JY's Weblog

 mardi 23 avril 2002

http://www.coacoacoa.net/
  

Mandrake 8.2 for PowerPC is Out
  

SlashDot: New Cocoa/Perl Bridge Released.
  

Davos Newbies: Pervasive climate of cynicism. "I've long thought cynicism one of the most dangerous of sentiments. Its results are now plain to see in Europe. (incidentally, too many people confuse cynicism with scepticism. Scepticism is healthy and good; cynicism is destructive.) Although Chirac is certain to win the second round vote in two weeks time, the politics of intolerance, nationalism and exclusion have gained immeasureably from Sunday's result. And Le Pen now has two weeks to insinuate his poison into the general political realm."
  

Business Week: France: Who Speaks for Youth? (via Web Voice)
  

Sell What You Have Jan 5, 1997 by Dave Winer. "I remember a conversation with Jean-Louis Gassee in 1989, when he was head of Apple's product development. We were talking about the scripting software I was developing, which eventually became Frontier..."
  

Responding to John Robb, Re: Email, IM, Weblogs
  

Niutopia : Une categorie pour les weblogs francophones dans l'Open Directory !
  

BBC News: France stunned by Le Pen success "France has been shocked to the core by the unexpected success of the far-right politician, Jean-Marie Le Pen, in the first round of the country's presidential election. "
  

French Leaders Endorse Chirac "With words of shock and shame over Jean-Marie Le Pen's stunning showing, French political leaders of all stripes tucked away their differences Monday and threw support behind President Jacques Chirac in an attempt to thwart the extreme right's bid for power."
  

LeMonde.fr : L'Europe découvre avec stupeur le nouveau paysage politique français. "La défaite de Lionel Jospin est un signe de plus de la crise des gauches européennes alors que des formations de droite populistes et nationalistes ont progressé dans plusieurs pays."
  

A mail-to-weblog gateway Nicolas, Radio already does all this
  

Nicolas Lehuen: Sunday, bloody Sunday "I was reading Michael Moore's "Stupid White Men" last week and after I finished it, I told a friend of mine "OK, you think French politics are rotten, but wait until you read this book.". How naive I was."
  

La blessure, par Jean-Marie Colombani : "Dans ses premières paroles, il [Jacques Chirac] s'est placé au-delà de son camp. Au-dessus des calculs politiciens. Comme s'il était désormais conscient qu'il lui reviendra de représenter la droite et la gauche. Son histoire personnelle était jusqu'à présent celle d'une carrière politique, avec des moyens que la morale publique réprouve. Le voilà qui soudain tutoie l'Histoire. Et peut enfin jouer le rôle dont il a rêvé : être président d'une République qu'il faut réformer, pour la faire de nouveau aimer. C'est ce que nous souhaitons. Pour que ce beau pays qu'est la France, avec toutes les couleurs qui l'habitent et qui forgent déjà son avenir, garde le cap de la raison et du progrès. "
  

Political Shocker in France "Yesterday was the first round of voting for the presidential elections in France. And instead of the expected runoff between Jacques Chirac (the conservative president) and Lionel Jospin (the socialist prime minister) in two weeks, this will be an unexpected duel between the current president and the extreme-right leader (you'll find his name in the story: I cannot even type it).
It is a very sad day for France and for all the people who live in and/or like France."