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2009 !January 3

Happy 2009.

As my official new year card, here is a photo I took in Japan in 2004, at Fushimi Inari shrine, near Kyoto.

Every arch here is a donation to Shinto Gods (the spirits of nature basically). This way goes on for about two or three hours around the hill. Shinto Shrines have something special : the center of the shrine is void.

I did also a try where I photoshopped myself into the image, from another photo where I was pretending to do Kung fu in a Kyoto Ryokan room, but I won’t post it on the internet.

OK : here it is.

Last post of 2008…December 30 2008

Finally, last day of the year.

It’s the occasion to look back on 2008. I find lots of positive points :

I lowered my blogging addiction, which is good for saving some time, and bad for my blog.

However, I realised blogging doesn’t just mean ripping off things here and there from the internet and posting them. It should be about creating something original and fun for the internet. The internet is like a beast some of us have to feed. Or it’s just the sum of all our insignificant stories, ideas, images. It’s still a beautiful thing, let’s hope it stays that way. I just wish it could be consumed more easily, as a fancy drink or as a mdedicine or a drug that would be painlessly injected, feeding us daily with the flow of the world. No, not like TV.

So If I continue this blog, it should be more personal and hopefully more a display of my own creativity if I have any left.

One fact also is that I changed job, I have now more money and less hassles.

I think I take less responsability of what doesn’t belong to me and concentrate on doing a quality work for which I am paid for.

I am now in a communication department and I work on our internal magazine. I also publish my own section on the corporate intranet, with stories and images I gather around. I do it in French and English. My previous job was English only.

They also asked me to contribute to an internal blog about the internet, but on our intranet.

Istanbul daysNovember 21 2008

About 10 days ago we were in Istanbul for a few days. We rented a nice place with a stunning Bosphorus view through manzara-istanbul.com.

Here are some images I brought back.

I can only post them now since my MacBook’s hard drive went down during that week-end and I had to change it myself. Now I have 250 Go of space. It feels nice and comfy.

Welcome to NOW.November 18 2008