My best friend Michael lives in Paris and craves for an Apple store. In deeds, our beautiful city, the City of Lights, hasn’t gotten its apple temple yet !
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A Citroen 2CV on St Marks Place, New York. Right in front of my building !
(via laurentkretz)
At the end of november, an accident between a police car and a mini-motorbike left two teenagers on the ground. The same night, as well as the following ones, Villiers-Le-Bel, a suburb 20mn from Paris where the accident happened, became the stage of violent riots between the police and local youths. As always, molotov cocktails were launched at the police, washing machines carcasses and heavy steel balls were falling from the roofs on the firemen, cars were being burnt - the usual.
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Somewhere, in the basement or attic of my parents’ house, there must be an old box with “Photos / Laurent” written on it. In this box, there must tens of photo albums and thousands of pictures. One of them must be of my best friend Michael, in Budapest in the mid 90’s, proudly leaning on a beautiful Trabant.
Continue reading ‘My best friend got his dreamcar … A Trabant !’
Just heard something amazing on the french news (the “20h” on France2). I might (detail later if i don’t do it now).
In very (very) short …The french educational system requires its students to make choices about their career very early.
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“i will delete whoever who do this to me. No more friends. why don’t you just ask, i will give you a quarter.”
- A very funny comment on a TechCrunch post on profile ads. Sums it all ;-)
Ads-Click Introduces MicroSocialAds In Beta. Now Get Paid to Spam Your Friends on Facebook.
This is an incredible smart move and counter attack to Open Social: Facebook will license its platform architecture, method and tags. Any other site can adapt to be able to welcome the existing apps and developers of FB apps - 100,000 developers and 11,000+ applications.
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There’s been some buzz on it. This is so cool, my childhood dream: a jet pack !
If it comes to be true, this will be one of my first “gifts to me from me” if I ever get rich ;-)
Continue reading ‘I want one ! Perfect Xmas gift: a $200K JetPack’

New Apple store in Meatpacking
Nobody probably cares, but it’s good to share: I Didn’t smoke yesterday.
So yesterday was the first day since November 2002, in Jakarta, that I didn’t light a ciggie. I am not claiming I quit, I just said I didn’t smoke. If I am lucky (… and willing and strong and not too stressed and don’t have a drink tonight and not tempted by friends and …) today will be the second day.
Continue reading ‘First day since Nov 2002 in Jakarta’
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