Didier Beck's Weblog: May 2007

TRAVELLING: St Barth 2007 - Part I

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I would like to come back to our last trip to st barth in February/March 2007 more in detail. Why? Just because it was too fantastic and I would like to share parts of this moment with you. I will bring different posts in the coming days concerning this incredible experience.

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Introduction

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the places and moments that take our breath away.

Our last trip to St Barth beginning of March 2007 was a real "hit". Our best holidays ever... As usual, difficult to explain exactly why it was so. On the other side, if you cannot have extraordinary holidays in St Barth, it will be difficult for you to have fun somewhere else ;-)

Again, some important very positive good points which are speaking for St Barth.

The weather

The weather was absolutely fantastic this year. During 18 days there, we had about 2 hours of rain. After the rain, it is quite clear why you need a 4-wheel car on St Barth... The roads, when wet, are very slippery! So, we had about 30-32°C during the day, 24°C during the night (which is very comfortable for having dinner and smoking some cigars on the terrace ;-), 27°C in the sea (we got the impression that the Atlantic side is a bit colder than the Caribbean side, but not sure).

BLOG: Some statistics

I haven't published any statistics of didierbeck.com since some months, mainly because nothing special has happened during the last months (on this side ;-). No real active blogging means ... no increase in traffic. Quite logic ;-)

Actually, after a decrease till September last year, my blog is again gaining in traffic.

And April 2007 was my best month ever with 506'371 hits, 114'267 pageviews and 66'081 unique visitors, which have generated 15.65 GB of data transferred. Actually, I had already more unique visitors (more than 80'000 in Mai 2006), but with less hits, pageviews and data transferred. I must have a deeper look at the structure of the traffic, something is changing there.

Tags: statistics - blog - didier beck

BUSINESS: Webservice APIs

via Jeremy Zawodny

Jeremy from Yahoo has published a very interesting presentation about the "Web service APIs: The Landscape and Opportunities". Worth a read. You can find the pdf-presentation there.

Tags: web service - yahoo - jeremy zawodny

BLOG: Short holidays :-)

Dear all
We are going to Le Croisic - France for one week. I need fresh air and to see and feel the (cold) ocean to re-load!
Take care!

fort ocean

PICTURES: Ladybird

via science photo gallery

A marvelous picture of a ladybird by Syred Andrew.

Coloured scanning electron micrograph of a seven-spot ladybird beetle (Coccinella septempunctata) hovering over a flower. The ladybird's outer wings are strengthened into a hard covering (red) which protects the delicate flight wings underneath. In a scanning electron microscope (SEM), the specimen is scanned with a beam of electrons, creating photograph-like images with an exceptional depth of field. The raw black-and-white image has been naturalistically coloured on computer.