Just a quick note to inform you I have updated my CV to reflect my current graduated engineer status and include all my latest professional experience and skills
Check it here (French version only yet)

Good memories, and a new step in my life!

Finally, today has come! The Day, with a capital D! Why am I pretty much excited about it ?
Because this day is officially marking the end of my student life: I will attend the Graduation Ceremony of my engineering school (Télécom INT) and have in hands my diploma!

Of course, in France, I do not expect the big university ceremony that I saw in Hong-Kong or in many american movies, but still, I hope I will see again
people I met in my school and I lost contact with, and that I will keep a good memory of that moment.

Photos will come tomorrow!

I don’t like categorizing someone just with a few words, I find it so much disrespectful and unpersonnal.
I think it’s impossible to judge someone at the first glance, and even though you know people for years you are still surprised by their character and behaviour.

However, on the Internet, this is totally another story: people have integrated “tags” (aka small words) to categorize and describe anything and everything.

Well, while I was doing some research and staying updated on the latest technology & web 2.0 news, I found that Quintura (a new kind of search engine), which shows you offering a widget that showed the tags cloud related to any search you make.

So I played with it a bit and searched for my name: “borget sebastien“:

And in reverse order (funny thing, it gave slightly different results): “sebastien borget“:

This gives some interesting information on all tags associated with my activity on the web, and how people can find my website by googling (or using Quintura ^^)

However, to the question: “Am I only defined by these small words ?“, I reply that obviously not, this is not me, this is just the way you find me on the Internet

I am back from London, which is really a great city with many many places to see: museums, monuments, pubs, …

If you want to spend a nice week-end, I really advice you to go there. It’s a bit more expansive than Paris, but life is good, city is animated almost all day, people are … “british” :p

You can find the pics of all places I visited here:

Next place I want to go to: Germany !

Ah ah I got a funny story to tell. It happened today, twice.

First, I took a cab to go to the flight company to pay for my flight tickets to Iguazu. I got in the taxi, and the taxi driver (they usually don’t even speak a word of english here in Argentina) tells me after a few seconds: “Soy Francès” ? Woah, I try ask him in english how he could get it so fast, while I was telling the direction in spanish. No luck, he doesn’t speak english. Ok, I just can tell him I am french, here in Buenos Aires to spend 3 weeks and a few other words in spanish, quite short conversation but this taxi driver was a cool guy!

Then I was still wondering for the rest of the day how he got it, is that my french accent ? Though, Argentina is not really a place where you might expect a great number of french tourists to go, hence this was not that obvious I think.

Alright, then the night I go out for dinner to a quite hype and expensive restaurant to eat some great “Bife de chorizo” (it’s getting my favourite piece of meat here). As usual now, I speak in spanish to order my food, and it seems to work well as I always get what I ask At the end, when it’s time to ask for the bill, the waitress asks me if I pay by cash or by card. And then as I didn’t understood the first word for “cash” in spanish, she asks me if it not said “effective” in french. Woahhhhh ! Wait, how did she also got I was french ??? You can’t see it on my face and I spoke spanish with an “almost” spanish accent (^_^°)

Ok, here is the fact on how she could recognize it: this is not related to the accent at all, she was observing me when I was talking with her, and she said I opened my mouth only a little to pronounce the various words. And this is TYPICALLY french, we do not articulate a lot with our mouth when we speak, and only french people (lazy people lol) seem to speak like this.

Ah ah I learned a good one tonight!

No no it’s not my birthday today, but maybe for those of you who visit my site relatively often you might have noticed I changed my avatar on the top of the right menu ? This is because I am getting the new design of the website done my the same person, so you can see how much I changed in 1 year by looking at the sketches !

Me in 2006:

Me in 2007:

Oh, already one week with no new posts.

No, I am not in pause mode, I am just damn busy !!! I have prepared several interviews with many people, who are as busy as myself and so there’s nothing really new to write on my blog for the moment But I keep having ideas coming. THere will be a rush anytime soon, at least I hope.

Just to give you my daily schedule:

8:00 AM: Wake up
8:00-9:00 AM: read emails from work on my computer, reply them all
9:00 AM: shower
9:30 AM: go to work
10:00-14PM: work
14:00-14:30PM: lunch break, eat a sandwich, stay connected with work with my PDA phone
14:30:19:30-20:00PM: work again
20:30PM: Option 1: have dinner with friends in nice restaurant; Option 2: come back home and eat
22:00PM: read emails of the day (generally 100), reply them all, replies mails from work too
22:00PM-24:00PM: work again, but for myself on my sites and scripts
24:00PM-1:00AM: getting crazy, so much work, so little time, want to take a rest, watch movies …
1:00AM: I am damn tired, I am getting to bed

As you might notice, I am a workaholic !

Yeah, work keeps me in a good mood makes me crazy, but at least it changes my mind, and I really need to in this period.

Ok, next week I will show you my daily schedule when I have no work to do !