JazzyMoon

This week is the London Jazz Festival, with several events and some of them for free. A few ones got my attention:

• Tammy Weis, at the Shanghai Blues

• DJ set from Rita Ray at the Royal Festival Hall

The ShanghaiBlues is a very nice venue, a Bar/Restaurant next to Holborn station. The atmosphere is cosy, the decoration mixes modern and oriental styles. Unfortunately, Timeout London didn’t precise that booking was required for that night, as the venue was full when we arrived. We were not the only one is that case, and some other people had to leave the venue.

I headed then to the Royal Festival Hall, waiting for Rita Ray. But as people started to leave, I have been told the show would start at 10.30pm, later than expected. Out of patience after having waited one hour, I left.

Most of the performances on this Friday where at 6pm. It was simply impossible for anyone to come at that time, as most of us finish work after 5.30pm. Then the free sessions in central London were disappointing or very late.

I can’t say the whole festival was a failure, as I just tried to go to just a few performances, but I can say my evening was pretty bad at the London Jazz Festival. Funnily, The best moment that night was to have a hot chocolate in an Italian shop of Leicester Square –nothing to do with Jazz, but nice in this freezing weather.

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I am working on the title of the website. I wouldn’t have thought starting blogging before having a permanent address. Anyway… I have been thinking of several possibilities, and posting may help me to find the best one.

A website address must follow the following rules:

• Easy to remember.
• Easy for pronunciation.
• The domain must not be already taken, and it is better if the .com, .net and .org domains are available.
• It must sound nice, especially for those who are supposed to use the website.
• It must have an identity.

I found an interesting post from www.seomoz.org. Other rules would apply in my case:

• Easy to spell.
• Keep it as short as possible.
• Finally the AJAX Domain checker from www.ajaxwhois.com is really useful in this case.

Considering this, I had several examples:

• ManiacTree. Can be confused by Maniac3 or ManiacThree. Sounds a bit stressful.
• ChromaticMoon. Hard to say and to spell
• JazzyMelon. Sounds good, easy to remember, but may sound a bit silly.
• NanoBlue. The .com domain is already taken

Writing that, I realise I am attached to do the association of two words, and also some of them are tongue twisters. To be continued…

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Mon premier post en Français sur ce blog. Je vais parler un peu de tout, en Français et en Anglais. Les posts en anglais devraient être plus orientés boulot et les posts en français plus loisirs, mais ça reste à voir.

Ce blog n’as pas de titre pour l’instant, et pas d’adresse. Je pensais à un truc comme EricLondon.com, mais l’adresse est déjà prise. Beaucoup de noms de domaines sont déjà réservés, ce qui devient un peu un problème. Je pense m’orienter vers un titre plutôt en anglais qui sonne bien.

Quelques outils peuvent s’avérer utiles pour trouver un nom de domaine comme www.nameboy.com qui génère des noms de domaines aléatoires à partir de mots clé, www.rinkworks.com/namegen qui génère des noms plutôt orientés Fantasy, ou www.bandnamemaker.com/generator qui crée des noms de groupes de musiques. J’en ai trouvé des marrants comme Rotten Bishop ou Bipolar Bamboo.

J’espère trouver un titre sous peu. En attendant Bienvenue sur ce Blog

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Here we go for the first post of this blog. I have been looking around for some solutions like the one proposed by Google for instance, but was more interested in more flexible solutions like WordPress, Drupal or Mambo. The interface of WordPress is quit satisfying, and allows in-depth customisation through themes, plugins and hand-coding (solution I would prefer to avoid actually ).

I started to develop from scratches an ArtBlog for some friends, www.ArtBlogCommunity.org, on the purpose of promoting their creations, but felt like reinventing the wheel. The advantage was to develop in the Microsoft Technologies though, as opposed to the free technologies provided by the PHP Group.

I will be talking about different issues here, personal and professional, and well, in two languages. Hours of plain joy for the reader . I intend to sort the posts according to their languages and their topic though, making the things a bit easier.

Hope you will enjoy. Welcome to this Weblog!

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