First blog...

Hello everyone, welcome to my blog
I could have made a link between this blog and the HelloWorld thing that you do each time you try to learn software programming. But this would have been stealing of a friends idea.

Well... I'm a French speaking person, so probably you'll notice a lot of errors inside my English text. I'm trying to improve my skills in english writing so I though that making a blog would be a good place to begin. If you see errors inside my text only drop me a line in the comments and tell me how I could improve. It would be kind of you.

Hummm, what should I tell you now ? Maybe who I am ? Ok, like said above, I'm a french speaking person and I live in Canada... well Quebec offcourse ! I'm a student at École de technologie supérieure in Montreal. But being a student was not enough so I decided to give some (a lot) time to a research project called SONIA. Well, I said research project because in many university a project like this one is called a research and get fund for it... but our school think differently... SONIA stands for "Système d'Opération Nautique Intelligent et Autonome" the name is french because we are all french students. The project consist of building an efficient AUV (Autonomous Underwater Vehicle) for participating to a competition held in San Diego each year. The AUV and 8 of my teammate are in San Diego right now trying to bring the first place to Montreal. You can see more about this on SONIA's own blog. Enough for the project, lets "blog" about what I'm studying... Technology! I have a DEC in informatics and I started in Software Engineering at the University but could not find everything that I like in it so I switched to IT Engineering which is a lot more technologically related than SE. We learn stuff in High Level networking, Image processing, multimedia database... Image and video compression and management technology inside the enterprise.

Beside this, I'm a Linux fan and now ... I must admit ... a Mac fan. I bough a MacBook Pro 2.2Ghz Santa Rosa and it's one of the best Laptop I ever had! The price was High but it's because I took the 3 years Apple Care and I had to pay for the iPod nano that comes with it. I'm now so a Mac fan that I surprised myself listening the keynotes ... Well Leopard, the next version of OSX will be pretty cool... but there's not much features that did not exist already in Linux. Apple is putting Space in front line and said that it's an INNOVATIVE feature ... bullshit I had virtual desktop on my Linux box since 2001 and this is only because I began to play with linux in 2001... In my opinion what will be the best features is Time Machine it looks pretty awesome! I can't wait to try it !

Well that's enough for now ... I must return to work. I'm doing an internship at Info-Electronics System at Dorval building a Verification and Validation Tracking System using Java and GWT