Last but not Least…

Plants and trees are growing up; Bugs are buzzing around; The end of the scholar year is near. This will be my last post on this blog, a least in a academical context since I may continue to update it.

This year have been full of challenges involving work, studies and family. I’ve been focused on my diploma and almost forgot the real meaning of all of it. Tomorrow, I’ll be an qualified engineer, working in a big society, a nobody lost in the middle of a massive army of my clones. When looking in the mirror, life seems so short. I may have fooled myself, deciding not to follow the dead-end tracks I’ve been putted on. I’ve fought against adversity to become what I am but somehow I do feel void today.

But I remember those countless nights I’ve spend watching the stars, those precious moments shared with people I miss, the sunsets I’ve watched with my fiancée and all of the times I’ve thought would never end. And I know that reckless work is the only way I’ll spend more time doing things I really love (as paradoxical as it could seem).

So I’ll continue working in my field, trying to make science progress as much as possible, with renewed passion and interest day after days. I’ll try spending more time with my beloved family as those three long years of intensive work spread us apart. I’ll involve myself in associations and public interest actions to help luckless people to find their way as others helped me to find myself when I’ve been lost.

I’d like to take a chance to thank them here, those folks who influenced me in my everyday behaviour, in the way I perceive the world I’m living in. We may have been friends, family or lovers. We may also had professor and student relation. We could have shared a short talk or event a silence in which we understood each other.

All of those sparkles of humanity, those tiny drops of hope are what I’ll live my life for, today and forever.

Thank you.

So long Keyboard, and thanks for all the fun…

One of the lasts reports published by the Gartner Consulting Group concluded that “More Than 50 Percent of PCs Purchased for Users Under the Age of 15 Will Have Touchscreens by 2015″. That said, I’d like to talk about the mutation computers are currently showing.

Everything started with the iPhone. This tiny shiny have been a great
revolution in the everyday approach of interfaces and user’s experience. Freed
of it’s classical interfaces, keyboard and mousey per se, the iPhone
created an precedent in the way people, especially youngsters, understand the
websites and conceive the web.

After that, came the netbook revolution, with their incredible ease-of-use,
autonomy and mobility. They gave everyone opportunity to surf the web more or
less everywhere. Their cheap price also permitted to spread all around the
place.

The most recent form factor ready to invade our life is the
internet-tablet. Even if tablets have already been pushed on the market
round’ 2005 (remember that Windows XP Tablet edition?), their high price
and low functionnality have been, at the time, a major break against their
spread. But since Apple, and it’s charismatic CEO, have decided that Thou shall
use a Tablet to surf upon thy Internet everyone is ready to sell their soul
to leave a fingerprint on an iPad.