Jean-Francois Amadei

An Hostel for muslims ? :p

According to tweetwaster, I have a total of 5,407 tweets and assuming I spent an average of 30 seconds per tweet I spent 162,210 Seconds or 2,704 Minutes or 45.06 Hours or 1.88 Days using Twitter!

A few months ago after returning from France, I spent some time in Guanzhou, a city which is only 180km far from Hong Kong. I will not dwell long on Guanzhou which has no special attraction (apart Shamian (沙面大街) and Chen Clan's Temple (院書民陳)) but I saw with pleasure the real mess that characterizes Chinese (Hong Kong is too "smooth" to me) and Taiwanese large cities (yes, mess and I are old friends) and I was finally able to speak some Mandarin (because in Hong Kong...)

Last night I've spent few hours trying the newest version of Seesmic Desktop and Tweetdeck, but I still don't think that both of them could actually replace my actual configuration (Twhirl & Facebook Air). I really could have switched to Tweetdeck, the interface is clean and efficient, a lot of options (even though I mostly don't use any) but the main grievance I have with it is that it only supports Facebook Status (nothing about videos or links) without possibilities to "Like" or "Comment", Eliminatory to me.

I know Seesmic Desktop as it's still a pre-version (new word to say "Bêta" ?) but I still have some big problems with the user interface (because the whole idea is quite good actually) which is fixed (the main (blue) column is too narrow and globally not as "clean" (don't know other way to express it) as Tweetdeck's. But once again I won't remain in this position very long, I'll keep trying the newest version as soon as they came out, I know that a lot of improvement are scheduled for both softwares and I'm still really excited about that :)

Since few weeks I'm discovering a totally new side of Hong Kong. After the skyscrapers, 24/7 opened stores, shopping & foods paradise, the city also got damn' good beaches!
 
As you may know I'm French, I grown up between Marseille where I lived and Corsica where my family comes from. In these two famous Mediterranean places, people usually like to spend most of their free (summer) time on a beach, so I did during my whole childhood on Chjuchettu or Vignola in northern Corsica.
 
Intense was my pleasure to discover that Hong Kong actually possesses some really pleasant beaches that really look like Corsica' s one!
 
Even though I haven't tried many (Stanley, Repulse Bay and Shek O) my favorites for now is definitely Shek O which is located at only 20 minutes from Central by MTR and bus. You can find there a nice view, very good Thai and Viet restaurants, young Hongkies and also expats.
 
Although I've already started my 3rd semester, I still have some free time beside, mainly because my courses are scheduled in the end of afternoon. Im not sure I'll be so free in several weeks, when all classes have started.
 
 
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To live in Hong Kong when you are a cars passionate is a source of great pleasure but also of great frustration !
 
I'm wondering if Lamborghini hires its designers at Dassault or Lockheed Martin ;-)

Envoyé de mon iPhone

I tell you, I HATE ties !

I hate ties and I often pray to not be compelled to wear one every single day (once in a while that's ok...). That's mainly why I only wear Mandarin Collar Suit and that I want to set up my own company (that's not the main reason ;o) ).

But when I saw this tie (I worship Bruce Lee) at a so cheap price (HK20$, +-2€) I just bought it !

It was last December and as you guess, I didn't wear it yet...

If you read this (young blog) you must know how much I love to attend to the MobileMonday Taipei. There is always full of interesting people from geek, entrepreneur to CEO and the presentations are always very interesting.

On May the 18th, those of you who are lucky enough to live in Taipei may attend to the 21st MobileMonday Taipei Event about Mobile Open Source.

Without a doubt, 2008 has been the year where open source has transitioned from a status of early adoption to one of acceptance and endorsement by the mobile industry’s who’s who as a recipe for collaborative software development. The Android launch, the Symbian acquisition and open source roadmap, Intel’s Moblin 2.0 and OpenedHand acquisition, Nokia’s adoption of WebKit as a feature of the S40 platform, the Trolltech acquisition and incorporation of Qt on S60, Purple Labs acquisition of Openwave and Sagem assets, AOL’s Open Mobile Platform… it seems that in the space of just one year open source has transitioned all of a sudden from geekware for Linux enthusiasts to a succesful commercial alternative to closed-door standards. Moving forward, 2009 will be the year of maturity for how open source can be used as a tool for cheaper, faster collaborative software development, which reduces barriers to entry and breeds innovation. This month’s MobileMonday Taipei, we invite two leading companies in the mobile open source world to share with us: what is open-source, why so many licensing restrictions, and why it is such an unstoppable force?

A few days ago I was taking Thai Airways to fly from Taipei to Hong Kong (don't ask me why a Thai airlines company is operating on this route...), It was the 1st time I take this company I have to say that it really was a delightful trip. The welcome was really warm (by colorful dressed Thai stewardess but also by some Taiwanese employees), the whole team doing did its utmost to meet all our needs and (for an economic class), the seats were particularly comfortable.

But the twist in this story (it may just be a coincidence) is that when I arrive in front of my travel TV set, everything was already set up in French!

If you plan to travel in Thailand in a near future, you may have to choose between several companies such as Thai Airways or Air Asia. Before make your choice, I suggest that you to read what happened to Marc Van Der Chijs lately (here & also here). Marc seems to be wealthy enough to not being too affected, but if that were to happen to a guy like me, I would be totally doomed...

Lifelike's Sunset is the best musical surprise I had the past 3 month. You will soon understand why I truly worship Lifelike by listening this little housy (with a lovely 80's touch) electronic jewel. On the top of that, "Sunset" features a vocal performance from the Swedish artist Yota and has been co-written/produced by an another wizard (that I also worship, yes I'm a polytheist guy) Alan Braxe.

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