I just read Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s “Le Petit Prince” (The Little Prince). It’s very different from what I got from it when I was a child.

This is so deep!

Here’s the one I read (in french, he also has a spanish translation).

And here’s Wikipedia’s entry about the book, it includes a short synopsis of the story.

As Google describe it, “Google App Engine enables you to build web applications on the same scalable systems that power Google applications, Google App Engine makes it easy to build scalable applications that grow from one user to millions of users without infrastructure headaches..”

I’ve been learning Python the last few months, so I followed the tutorial and created an application. It’s currently limited to 3 applications, and I used-up one (you currently cannot delete applications).

Files are a major nuisance, and until another practical solution is universally accepted, we will have to live with them.

Online-only solutions cannot work until connectivity is not an issue, until it becomes an extremely cheap commodity.

Until then, maybe a hybrid solution that uses client-side software with network-based distributed storage that does not rely on folder structures and filenames could be acceptable.

“Le Monde 2″ : Les catastrophes climatiques de 2007 en images

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Google’s statistical machine translation is getting better … it currently gives better translations than when I first tried it, still not perfect but usable.