We went to the Botanical Garden today. What a great day it was.

First, my favorite picture of the day… I caught my son Lohan as he was running:

This is Louka, being funny as usual (his left eye is all swollen):

My beautiful wife is, well, beautiful:

Finally, Lohan with Anne-Sophie:

I’m far behind in sorting out my pictures, but here are two good ones. First, my wife and my son Lohan:

This is my youngest son, Louka:

I’m the luckiest man in the world!

Findory was one of the most innovative collaborative filtering application ever: it provided a recommender system to help you find interesting news. Greg is letting Findory go:

Findory appears to have sufficient resources to run on autopilot through most of 2007. Findory will eventually fade away, but I believe it has touched immortality through the impact it had.

Apparently, Greg wants “to spend more time on health and with family.” Also, it is no secret that Greg was unhappy about the popularity of the site and Findory was facing the “me too!” routine with all the big players copying his ideas or simply creating similar tools.

I think that in the coming decade, dropping projects and reducing your work load to spend more time on your family will become a cool thing to do.

Projects and companies have to come and go. We should not be slaves to our projects.

I think this is our first snow man picture!

No doubt many of your will feel relief. My picture is no longer at the top-right corner of my blog. Instead, I have done as many bloggers do: show off my skills as a photographer. Yes! I can take pictures! I resisted this trend for a long time, mostly because I could not understand it, but it finally came to me (more on this later).

Sorry though, it won’t be flowers like Tim Bray, travel pictures like Stephen Downes, or beautiful landscapes like Harold Jarche. I’ll mostly be using family pictures.

And it comes to down to why we post pictures on blogs in the first place: to show who we are. What better way to show who you are than to share what you find beautiful?

I also, finally, got Internet Explorer to display my blog properly. Somehow my brain cannot get around the fact that to center elements in HTML/CSS, you need to call upon the text-align instruction. What were the Microsoft engineers thinking? Probably something along the lines of “yep! another paycheck!”

Here is a picture of Louka and Lohan at the (Granby) zoo:

Don’t they look alike?

Later, that same day, Nathalie went swimming with Lohan, I have a pretty good zoom on my digital camera and I was able to catch this picture of them:

While the picture is a bit fuzzy, I really like the look on Nathalie’s face.