A friend of mine used mencoder to assemble a couple of years' worth of webcam stills of the assembly of the Atlas experiment (link to original video at the end of the post):

(note:inactivity period is christmas - new year break)

The Atlas experiment is one of the five experiments built into the LHC. The biggest hope of the LHC is to detect Higg's Boson. Each experiment have a brother which should be able to corroborate any results using a different method.

BoingBoing blogged it two days ago, so it is about time I post this video. You can find the original file without YouTube compression here ( 78.2 Mo, 704x576 ):
http://www.sharebigfile.com/file/47388/AtlasJura.avi.html.

free hugger in cornavin
Originally uploaded by nico h.

Free hugging is rounding the world ! Now in Geneva. They were reported in Lausanne 2 weeks before. I thought about taking a picture because I had previously seen this video :

bad juxtaposition
Originally uploaded by me.

Is it so that you know what to eat/what you eat ?. Reminds me of the cow in the restaurant at the end of the univers.

I took a picture this morning, while waiting for the work shuttle around 8 in the morning. Ice. On a bicycle seat. And all the other bikes were fancied up the same way. We are only starting November! Autumn really is here. The cool and warm weather of last week was just a trick (13 / 24°C vs 4/12°C these days).
The birds are gathering and flying away. Well, maybe we'll get some snow early this year.

Cheers.

Nico, out.

Hello !
This is gonna be my real first post. This blog, as you might have guess by the title, will mostly be about me (nicolas). Yeah, I know , "how original" you think. But right you are. Not original this blog will be. Disparate too. So what ;) This is the internet. I'm free to do boring things and to blog about them. I'm free to use bad. Grammar ; and punctuation. (Let's not even start about the orthograpfe). Not to abuse that privilege I will try ;). Stupid things try not to do i will (I know the internet have a memory :( ).

Most welcome, here, you are. But feel free to ignore me. I'd love to have you around though :).
Oh, and this blog might contains post in french, or in english, depending on the phase of the moon, the age of the captain and the alignement of the black holes.

Anyhow, this blog will be about some software projects I am doing, a bit about how much of an apple fanboy I am, and a big bite about plain ol'me. So, mostly noise.I'll try to output some signal from time to time;).

You be warned ;).

Nicolas, out.