftp client, FileZilla, much faster than Leechftp, and so it goes, finding things that are easy to use…

How did it begin?

Once again full of energy, unreal, and fulfilling, Solomon butterflying down the lane.

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The new version of Parisiana is up, still being changed though. Another thing: google ads. Parisiana – The Lovers Guide to Paris

That's been another full moon night filling the medium sized Gibus with hundreds of teenagers, and some of their parents, as they flocked around the stage to listen to a series of concerts by young groups Saturday nite, near place de la République.

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MySpace DirektPiratriz at Le Gibus

It was a full moon night, I noticed when I stepped out of the tight packed club and the group got promoted to play next at the New Morning. Much can be said about the energy these kids have to play in front of a crowd of hundreds of their groupies, without any complex.