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Time Zones Trickery (Part 2) - Practicing Inconvenience For a More Equitable Workplace
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2021-06-07T22:46:00+02:00
2022-02-04T10:14:37+01:00
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privilege
timezone
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<p>You remember how <a href="http://notablog.notafish.com/post/2021/06/01/Time-Zone-Trickery-part-1-or-Defining-Working-Hours" title="TIme Zones Trickery Part 1">in my previous blog post I talked about care</a>? I want to expand on care and its twin bothersome inconvenience.</p>
<p>In many conversations at our organization, there’s often a reproach of “US centrism”, or even “US West Coast centrism” when it comes to time zones (other things too, but we’ll stick to time zones now).</p>
<p>And it’s true.</p>
<h3>How does West Coast Centrism manifest?</h3>
<p>These observations are based on my experience working for an organization which had its main office in San Francisco until last March (the office is closed for now) and which has around 350 out of 500 of its employees in the United States. The center of power is definitely located on the West Coast of the United States (where most of our executives are).</p>
<p>Here are concrete examples:</p>
<ul>
<li>Deadlines might be set on Friday nights, 18.00 San Francisco time. For me in Germany, Friday 18.00 in San Francisco is actually Saturday 3.00 in the morning. Working to meet a deadline with colleagues in San Francisco—expecting their feedback or them expecting mine—probably means working late into the night. For my colleagues in Bangalore or Singapore, that’s square into the weekend, 6.30 and 9.00 on Saturday respectively.</li>
<li>Announcements might be made mid-day San Francisco time, which means they land in inboxes in a lot of people’s evening. If it’s a “no frills” announcement, no problem! Getting stale news is less important. If it’s a complicated one, a difficult one, or an important one, then gut-reactions/discussions happen in real time, without all the people (probably about one third of our workforce) who are having dinner or sleeping. They wake up to a new organization, a new colleague, a new policy and they’ve never had a chance to express their surprise, happiness or disagreement in a timely fashion. It gives them the impression that their reactions don’t matter.</li>
<li>Call for feedback on important decisions might go with <q>“Please give your feedback before EOD, when this goes out”</q> (meaning, End of Day San Francisco time). This effectively shuts out people in other time zones to give feedback, and leaves the decision making always happening on the West Coast, or the United States.</li>
</ul>
<p>This to state a few.</p>
<h3>To adapt or not to adapt</h3>
<p>As someone sitting in Germany, I have had to structure my work day outside of working hours (see a definition in Part 1). I have made the decision to set aside two days in the week where I will accept meetings up to 22.00 my time. Why? Because this effectively triples the available overlapping time with people on the West Coast of the United States. And while I’ve made this adaptation routine, it is still an inconvenience. It means no dinner with my kids. Or sometimes being hungry on a call and less focused.</p>
<p>Today, as I was speaking with one of my colleagues, I thought about this further. And I realized that it is actually easier for me to be inconvenienced, than it is to inconvenience someone. If I'm looking for the “lowest common inconvenience”, I have to think twice as much and do a lot of back and forth. I have other things to do with my time than to stalk people's calendars. In short, the inconvenience of having to battle for someone to be inconvenienced takes a bigger toll on me than my being inconvenienced in the first place. Are you still following?</p>
<h3>On Privilege, Power and Inconvenience</h3>
<p>A few months back, our organization took a crack at rethinking the Monthly All Staff meeting times to accommodate more time zones. We ended up rotating between the following times, which is a huge improvement from what we had before:</p>
<ul>
<li>UTC times: 15:00 - 16:00 - 21:00 - 01:00</li>
</ul>
<p>For the sake of illustration, however, let me translate what this means in various time zones (in bold, the convenient times).</p>
<ul>
<li>Buenos Aires, São Paulo, Halifax (UTC-3): <strong>12:00 - 13:00 - 18:00</strong> - 22:00</li>
<li>New-York, Toronto, Santiago (UTC-4): <strong>11:00 - 12:00 - 17:00</strong> - 21:00</li>
<li>San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles: (UTC-7): <strong>8:00 - 9:00 - 14:00 - 18:00</strong></li>
<li>Johannesburg, Cairo, Paris, Copenhagen (UTC+2): <strong>17:00 - 18:00</strong> - 23:00 - 3:00</li>
<li>Bangalore, Mumbai, Kolkata: (UTC+5:30): 20:30 - 21:30 - 2:30 - 6:30</li>
<li>Bangkok, Jakarta (UTC+7): 22:00 - 23:00 - 4:00 - <strong>8:00</strong></li>
<li>Singapore, Taipei (UTC+8): 23:00 - 0:00 - 5:00 - <strong>9:00</strong></li>
<li>Sydney, Melbourne (UTC+10): 1:00 - 2:00 - 7:00 - <strong>11:00</strong></li>
</ul>
<p>As you can see, some parts of the world never get to participate in that meeting during working hours, and others, well... do. Interestingly enough, the only time zone for which the times are always convenient is the West Coast of the United States. Four convenient times out of four. Our Indian colleagues never have a convenient meeting time, and Asia in general really drew the short straw.</p>
<p>Last week I listened to Adam Grant’s podcast Work Life. John Amaechi was a guest speaker and they discussed <a href="https://www.ted.com/podcasts/worklife/building-an-anti-racist-workplace-transcript" title="Building an Anti-Racist Workplace podcast">Building an Anti-Racist Workplace</a>. John Amaechi put words to something I have toyed with for quite a while as I was thinking up this blog post. He talks about privilege in those terms (emphasis mine):</p>
<blockquote><p>“Privilege is a hard concept for people to understand because normally when we talk of privilege we imagine immediate, unearned riches and tangible benefits for anyone who has it. But white privilege, <strong>and indeed all privilege, is actually more about the absence of inconvenience, the absence of an impediment or challenge</strong>. And as such, when you have it, you really don't notice it. But when it's absent, it affects everything you do.”</p></blockquote>
<p>And that’s exactly it. In my world of working across time zones, <q>privilege and power dictate whose calendar is the least inconvenienced</q>. And because the organization’s power resides on the West Coast of the United States, people with less actual power in the organization, but who are located there also benefit from this state of affairs. Which may cause people to miss the issue entirely. A lot of people stay up late Eastward from San Francisco, I rarely see people in San Francisco staying up late, or getting up really early<sup>[<a href="http://notablog.notafish.com/post/2021/06/07/Time-Zones-Trickery-Part-2-Practicing-Inconvenience-For-a-More-Equitable-Workplace#wiki-footnote-1" id="rev-wiki-footnote-1">1</a>]</sup>. There is also a strange unwritten rule that it is ok to book meetings late in the evening in people’s day, rather than very early in the morning, which favors the US West Coast<sup>[<a href="http://notablog.notafish.com/post/2021/06/07/Time-Zones-Trickery-Part-2-Practicing-Inconvenience-For-a-More-Equitable-Workplace#wiki-footnote-2" id="rev-wiki-footnote-2">2</a>]</sup>.</p>
<p>I talked about care before, and how important it is to talk to people. I stand by it. Care should not make any of us forget where power lies, and how it manifests in unexpected but real ways. By refusing to be inconvenienced, we perpetuate the powers that are, and implicitly expect that other people will make the necessary arrangements. Worse, we don’t even see that they make those arrangements.</p>
<h3>The solution? Seek to be actively inconvenienced.</h3>
<p>Here are a few tips to do that:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Make space in your calendar explicitly stating that these are for “other time zones”</strong>, at times you know others will be surprised and happy to find.</li>
<li><strong>Do not wait for people to ask if they can book a meeting “at that time”, but tell them clearly</strong>, because there is a chance that depending on where they sit (location OR power structure), they will not trust themselves to ask.</li>
<li><strong>Alternate recurring meetings if there are no convenient times for all, at a time that is inconvenient for each in turn</strong>. Even meetings where the ones inconvenienced are the majority. <strong>And when it's your turn to be inconvenienced, show up.</strong></li>
<li>Do not, and I repeat, <strong>do not move recurring meetings that might be inconvenient for some people, because you don't know how much more inconvenient the meeting might be on another day</strong>. Especially not if it's a meeting with 20 people, and it's moved for one person. Or two.</li>
<li>Think about deadlines, announcements, anything that is time-bound with a hint of fairness. We can’t always accommodate everyone, but <strong>we should not always inconvenience the same people</strong>.</li>
</ul>
<p>In short, <strong>practice inconvenience in how you think about your time and that of your colleagues, because it will help you to care better, and make for a more equitable workplace.</strong></p>
<div class="footnotes"><h4>Notes</h4>
<p>[<a href="http://notablog.notafish.com/post/2021/06/07/Time-Zones-Trickery-Part-2-Practicing-Inconvenience-For-a-More-Equitable-Workplace#rev-wiki-footnote-1" id="wiki-footnote-1">1</a>] Let me hereby thank the few West Coast colleagues over the years who have woken up super early, or went to bed really late. They exist. They’re the best. <3</p>
<p>[<a href="http://notablog.notafish.com/post/2021/06/07/Time-Zones-Trickery-Part-2-Practicing-Inconvenience-For-a-More-Equitable-Workplace#rev-wiki-footnote-2" id="wiki-footnote-2">2</a>] I am not sure if it’s a general rule, or one that was shaped through organizational culture. It might well be that in other organizations with a different location of power, this trend is reversed.</p></div>
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Time Zone Trickery (Part 1) - Defining Working Hours
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2021-06-01T15:05:00+02:00
2023-04-05T14:22:13+02:00
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diversity
inclusion
intercultural
timezone
work
<p><em>(Warning, this post contain 24 hour format times, brace yourself.)</em></p>
<p>I work for an organization that spans many time zones. We have staff located from New Zealand to the West Coast of the United States, which literally is a whole day away.</p>
<p>Of course during this pandemic we’ve been thinking a lot about how to do remote work. What are the norms, expectations, rules we should develop so that we take advantage of being a culturally diverse and distributed organization? We think those advantages bring all sorts of cool edges to our work. How do we take advantage of , while at the same time making sure that the quality of the work environment we can offer is good, for everyone.</p>
<figure style="float:right; margin: 0 0 1em 1em;"><img src="http://notablog.notafish.com/public/.ronan-furuta-AHZQYFY1-5M-unsplash_m.jpg" alt="Photo by © Ronan Furuta on Unsplash, juin 2021" title="Photo by © Ronan Furuta on Unsplash, juin 2021" /><figcaption>A bike with lots of clocks attached to it. Photo by © Ronan Furuta on Unsplash</figcaption></figure>
<p>Of all the things it takes to develop a quality environment for staff, one is how we go about paying attention to our geographic distribution, and how we go about time zones. There are many aspects to working in different time zones. I’m starting with a necessary definition for working hours.</p>
<p>My team spans 4 and a half continents. To give you the measure of this, when ColleagueA wakes up on the US West Coast, it is midnight for ColleagueB in Asia. My colleagueC based in Africa and I are actually the lucky ones, because we sit somewhere in the middle, with acceptable time overlap with all the others.</p>
<p>By acceptable time overlap, I mean that we have a few windows that allow us to speak with our colleagues when both of us are within "working hours". My mornings are Asia's afternoons, my late afternoons are America's mornings. And Africa and I can have lunch together, all of this within working hours!</p>
<h3>What are “working hours”?</h3>
<p>The pandemic has thrown all normalcy out the window, but for the sake of agreeing on something, let’s decide that "working hours” go from 8.00 (that’s morning) to 19.00 (that would be evening). In France for example, this is a standard workday span.</p>
<p>Considering that we're expected to work about 8 hours a day, some people will start at 8.00 and finish around 17.00, others will start at 10.00 and finish around 19.00, with probably a lot of combinations in between. An hour for lunch somewhere in the middle and you have your 8-hour workday.</p>
<p>Any time before or after these times I decide to consider ‘’inconvenient times’’. Why? Simply because they often are at odds with how life is sliced for many of us. Anything work-related that happens outside the 8.00 to 19.00 span becomes somewhat-to-terribly inconvenient for anyone leading a conventional life<sup>[<a href="http://notablog.notafish.com/post/2021/06/01/Time-Zone-Trickery-part-1-or-Defining-Working-Hours#wiki-footnote-1" id="rev-wiki-footnote-1">1</a>]</sup>.</p>
<p>For example:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Social life</strong>: dinner at friends, after work drinks, women night out, date night, board game night, cinema night, restaurant opening times, you name it.</li>
<li><strong>Environment-bound life</strong>: the evening news start time is set per country, your favorite show is set to run in a time window that assumes you’re back from the office, shops are open at specific times that fit the local context, your ballet lessons or language courses offer evening slots, etc..</li>
<li><strong>Family life</strong>: school hours (that start before you go to work), your partner's office hours, dinner with the kids, family pizza movie night, the nanny’s usual working hours, elderly-home visiting times, etc..</li>
</ul>
<p>Keeping in mind these things is a good idea when you work with people in other geographies than yours. But time zones are tricky, so it's good to know where to begin.</p>
<h3>How can I be mindful of time zone trickery<sup>[<a href="http://notablog.notafish.com/post/2021/06/01/Time-Zone-Trickery-part-1-or-Defining-Working-Hours#wiki-footnote-2" id="rev-wiki-footnote-2">2</a>]</sup>? It's simple, just talk to people</h3>
<p>I think the underlying rule would be: don’t do to others what you don’t want them to do to you. Would you want to have an important meeting at 21.00 in the middle of your Thursday evening crime series? Or at a time where you’ve been up for more than 15 hours? Probably not. Do you want to be part of a work heavy meeting at 5.00 in the morning? There’s a good chance not. Be mindful, but as I said, time zones are tricky. Don't assume.</p>
<p>A few weeks back I read <a href="https://mailchi.mp/87657ab90ca2/elijah-you-need-to-unmute" hreflang="en" title="Raw Signal Group Newsletter">this newsletter from Raw Signal Group</a> about the future of remote work, post-pandemic. It’s a great read. One thing really stuck out for me:</p>
<p><q>The biggest impediment to the future of work is how easy it is to remember the people close to you, and how easy it is to forget those further away. These are the problems that stem from a lack of care.</q></p>
<p><strong>Actually, the answer to time zone trickery is: care.</strong></p>
<p>Here is how you can start to care:</p>
<ul>
<li>Before a meeting, make sure you <strong>know where people are located</strong>.</li>
<li>Once you know, <strong>use the right tools to schedule meetings across time zones</strong> (there are about a billion on the internetz, <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=time+zone+scheduling&oq=time+zone+scheduling" title="Google search for Time Zone Scheduling">Google</a> or <a href="https://duckduckgo.com/?q=timezone+scheduling" title="Timezone scheduling search on Duck Duck Go">Duck Duck Go</a> are your friends).</li>
<li>Even when you have that information, <strong>don’t ever (and I mean, ever) assume that you know what time is good for others</strong>. Not everyone has the same life you have. Some people (like me) have adapted their work routines to accommodate and will take meetings at times you do not expect. They’ve adapted, so they go run errands or pick up their kids at daycare at times that might have been convenient for you to meet. Or they haven’t, and have evening meals to prepare, afternoon classes to attend or morning school runs to do. People like to make their own decisions, as to when they do what.</li>
<li><strong>Never, ever assume that people don’t mind staying up late, or getting up early</strong> because they’ve done it before, but <strong>never assume the contrary either, that it might be too late for them, or too early</strong>.</li>
<li><strong>This said, never forget what power you may hold over people because sometimes they don't know how to say no.</strong></li>
</ul>
<p>In short, just <strong>talk to people to find a time that works</strong>. This will go a long long way.</p>
<p>Being mindful might not be enough, depending on where the balance of power lies, but I’ll tackle that in my next post, where I’ll talk about “inconvenience” and how <strong>being really inclusive and mindful means more than talking to people</strong>. For now, really, ask people before you move meetings around, or add meetings to their calendar. It does for nice human interactions, too.</p>
<p>This post has a sequel: <a href="http://notablog.notafish.com/post/2021/06/07/Time-Zones-Trickery-Part-2-Practicing-Inconvenience-For-a-More-Equitable-Workplace" hreflang="en" title="Time-zone trickery part II - Practicing Inconvenience">Time-zone trickery part II - Practicing Inconvenience</a></p>
<div class="footnotes"><h4>Notes</h4>
<p>[<a href="http://notablog.notafish.com/post/2021/06/01/Time-Zone-Trickery-part-1-or-Defining-Working-Hours#rev-wiki-footnote-1" id="wiki-footnote-1">1</a>] We could write a whole post, or even a whole book on conventional vs unconventional, so I would be grateful if you could bear with me on this, and if we left that conversation aside for this once. I’ll be happy to have it another time. </p>
<p>[<a href="http://notablog.notafish.com/post/2021/06/01/Time-Zone-Trickery-part-1-or-Defining-Working-Hours#rev-wiki-footnote-2" id="wiki-footnote-2">2</a>] credit to my friend Tanveer for coining the term ;-)</p></div>
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Day 38908765 of the pandemic
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2021-03-08T11:09:00+01:00
2021-03-09T00:11:14+01:00
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L'air du temps
pandemic
this world is crazy
<p>It is day 38908765 of the pandemic. We're still surviving, but barely. I have tamed the tears. Not in a way that keeps them tucked in, but in a way that brings them out whenever, without having to feel guilty or bad or anything really. Tears just are and I let them fall and it is ok.</p>
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Y'a quand même des gens géniaux...
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2014-02-20T10:40:25+01:00
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<p>... et dans ces moments où le printemps est en berne, ça fait du bien.</p>
<p>Calirezo distribue du bonheur, <a href="http://www.calirezo.com/dotclear/index.php?post/2011/05/19/Soyez-heureux-je-le-veux" hreflang="fr">ici</a> par le biais de petites annonces à découper. Ça coûte rien, et c'est bien.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.calirezo.com/dotclear/index.php?post/2011/05/19/Soyez-heureux-je-le-veux"><img src="http://www.calirezo.com/dotclear/public/mai2011/HappyMai2011_3.jpg" alt="" width="450" /></a></p>
<p>via <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/Kozlika/status/75846114254929920" hreflang="fr">Kozlika</a>.</p>
Le cinéma ne nous montre pas ces gens là
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2009-09-09T13:29:00+02:00
2009-09-09T12:39:28+02:00
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L'air du temps
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discovery
truths
<p>Entendu ce matin sur France Inter. Une interview de <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1023919/" hreflang="en">Ramin Bahrani</a> par Eva Bétan, sur son film <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1095442/">Goodbye Solo</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Je viens de passer deux jours à Paris. Je me suis baladé, je me suis assis dans des cafés, j'ai vu autour de moi des gens que je ne vois jamais dans les films français. Or ils représentent la grande majorité de la population, c'est à dire qu'ils ne sont pas riches, pas spécialement beaux, ni très à la mode. Le cinéma ne nous montre pas ces gens là. [...] En fait, ces personnages marginaux ne sont marginaux que dans le cinéma.</p></blockquote>
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<p>Le podcast entier de l'émission (le 7/10) est disponible sur le site de <a href="http://sites.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/em/liste/">France Inter</a> pendant encore un certain temps. L'interview est aux environs de 2h23min.</p>
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J'avais en tête Marie Curie...
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2009-03-25T15:10:00+01:00
2009-03-25T15:12:29+01:00
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L'air du temps
ada lovelace day
Anne(s)
blog
event
femmes
technophile
<p>Pour répondre au défi de <a href="http://chocolateandvodka.com/2009/01/06/join-me-on-ada-lovelace-day/" hreflang="en">Suw Charman Anderson</a>, écrire un billet sur une femme dans la technologie ou les sciences, j'avais en tête d'écrire sur Marie Curie. Surtout parce qu'il y a très longtemps, j'ai vu au théâtre la pièce "Les palmes de Monsieur Schutz" de Jean-Noël Fenwick, avec Gérard Caillaud, Sonia Volleraux et Stéphane Hillel et que j'en ai gardé pour ce petit bout de femme une admiration à la fois drôle et émue. (D'ailleurs, si d'aventure vous trouvez le DVD de la pièce - pas le film - jetez-vous dessus). Évidemment, Stephanie m'a coiffée au poteau, puisque c'est <a href="http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2009/03/24/journee-ada-lovelace-marie-curie/" hreflang="fr">la femme qu'elle a choisi pour son billet "Ada Lovelace"</a>.</p>
<p>Ma faute aussi, puisque je suis en retard d'un jour. Pas grave, j'avais d'autres idées en tête.</p>
<p>Und zwar, comme disent les allemands, pas une, mais plusieurs femmes, qui dans le monde large, ou en marge, de la technologie et des sciences, font partie de celles qui méritent bien un billet. En fait, j'en prendrai trois, dans l'ordre décroissant alphabétique de prénoms (histoire qu'on vienne pas me dire que je fais du favoritisme déplacé).</p>
<p>D'abord, Stephanie Booth. On la connaît pour son <a href="http://climbtothestars.org/">blog</a> et ses <a href="http://twitter.com/stephtara">tweets</a>, mais on la connait souvent bien moins pour son côté <a href="http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/wiki/BasicBilingual" hreflang="en">codeuse en cachette</a>, ou <a href="http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/04/30/mystery-wordpressmarkdown-problem-troubleshooting/" hreflang="en">débrouilleuse de la technologie qui coince</a>. Ce que j'aime dans son approche de la technologie, c'est sa façon de partager des trucs qui pourraient paraître compliqués et de les rendre simple et agréables, voire même rigolos. En la lisant, on a toujours l'impression que la vie est un peu plus simple aujourd'hui qu'hier.</p>
<p>Ensuite, Florence Devouard. Aussi plus connue sous le nom d'Anthere <sup>[<a href="http://notablog.notafish.com/post/2009/03/25/j-avais-en-tete-marie-curie#pnote-789-1" id="rev-pnote-789-1">1</a>]</sup>, notamment sur Wikipédia. Florence est une vraie scientifique, ingénieur <sup>[<a href="http://notablog.notafish.com/post/2009/03/25/j-avais-en-tete-marie-curie#pnote-789-2" id="rev-pnote-789-2">2</a>]</sup>agronome de son état. Elle a fait des trucs aussi dingues que de la <a href="http://www.anthere.org/spip/spip.php?article7" hreflang="fr">recherche sur la microbiologie des sols</a> et a écrit des articles aussi obscurs (pour la béotienne que je suis) que <a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Th%C3%A9ories_Ga%C3%AFa&action=history" hreflang="fr">Les théories Gaïa</a> sur Wikipédia. Aujourd'hui, elle met à profit sa rigueur scientifique dans un domaine bien différent que celui de la biologie, les pratiques du travail collaboratif en ligne. Je dis bien différent, mais finalement, cette fameuse sphère "web social" dont nous faisons partie est-elle si différente de la biosphère de notre petite planète ? À voir.</p>
<p>Enfin, Anne Cavalier. Plus connue sous le nom de <a href="http://www.kozlika.org/kozeries/" hreflang="fr">Kozlika</a>. Elle <a href="http://www.kozlika.org/kozeries/post/2004/05/03/1-first-post" hreflang="fr">ouvre son blog en 2004</a> et <a href="http://www.kozlika.org/kozeries/post/2004/05/05/3-etape1" hreflang="fr">documente</a> en pas à pas sa découverte de l'outil de blog <a href="http://dotclear.net" hreflang="fr">Dotclear</a> (qui est derrière ce blog, d'ailleurs), des css et tout le tralala. Aujourd'hui, elle est devenue l'une des plus prolifiques créatrices de <a href="http://themes.dotaddict.org/galerie-dc2/?q=kozlika" hreflang="fr">thèmes</a> pour le dit Dotclear, elle maîtrise le css comme personne et a même fini par <a href="http://wiki.kozlika.org/geekeries:moretpl" hreflang="fr">dompter les balises</a> et sa circonspection quand il s'agit de coder. Sans compter qu'elle est à l'origine de (presque toute) la documentation de Dotclear (c'est pas pour rien qu'on l'appelle la <a href="http://fr.dotclear.org/documentation/" hreflang="fr">fée de la documentation</a>) sans laquelle Dotclear ne serait pas ce qu'il est. Sa faculté à transmettre ses découvertes et son savoir est de celle dont on devrait prendre de la graine.</p>
<p>Donc voilà. Les trois femmes à qui j'avais envie de rendre hommage dans le cadre de ce "Ada Lovelace Day". Accessoirement, ce sont aussi toutes les trois des copines. ;-)</p>
<div class="footnotes"><h4>Notes</h4>
<p>[<a href="http://notablog.notafish.com/post/2009/03/25/j-avais-en-tete-marie-curie#rev-pnote-789-1" id="pnote-789-1">1</a>] Pour la petite histoire, l'anthère est une partie de la fleur.</p>
<p>[<a href="http://notablog.notafish.com/post/2009/03/25/j-avais-en-tete-marie-curie#rev-pnote-789-2" id="pnote-789-2">2</a>] Le premier qui me dit que j'aurais dû mettre <em>ingénieure</em>, je l'assomme.</p></div>
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Saut dans le vide
urn:md5:d571e4e6a1f6f056a049d87d25b1e3e5
2009-01-30T14:49:00+01:00
2009-01-30T14:51:53+01:00
notafish
L'air du temps
free as in beer
kde 42
linux
technophile
<p>OK, priez pour moi, votre dieu, grand schtroumpf ou fleur préférée, j'upgrade de Kubuntu Hardy à <a href="https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Kubuntu/KDE3-KDE4Migration" hreflang="en">Kubuntu Intrepid</a>, ce qui veut dire que je passe définitivement à KDE 4 (.2).</p>
<p>J'ai essayé KDE 4 il y a quelques semaines, sans vraiment y trouver mon compte. Mais comme le dit l'adage, no risk, no fun. Au pire, je pourrais tout supprimer et recommencer à zéro. PLus de news dans quelques heures...</p>
http://notablog.notafish.com/post/2009/01/30/saut-dans-le-vide#comment-form
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Déménagement - The Move
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2009-01-13T14:29:00+01:00
2009-01-17T00:24:06+01:00
notafish
L'air du temps
<p><img src="http://notablog.notafish.com/public/.moving_tip_m.jpg" alt="Moving tip - © RBerteig - CC-BY" title="Moving tip - © RBerteig - CC-BY, janv. 2009" /></p>
<p>Bon. Ca y est. Le déménagement est complet. C'est encore un peu le bazar dans la peinture et la tapisserie et les tapis sont pas bien en place, mais ça commence à prendre forme. J'ai bougé mon blog de Ouvaton vers 1&1, parce que malheureusement, Ouvaton ne répond plus à mes besoins, en terme de stockage et autre rapidité. Du coup vous avez peut-être eu plein de trucs bizarres dans vos flux RSS (si tant est que qui que ce soit me suive en RSS) et autre bizzarreries de suivi de liens etc. Mais je crois que je suis sur le bon chemin, ça devrait aller pour l'instant. Je travaille aux dernières touches de peinture.</p>
<p>Ok, here it is, I have finally moved this blog completely. There are still a few walls to paint and some carpets to adjust, but essentially, the move from one hosting provider to another is complete. You might have experienced funky things with your RSS feeds, or other strange happenings, but I'm almost finished. I'll be working on the last touches.</p>
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Il est minuit moins cinq
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2008-12-10T16:34:00+00:00
2009-01-15T14:08:53+00:00
notafish
L'air du temps
atomic
this world is crazy
<p>En passant par la page d'accueil de Wikipédia (je faisais des essais sur la bannière de levée de fond, pour voir ce qu'elle affichait pour mon billet sur le <a href="http://blog.notanendive.org/post/2008/12/10/Wikimedia-Fundraiser%3A-Donating-Close-to-Home" hreflang="en">fundraising Wikimedia</a>), je suis tombée sur <a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horloge_de_la_fin_du_monde" hreflang="fr">l'horloge de la fin du monde</a>.</p>
<p><img src="http://notablog.notafish.com/public/Divers/horloge.png" alt="horloge.png" title="horloge.png, janv. 2009" /></p>
<p>Y'a des trucs, quand même. Dingue.</p>
http://notablog.notafish.com/post/2008/12/10/224-il-est-minuit-moins-cinq#comment-form
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It's an Honor, Mr President
urn:md5:e02a793eb8758075385e429fe4551961
2008-11-05T12:45:42+00:00
2008-11-05T12:56:26+00:00
notafish
L'air du temps
living with the famous
twitter
<p>There is something smug about having the next president of the United States follow me on Twitter. Even if I am one in tens of thousands and it's probably not him twittering and all.</p>
<p><img src="http://notablog.notafish.com/public/Divers/twitter_obama.jpg" alt="" /></p>
http://notablog.notafish.com/post/2008/11/05/216-it-s-an-honor-mr-president#comment-form
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Habitat passif
urn:md5:bf7e93b95d9a24052be3905574a59315
2008-10-31T11:27:11+00:00
2008-10-31T11:30:56+00:00
notafish
L'air du temps
discovery architecture
<p>En passant par chez <a href="http://neokraft.net/post/2008/10/08/Des-tours-dans-Paris" hreflang="fr">Ici et ailleurs</a>, j'ai trouvé ceci :</p>
<p><a href="http://www.kjellgrenkaminsky.se/index.php?blp=49"><img src="http://www.kjellgrenkaminsky.se/files/passivhus-mittskepp-extr.jpg" alt="" /></a></p>
<blockquote><p>VILLA MITTSKEPP by kjellgrenkaminsky</p></blockquote>
<p>J'aime le nom "habitat passif<sup>[<a href="http://notablog.notafish.com/post/2008/10/31/213-habitat-passif#pnote-213-1" id="rev-pnote-213-1">1</a>]</sup>", mais je ne l'ai pas aimé tout de suite. Je le trouvait... passif.</p>
<div class="footnotes"><h4>Notes</h4>
<p>[<a href="http://notablog.notafish.com/post/2008/10/31/213-habitat-passif#rev-pnote-213-1" id="pnote-213-1">1</a>] voir <a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitat_passif">Définition sur Wikipédia</a></p></div>
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Rien à ajouter
urn:md5:6e7f00cdaa25fe58f0debe997bbf6a99
2008-06-02T16:10:06+00:00
2008-06-02T16:18:18+00:00
notafish
L'air du temps
Frankreich
this world is crazy
<p>Maître Eolas <a href="http://www.maitre-eolas.fr/2008/05/30/969-n-y-a-t-il-que-les-vierges-qui-puissent-se-marier" hreflang="fr">a tout dit</a>.</p>
<p>Et comme le disait William, voilà bien "<a href="http://shakespeare.mit.edu/much_ado/full.html" hreflang="en">Beaucoup de bruit pour rien</a>". Pauvre France en mal de ragots militants et indignés. Si j'osais, je me ferai l'écho de <a href="http://www.maitre-eolas.fr/2008/05/30/969-n-y-a-t-il-que-les-vierges-qui-puissent-se-marier#c55473" hreflang="fr">LLG</a>. Allez j'ose. Maître, je vous aime, pour ce petit calme dans un monde de criards.</p>
http://notablog.notafish.com/post/2008/06/02/209-rien-a-ajouter#comment-form
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Visite princière
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2008-04-21T13:48:14+00:00
2008-04-21T14:06:31+00:00
notafish
L'air du temps
fun is the way to go
<p>Je sors de ma torpeur pour vous faire part d'une visite qui m'a remonté le moral. Son <a href="http://blog.princessh.com" hreflang="fr">altesse princessissime</a> a envoyé en notaland un émissaire, et pas n'importe lequel. Les services d'accueil notalandais se sont empressés de noter l'effort particulièrement apprécié de porter sinon les couleurs de notaland au moins un hommage à l'histoire de notafish (voir photos ci-dessous).
<img src="http://notablog.notafish.com/public/Divers/emissaire_principeaute01_petit.jpg" alt="face, uniforme de la principauté" style="display:block; margin:0 auto;" /></p>
<p><img src="http://notablog.notafish.com/public/Divers/emissaire_principeaute02_petit.jpg" alt="pile, hommage à notafish" style="display:block; margin:0 auto;" /></p>
<p>Les services notasecrets ont rapporté que l'émissaire semblait ne plus vouloir quitter notaland, notamment parce qu'il s'était pris d'amitié pour mini-notafish, avec qui on l'a surpris en flagrant délit de calin.</p>
<p><img src="http://notablog.notafish.com/public/Divers/baby_emissaire.jpg" alt="mini notafish et l'émissaire" style="display:block; margin:0 auto;" /></p>
<p>Les services d'accueil notalandais ont promis de veiller à ce que l'émissaire principautesque (de la famille des notadoudous-but-almost) soit particulièrement bien accueilli en notaland.</p>
<p>Le gouvernement notalandais prie la principauté de bien vouloir recevoir ses meilleures salutations et ses remerciements les plus sincères pour cette preuve de considération qui le remplit de joie.</p>
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Il fait froid
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2008-01-22T10:16:02+00:00
2008-01-22T10:16:02+00:00
notafish
L'air du temps
Allemagne
this world is crazy
<p>J'aime beaucoup la météo, surtout quand elle annonce le retour du soleil et des températures entre 4 et 8 degrés. Sauf que là, tout de suite, il neige. Va comprendre.</p>
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La grange et autres histoires
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2008-01-09T21:26:44+00:00
2008-01-10T00:15:51+00:00
notafish
L'air du temps
Frankreich
mots et rythmes
now is mine
<p>Oh comme l'année commence bien !</p>
<p>Karl a rouvert les portes de <a href="http://www.la-grange.net/2008/01/01/longue-nuit" hreflang="fr">la Grange</a>, un an après les avoir fermées. Ce carnet web est une source de paix et de sérénité, une oasis de fraîcheur dans un monde de brutes. J'aime la Grange.</p>
<p>Et dans le même état d'esprit, celui des mots, je viens de finir <a href="http://muriel.barbery.net/?p=20" hreflang="fr">L'élégance du hérisson</a>. Il y avait bien longtemps que je n'avais pas lu en français et je me rends compte combien cela me manque. Pour les mots, je vous le conseille.</p>
http://notablog.notafish.com/post/2008/01/09/203-la-grange-et-autres-histoires#comment-form
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Entre le rire et les larmes, calme hasard.
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2007-09-05T13:50:15+00:00
2007-09-05T13:51:45+00:00
notafish
L'air du temps
fun is the way to go
mots et rythmes
this world is crazy
<p>Tiens hier, j'ai chargé dans <a href="http://amarok.kde.org/" hreflang="en">Amarok</a> 50 morceaux au hasard de ma mp3-thèque. Et le hasard, qui fait bien les choses, a commencé par une chanson de Louis Chédid chantée par Sol en Si (<em>T'as beau pas être beau</em>). Suivie de la <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1u2lb_muriel-robin-la-reunion-de-chantier_fun" hreflang="fr">''Réunion de chantier''</a>, de Muriel Robin, dont je n'ai pu écouter que la première minute. Aujourd'hui à midi, en préparant mon déjeuner, j'ai recommencé Muriel Robin. Et ri comme je n'ai pas ri depuis longtemps. Ri aux larmes pendant dix minutes en coupant mes tomates et lavant ma salade. Muriel Robin, ce sont des souvenirs et des sketches tellement vrai que je en peux aller au restaurant et partager l'adition sans penser à elle (sauf en Allemagne, mais c'est une autre histoire). Le rire est salvateur, en ces jours où l'été se prend pour un hiver de base.</p>
<p>Puis sortie de mes larmes de rires, le hasard continue de bien faire les choses en jouant <em>Moudja</em> (la vague) de <a href="http://notablog.notafish.com/index.php/2006/11/10/137-souad-massi-rythme-et-soleil" hreflang="fr">Souad Massi</a>, une chanson qui calme, parfaite. J'aime quand le hasard fait bien les choses.</p>
http://notablog.notafish.com/post/2007/09/05/199-entre-le-rire-et-les-larmes-calme-hasard#comment-form
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I'm losing faith
urn:md5:7bc68ba7d6d8846f0cedc4b6536443fd
2007-07-22T21:54:46+00:00
2007-07-22T21:54:46+00:00
notafish
L'air du temps
now is mine
prise de chou
<p>It happened to me once. I lost faith.</p> <p>Completely, utterly, at once. It must have been a slow process, but I remember it as a lightning strike, something that just beamed on me on day. It became evident all of a sudden. It was crystal clear.</p>
<p>I have the feeling I am losing faith again. Another kind of faith, one that believers might say is not even faith at all. It is a queezy feeling, if any. Guts churned at times, a faint sickness and a hopelessness that just sits in. Like a scene you'd close your eyes on because you realize you just don't want to remember it. You don't want to be part of it, or it to be part of you. I'm losing faith, we'll see where it takes me.</p>
http://notablog.notafish.com/post/2007/07/22/195-i-m-losing-faith#comment-form
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Sans issue
urn:md5:5edb577160deffdcb84e6a61bb706b98
2007-07-20T11:15:38+00:00
2007-07-20T11:23:27+00:00
notafish
L'air du temps
now is mine
this world is crazy
<p>Parfois ma vie ressemble un peu à ça.</p> <p>Un <a href="http://www.t45ol.com/play/562/pacman.html" hreflang="en">pacman</a> coincé entre deux fantômes.</p>
<p><img src="http://notablog.notafish.com/public/Divers/pacman.png" alt="" /></p>
<p>Je vais bien einh, j'ai juste besoin de vacances. (Et j'ai rêvé de ce Pacman. C'est bizarre, quand même).</p>
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J'ai dix billets hors ligne
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2007-06-27T18:35:20+00:00
2007-06-27T18:35:20+00:00
notafish
L'air du temps
mots et rythmes
now is mine
<p>Et un jour, je promets, je les mettrai en ligne.</p> <p>En attendant, j'écoute <em>Sultans of Swing</em> et j'ai envie de danser. J'aime Dire Straits. Ca rend la vie plus gaie. Ou triste. Enfin, ça colle à la vie, quoi.</p>
http://notablog.notafish.com/post/2007/06/27/189-j-ai-dix-billets-hors-ligne#comment-form
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Pétard... on est vieux
urn:md5:e961f6eebf17b2ac3adf4c16f643ca7f
2007-05-28T14:49:24+00:00
2007-05-28T14:55:42+00:00
notafish
L'air du temps
long ago
technophile
<p>C'était il y a deux/trois mois, lors de mes déboires Kubuntu et compagnie, dans un salon de chat sur IRC.</p>
<blockquote><p>[00:14] <Fogge> Anyone who was old enough to have internet ENTER their lives and not just be there all the time are internet "old". :)</p></blockquote>
<p>Traduction rapide :</p>
<blockquote><p>"Ceux qui étaient assez vieux pour avoir vu entrer internet dans leur vie, plutôt que de l'avoir eu là tout le temps, sont "vieux" en internet."</p></blockquote>
<p>La traduction est nulle, mais je me rapelle très clairement de l'arrivée d'internet dans ma vie. Ca ne me rajeunit pas...</p>
http://notablog.notafish.com/post/2007/05/28/173-petard-on-est-vieux#comment-form
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