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		<title>How to Make a Paypal Link NOT Button</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In some website designs Paypal buttons are just really inconvenient because the HTML code is a FORM, not always practical to integrate with CSS or other clickable things. So in many cases, you will prefer to use a standard link in &#60;a&#62; tag. Paypal doesn&#8217;t offer than by default by there&#8217;s a way : Create [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/859/how-to-make-a-paypal-link-not-button/</link>
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		<title>On the Vital Importance of Micro-Testing Business Ideas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wish that from the start, before starting any business, that I knew the secret of how start-ups successfully become big companies. Of course there are several steps in this process but I want to focus here on where 90% all die: I&#8217;ll call it start-up pregnancy, right from the start. In French, we refer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/846/on-the-vital-importance-of-micro-testing-business-ideas/</link>
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		<title>Reasons to Start-up (or not) at Your Parents House</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Europe and many parts of the &#8220;westernized&#8221; world, people usually have a negative view of the young (or not) adult who&#8217;s still living with his parents. They&#8217;d be perceived as a bummer that just can&#8217;t get a job like everyone else and still relies on their parents to survive. It&#8217;s partly true for the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/571/reasons-to-startup-at-your-parents-house/</link>
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		<title>How To Travel By Plane With a Paramotor or Powered Paraglider (PPG)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last edited : September 16th, 2011. 3rd version. If you&#8217;re the adventurer kind of nut that both likes to fly a paramotor and to travel, you&#8217;re soon going to face the question &#8220;How on Earth am I gonna get this overseas safely ?&#8221; I recently faced the huge challenge of traveling with a paramotor and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/839/how-to-travel-by-plane-with-a-paramotor-or-ppg/</link>
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		<title>Salsa In Kuala Lumpur: A Fine Selection Of The Best Spots</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Where to go dance Salsa in Kuala Lumpur? Last update on: Nov, 30th, 2011. Following a nice encounter with a CUBAN salsa instructor in Kuala Lumpur (the inevitable Lingerto) here are some of the best spots for Salsa (and possibly other latin dances like Merengue and Bachata) in Kuala Lumpur City. (List may not be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/829/salsa-in-kuala-lumpur-a-selection-of-the-best-spots/</link>
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		<title>Serious China Providers Rip-off on Shipping Costs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When you order stuff on Ebay from China for a 1/10th of the price in Europe or Northern America, and that shipping included, you can assume that shipping costs are very low. It wouldn&#8217;t be surprising if the Chinese Post or the Chinese Government put a lot of efforts to bring international shipping costs to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/803/serious-china-providers-rip-off-on-shipping-costs/</link>
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		<title>The Learning Curve Visualized: Why We Always Give Up Finally Disclosed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who has become an expert in a field will often be asked by a novice the same inevitable question &#8220;How did you become such a great singer, or dancer, or actor, etc&#8221;. If you observe carefully, the answer consistently contains something in the fashion of &#8220;It&#8217;s hard work, you have to earn it.  Nothing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/793/the-learning-curve-visualized-why-we-always-give-up-finally-disclosed/</link>
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		<title>Learning Psychology Through Marketing: Positioning, First and Last Impressions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are millions of ways of looking at the human psyche, different angles. Vets know about people by learning to deal with animals, bartenders learn through observing how people interact at bars, GPs know though the stories that people tell them, etc&#8230;Business people can learn through marketing. Magic happens when you start to look at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/786/learning-psychology-through-marketing-positioning-first-and-last-impressions/</link>
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		<title>1and1 Webhosting: Visualize The Scandalous Response Times Accross The World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Where you host your website is very important and should be ideally near your clients. &#8220;Near&#8221; doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean geographically close but &#8220;networkly&#8221; close. What matters is not how close to your visitors&#8217; homes it is, but how fast you can access that. For instance, if you live in New York City, and it takes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/779/1and1-webhosting-visualize-the-scandalous-response-times-accross-the-world/</link>
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		<title>A Week In Cambodia: First Impressions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is my first real trip to Cambodia. I had been here before but only for the utmost touristy experience: Museums in Phnom Penh (the genocide one is particularly striking) and the temples in Siem Reap&#8230;classic, and not frankly very fun unless you&#8217;re really into old stuff. I am back this time in Sihanoukville, a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/772/a-week-in-cambodia-first-impressions/</link>
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		<title>7 Powerful Marketing Rules Men Can Use To Date Women</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are two topics that I find utterly fascinating. Business and the human psyche, more particularly men-women relationships. Totally different topics aren&#8217;t they? What links could there be? Well, there is a business around men-women relationships, people selling dating DVD &#8220;systems&#8221; or writing books like the best-seller &#8220;Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus&#8221;. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/745/7-powerful-marketing-rules-men-can-use-to-date-women/</link>
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		<title>Singapore&#8217;s 2010 Great Eateries For Spice Lovers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I hate when people say &#8220;this place has the best &#8230;&#8221; because it&#8217;s the best FOR THEM. It is a very selfish way to direct people to various experiences. Unfortunately the world is ruled by such influence of people giving to ALL advice that applies only to them and the few for whom it works. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/734/great-places-to-eat-in-singapore/</link>
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		<title>8 Amazing Fitness Facts You Ignored For Sure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is a very fine selection of NO B.S. absolutely mind-blowing exercise fact that I have put together for the past 2 to 3 years. It  took me the passionate reading of dozens if not hundreds of research articles and book chapters to bump into this. I hope you enjoy it as much as I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/388/8-exercise-facts-you-ignored-for-sure/</link>
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		<title>7 Tips To Avoid Killing Your Business With Email-Marketing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have used email marketing for about 2 years now, most of it in the wrong way because I did what most beginners do. Only now do I understand the serious danger of not knowing the following. For instance, did you know that if more than 1 person OUT OF 1000 click your email into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/704/how-not-to-kill-your-business-with-email-marketing/</link>
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		<title>Où faire de la muscu à Paris</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Si vous voulez le top du top et que le budget est vraiment le dernier de vos soucis, et que ça vous dérange pas d&#8217;aller parfois loin, c&#8217;est déjà résolu; trouvez le Fitness First qui vous arrange. C&#8217;est le must absolu avant la salle privé pour les célébrités. Sinon : Le site de la Marie [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/695/ou-faire-de-la-muscu-a-paris/</link>
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		<title>Comment désimlocker (désimlocker) votre mobile Orange ?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[C&#8217;est simple, soit on passe par les 36 numéros de services clients pour les faire de fond en comble et n&#8217;avoir ni la bonne option ni une personne humaine au bout du fil, soit on se résoud comme moi à téléphoner au numéro d&#8217;appel depuis l&#8217;étranger et on parle avec un nana très sympa qui [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/609/comment-desimlocker-desimlocker-votre-mobile-orange/</link>
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		<title>Is PHP still cool or should you learn a better language?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mailchimp is an email marketing online tool that allows business to cleverly manage their email campaigns. It is wonderfully developed, looks wonderful, so well that I consider it a model of what a web 2.0 site should be like. In a recent post of Chad, a member of the Mailchimp team, he mentioned how a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/658/is-php-still-cool-or-should-you-learn-a-better-language/</link>
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		<title>How to Share a Single PC with Multiple Screens, Mice, Keyboards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was thinking&#8230;that most PCs out there are seldom used to their maximum capacity. The modern office man could do 80% of his work inside a single Firefox window. Why aren&#8217;t all computers in major companies having their computer processing centralized, with on the desks only the display keyboard and mouse? It turns out that, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/652/how-to-share-a-single-pc-with-multiple-screens-mice-keyboards/</link>
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		<title>Prestashop Returns with any Order Status</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you have an online sales website based on Prestashop, you must have experienced returns of products for either a refund of a change of product. If you are not familiar with how to do returns using Prestashop, read these first: Merchandise return (RMAs) in Prestashop And in French, you have these two good articles: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/645/prestashop-returns-with-any-order-status/</link>
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		<title>Keyboard Shortcuts For Special Characters on Mac</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is gold, an insane yet simple time saver if you are a French or Spanish man on a Qwerty Macbook or so.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/617/keyboard-shortcuts-for-special-characters-on-mac/</link>
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		<title>Comment débloquer (désimlocker) mon téléphone mobile Orange sans passer par un répondeur automatique</title>
		<description><![CDATA[C&#8217;est simple, soit on passe par les 36 numéros de services clients pour les faire de fond en comble et n&#8217;avoir ni la bonne option ni une personne humaine au bout du fil, soit on est efficace et on se résoud comme moi à téléphoner au numéro d&#8217;appel depuis l&#8217;étranger et on parle à un nana très [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/610/comment-debloquer-desimlocker-mon-telephone-mobile-orange-sans-passer-par-un-repondeur-automatique/</link>
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		<title>We Live in a Wonderful World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A popular proverb says &#8220;Have and do what you love, or at least love what you do and have&#8221;. Although a fair supporter of the idea of pursuing one&#8217;s dreams, there is something just as necessary, fulfilling, and yet easier to achieve: it&#8217;s the &#8220;love what you have&#8221; part. Because we grew up in the 20th [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/593/we-live-in-a-wonderful-world/</link>
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		<title>7 Basic Features Gmail Should Have</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(&#8220;GMAL&#8221; which read in French means &#8220;I feel pain&#8221;) GMAIL has been a great innovator 5 years ago, mostly by the 3 pillar features : organizing emails by conversations, proving a robust spam detector, and a powerful search tool to find emails. But like many companies that reach the top, the Gmail team, amongst other [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/583/7-basic-features-gmail-should-have/</link>
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		<title>Climbing Mount Kinabalu</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re around South-East Asia, you like nature, gorgeous sunrises and sunsets, challenge, and you&#8217;re in good physical condition, then I do recommend that you go for climbing the 4000+ meters of Mt Kinabalu. Here is some very valuable advice from someone who&#8217;s done it in the worst possible conditions and learned from it for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/513/climbing-mount-kinabalu/</link>
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		<title>How to Import a DVD in Imovie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Search no more : http://www.moviesmac.com/tutorial/dvd-imovie-mac.html Note that importing an image file into Imovie automatically desinterlaces the frames. You can also check out Handbrake and MPEG Streamclip, it involves more work but gets the job done too.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/575/how-to-import-a-dvd-in-imovie/</link>
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		<title>Trick for 30% performance increase in leg cul</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Can&#8217;t quite explain why it works, but a common mistake was to not care about how legs are, and this corrections brought about a 30% increase. Always good to take. Figured out that bringing the feet towards the body passed me from 9.5 reps to 12 reps, which means a fatigue at higher intensity, precisely [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/559/trick-for-30-performance-increase-in-leg-cul/</link>
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		<title>Zlio &#8211; Interesting business model</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Zlio is a selling platform that allows anyone to create in 5 minutes their boutique online without having to handle stocks or customer service. The products can be chosen among a list provided by massive vendors such as Amazon, AppleStore and others. Boutique owners get a fee anytime they sell something. Interesting business model, although [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/557/zlio-interesting-business-model/</link>
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		<title>How to convert performance between machines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the deal, you push a chest press, say 70kg, you reach fatigue at 8 reps. You change gym, different chest press, same weight:70 kg, FIVE reps to fatigue, What the hell ??? Or&#8230;you&#8217;re in competition with a friend of yours (friendly competition is good, it provides motivation and results), he tells you his performance [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/524/how-to-convert-performance-between-machines/</link>
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		<title>Former CEO of Lockheed Martin on Competitiveness of Developed Nations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, Norman AUGUSTINE, former CEO of the main US Defense Company LOCKHEED MARTIN, came to give a talk at NUS on the challenges that Developed Nations are facing. After introducing with the fact that the technological advances recently have suppressed a lot of distance between people, he went on saying that a lot of work [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/516/former-ceo-of-lockheed-martin-on-competitiveness-in-developed-nations/</link>
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		<title>On Losing Strength Gains &#8211; Some Interesting Numbers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The main worry of most athletes and trainers, whether they perform resistance training or aerobics, is how fast they can progress. A question that should be addressed with a lot more attention is: If I stop training, how much of what I gained am I going to lose? The numbers are quite striking and much [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/504/on-losing-strength-gains-some-interesting-numbers/</link>
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		<title>4 Innovative Resistance Training Methods</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ok, if you workout  by doing the same stuff you find on all websites: forget about all that, it&#8217;s bullshit. I mean it may work but it&#8217;s obsolete and inefficient. You need to train smartly basing your action on science and research rather than recommendations of popular gorillas. When you look like him you are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/479/4-innovative-resistance-training-methods/</link>
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		<title>The Magic Virtues of Mind Maps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mind maps are a tool used to represent ideas or virtually any form of data in a hierarchical way. It allows you to build trees of information and link clouds between each other. I was very sceptical about their usefulness when I was first introduced to them. After a year of use, I can only [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/443/the-magic-virtues-of-mind-maps/</link>
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		<title>Yet Another Trip to Northern Thailand</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yeah, I know you are all tired of me writing about how much I had fun, but guess where I am back from? I recently came back from Northern Thailand, more precisely Chiang Mai. After a quick transition in Bangkok (Tuesday), mainly to check out the (morning) floating market about 2 hours south of Bangkok [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/411/yet-another-trip-to-northern-thailand/</link>
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		<title>Exploring a Novel Non-invasive Method of Obtaining Muscle Composition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a previous article (Two-set prediction of 1 Rep Max), I presented Matt Brizky&#8217;s two-set method for 1RM prediction. It is indeed a much better metric for physical performance assessment than all those calculators based on averages. I would like to explore to what extent muscle composition can be extracted from the KG vs. REPs [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/435/exploring-a-non-intrusive-method-of-obtaining-muscle-composition/</link>
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		<title>Stevie Wonder &#8211; Free</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Free like the river Flowin&#8217; freely through infinity Free to be sure of What I am and who I need not be Free from all worries Worries prey on oneself&#8217;s troubled mind Freer than the clock&#8217;s hands Tickin&#8217; way the times Freer than the meaning of free that man defines Life running through me Till [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/433/stevie-wonder-free/</link>
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		<title>Ever Thought of Parachutes on Airplanes? Stunning Cost Study</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This could be you during an air plane crash Among all means of transportations, air planes are relatively tremendously safe. Only problem though, unlike being a car driver, once the plane is launched, you don&#8217;t really choose your speed or to fly safely. It&#8217;s all going fast and high. IF something wrong happens, you&#8217;re very [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/421/ever-though-of-parachutes-on-airplanes-stunning-cost-study/</link>
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		<title>Nutella Zero, est-ce vraiment possible ?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Suite au succès incontestable du Coca-cola zéro, une version infecte et pleine de chimie d&#8217;un produit déjà pas très bon (pour la santé) mais bon quand même, le public a été jusqu&#8217;à créer un groupe Facebook (Pour la création du &#8220;Nutella Zero)suppliant Ferrero de mettre au point un Nutella Zero. Tout le plaisir du Nutella [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/414/nutella-zero-est-ce-vraiment-possible/</link>
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		<title>The Chocking Truth of the Food Industry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having lately been utterly hooked to the series of speeches on TED.com, I bumped into this speech titled &#8220;What&#8217;s wrong with what we eat&#8221;. It depicts the history of food consumption in the United States, which in fact is exactly the same as in most &#8220;developed&#8221;. In this field the US indeed played a precursor [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/409/the-chocking-truth-of-the-food-industry/</link>
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		<title>Semantic Web and Emerging Fields</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s interesting sometimes to project oneself in what we think the future will be and try to foresee what it will allow. Predicting the future is however not the easiest task but there is a few predictions that have a very high probability of happening. Among them, and it will deeply change the way we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/404/semantic-web-and-emerging-fields/</link>
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		<title>Intraview #4 15/05/2009.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ça faisait longtemps, je vous le concède. L&#8217;activité du blog est proportionnelle à 3 choses : Le temps que je perds tous les jours à lire des tonnes de flux RSS Le temps d&#8217;éveil qui n&#8217;est pas passé à travailler sur la thèse L&#8217;inspiration Pourquoi j&#8217;écris aujourd&#8217;hui ? Aucune de ces trois raisons bizarrement, je [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/392/intraview-4-15052009/</link>
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		<title>Tim Ferris, a new source of inspiration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In real life, this kind of superman usually scares people. Indeed, people don&#8217;t like to be proven that humans (just like them) can do incredible things when (unlike them) they strongly believe in it and aren&#8217;t afraid of failure. Tim Ferris is this superman. This guy is probably going to remain my biggest inspiration for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/383/tim-ferris-a-new-source-of-inspiration/</link>
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		<title>Manhattan Napping Salon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Neither fundamentally innovating nor world-changing, this business idea doesn&#8217;t go however without getting my support. It&#8217;s about offering not products or services, but experiences, the meaningful kind. French Entrepreneur Nicolas Ronco started in Manhattan a napping salon. Now you have an alternative to maintain a flexible lifestyle if your job application for Google was rejected. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/381/manhattan-napping-salon/</link>
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		<title>Applied Future Prediction : User Interfaces</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I want to applause with four hands that I don&#8217;t have the speaker in this video. Dennis Wixon (Microsoft Surface) brings in this video an approach to predicting the future of any technology. His field of expertise is Human Machine Interaction, but the scientific approach he uses to foresee the coming technologies is really universal. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/374/applied-future-prediction-user-interfaces/</link>
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		<title>Water Sports in Singapore</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many foreigners coming to live in Singapore sooner or later complain about Singapour being a boring island with nothing to do in it. No wonder the multiplicity of Singapore&#8217;s cultural events is a funny joke for a Parisian or a New Yorker. Yet there is a few non-cultural activities one can do on evenings or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/368/water-sports-in-singapore/</link>
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		<title>Singapour &#8211; Premières Impressions (Reloaded)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Après plus d&#8217;un an sur ce petit point rouge du planisphère, je souhaite revenir sur les premières impressions exprimées l&#8217;an dernier dans &#8220;Singapour &#8211; Premières impressions&#8221; pour donner une image un peu plus terre-à-terre de la vie à Singapour. Cout de la vie Je reste sur ma position, Singapour offre un pouvoir d&#8217;achat sensiblement plus [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/362/singapour-premieres-impressions-reloaded/</link>
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		<title>360° Panorama Video &#8211; Amazing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After you&#8217;ve seen how beautiful panoramic pictures can be, you will quickly want to apply that to video. Well, they&#8217;ve done it, and I must say it looks pretty nice. Check this out. Based on the processing time for a high resolution panoramic picture (a matter of one to several hours for about 100 pictures), [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/359/360%c2%b0-panorama-video-amazing/</link>
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		<title>Interactive Advertising: Fitness First&#8217;s Bus Shelter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a mode of advertising that I fancy very much. No more general &#8220;Because you are worth it&#8221;, faking to make you special while it&#8217;s in fact targeting mass public. In Rotterdam, Fitness First, an international chain of fitness rooms, has designed this really cool bus shelter a few meters away from their fitness [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/352/interactive-advertising-fitness-firsts-bus-shelter/</link>
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		<title>Torch Paperwork Efficiently From Your PC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is nothing more tedious than having to juggle between faxes, printers and scanners to get some paperwork done.I am collecting and sharing whatever (free or cheap) tool allows to free human people from the inhuman task of having to torch hours of paperwork. FAXING : Send a FAX online http://www.popfax.com This website offers you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/314/torch-paperwork-efficiently-from-your-pc/</link>
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		<title>Thailand &amp; Laos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thailand The first marking experience you have in Thailand is definitely the people. &#8220;Thailand&#8221; literally means the country of a thousand smiles and that you will agree of when you land there. Prices are fairly cheap for food, accommodation and goods, from 2 to 4 times cheaper than in Singapore, which is already roughly from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/305/thailand-laos/</link>
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		<title>The Sad Reality of Peer-Reviewed Scientific Research</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Scientific journals, even the most popular peer-reviewed ones, remain human organizations and therefore cannot avoid the human imperfection in rationality. The process of peer-reviewing consists of having other contributors of a research journal read and criticise on your proposed article prior to publication. Usually several researchers are solicited and hold the responsibility of making sure [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/296/the-sad-reality-of-peer-reviewed-scientific-research/</link>
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		<title>How to calculate total raised mass and body submass</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, in fitness exercises, the exercising individual would have to raise a part of their body (body submass) as an exercise. Eventually the body submass raised can be associated with an extra free weight to add intensity to the exercise. A typical problem is to log this type of exercises properly. Exercises raising purely a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/289/how-to-calculate-total-raised-mass-and-body-submass/</link>
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		<title>Computing in the 21st&#8230;year before Christ</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft Research and Microsoft Research Asia organize every year a conference called &#8220;Computing in the 21st century&#8221;. The subtitle was &#8220;New Horizon of Computing&#8221;. This year&#8217;s version had no less than 3 Turing award winners (Turing awards are something like the Nobel Prize of computing), the Senior Vice President of Microsoft, and a Managing Director [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/282/computing-in-the-21styear-before-christ/</link>
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		<title>Perpetual Motion Is The People Looking For It</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a lot of buzz on Youtube on what is referred to as being a permanent source of energy: Perendev or Bedini motors. The mere idea of &#8220;free energy&#8221; and perpetual movement necessarily sounds idiotic to any scientist or researcher, yet the large popularity of any topic always leaves a glimpse of doubt to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/271/perpetual-motion-is-the-people-looking-for-it/</link>
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		<title>How to Write a Research Proposal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While sorting my desk I found back a summary that I had written based on the excellent yet simple NSF recommendations on writing a Research Proposal : Twelve Steps to a Winning Research Proposal by George Hazelrigg. To a large extent, this advice can be applied to business proposals as well, aiming for a contest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/265/how-to-write-a-research-proposal/</link>
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		<title>What Really Happened in Roswell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What happenned in 1947 in Roswell is probably so far the biggest lye organised by the US government. Find out why in this really enjoyable lecture in 3 parts made by Prof. Muller from the University of Berkeley. It raises interesting political questions. In the case of Roswell, it was easy for the US citizens [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/262/what-really-happened-in-roswell/</link>
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		<title>Problem Solving: Problems, Symptoms, and Remedies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When facing what seems to be a problem, we nearly always cure/fix the symptoms and not the core issue itself. Distinguishing symptoms from the problem itself is however quite simple. Symptoms, a necessary alarm There is nothing more natural for a person than wait for symptoms to come up so as to identify a given [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/185/problem-solving-problems-symptoms-and-remedies/</link>
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		<title>Recession says &#8220;Your wish is my command&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know you just read Recession in the title and just want to run away read something less stressing. Just hold it&#8217;s right there! The fact that there is a crisis, a pretty bad one, is undeniable. HOWEVER people, and in particular entrepreneurs and venture capitalists (VCs) have bought it so much that they just [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/252/recession-says-your-wish-is-my-command/</link>
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		<title>Keyboards Electromagnetic Leakage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The financial crisis is expected to foster larger efforts in software security. This (not so) new finding about physical hacking (retrieving electromagnetic signal) however suggests that efforts will have to be made on the hardware as well. In the case of keyboards, it should not be anything too hard. Coating everything with a thin layer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/243/keyboards-electromagnetic-leakage/</link>
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		<title>The Divine Beauty of Capoeira</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Capoeira is the essence of fitness and balance. It&#8217;s all about a fine harmony of flexibility, strength, control, speed, rhythm, playfulness and community sharing. Look at these beautiful videos. One the most aesthetic video I found so far: Another one in the same fashion: And an excellent extract of a movie featuring almighty Muay Thai [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/237/the-divine-beauty-of-capoeira/</link>
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		<title>Show your Skype online status with SkypeWeb</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While browsing a commercial website today, I came across a skype-looking logo on the side saying &#8220;I&#8217;m offline&#8221;. A few keywords in a popular search engine ( I am tryin to not say its name for a whole week) yield what I had been looking for : A way to include your skype status on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/231/show-your-skype-online-status-with-skypeweb/</link>
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		<title>How to commercialize your invention</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this excellent article published in Fortune Magazine, Chuck Huff (Invention Marketing Expert) and George Davison (Product Development Manager) bring their lights and advice on the key steps to commecialize an invention. To a wide extent, this approach can be applied to business ideas that don&#8217;t rely on a patent, especially the last part on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/228/how-to-commercialize-your-invention/</link>
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		<title>Single-Set Strength Conditionning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most training programs suggest to perform at least 3 sets of the same exercise. This advice has been consistently repeated from the top trainers and bodybuilders over the past 50 years. Recently only, research started questioning the importance of the 3 sets, by comparing the results with one, two, and three sets on large sets [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/182/single-set-strength-conditionning/</link>
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		<title>Working Out: The Picky Questions That Make a Difference</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you have been seriously enough at the gym, you must have asked yourself at least one of these questions, if not all. They finally were given a clear documented answer. Should I do all the sets of one exercise and rest in between or can I do cycles so I can move right away [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/206/working-out-the-picky-questions-that-make-a-difference/</link>
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		<title>The Best Indian Food in SG</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Try Anjappar ! Anjappar is a restaurant chain that sells Chettinaad dishes. Chettinaad is a region of southern India very renowned for their local cuisine. They have a stall at NUS (Prince George Park Residence), it was delicious. I rarely asked to shake the cook&#8217;s hand but this time I did because great food deserves [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/199/the-best-indian-food-in-sg/</link>
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		<title>Knowledge Management: The Knowledge Iceberg</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Research papers often present interesting results to the community by mentioning alongside the conditions under which they obtained these results. It is not generally advised to bring up the thousands of tries (generally failures) with a comprehensive list of the changes of parameters to obtain incrementally something successful. Some of those changes you do in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/196/knowledge-management-the-knowledge-iceberg/</link>
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		<title>Remove All Stains From Your Clothes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having been awarded no less than 9 Clumsiness Gold Medals at the Beijing Olympic Games 2008, I stand proudly and admit freely that my clothes do not last long without experiencing stains of all sorts. Feeling tired of web-searching and re-re-reading the same cleaning solutions over and over again, I have compiled here the not-so-magic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/188/remove-all-stains-from-your-cloth/</link>
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		<title>Two-set prediction of 1 Rep Max</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In strength conditioning (weight-based) the one rep max (1RM) refers to the maximum weight you can do ONE and ONLY ONE repetition with. In a previous article, I listed the many reasons why this number should be kept as an indicator for strength assessment. One shall avoid however pulling that weight because it is heavy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/169/two-set-prediction-of-1-rep-max/</link>
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		<title>Pyramid of Needs in Singapore &#8211; v2.0</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to Abraham Maslow, human needs are to be sorted by priority into 5 levels, thus forming a pyramid. First, Maslow&#8217;s official pyramid, followed by&#8230;a version adapted for Singapore And&#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/163/pyramid-of-needs-in-singapore/</link>
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		<title>Intraview Episode 3 &#8211; Busy Summertime</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First of all, all apologies are to be presented to the few readers of this category. The intraviews were supposed to be very monthly but things got very busy. It&#8217;s not there was no time for it, it&#8217;s just the mind was somewhere else. NUS: The Exams and Lectures Experience Last intraview was before the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/160/intraview-4-busy-summertime/</link>
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		<title>HOW TO Set Up a Shared Printer on Linux at NUS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although Singapore and more specifically NUS seems to have absolutely NO IDEA what Linux is, you may want to set up Linux on your desk at some point of time. And a few days later you will, like me, realize you have not set your lab&#8217;s printer and start struggle with that. I did, so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/151/how-to-set-up-a-shared-printer-on-linux-at-nus/</link>
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		<title>The Ultimate Guide On How To Start At The Gym</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NB: This article is obsolete, use the Two-set 1RM prediction method instead of the calculator mentioned below. This article will intentionally not be very comprehensive due to the vast amount of information available online. I will therefore insist on what I NEVER find on workout websites. SUMMARY THE GYM TOUR MOTIVATION: HAVE PRECISE OBJECTIVES DOCUMENT [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/140/the-ultimate-guide-on-how-to-start-at-the-gym/</link>
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		<title>How to Use Toilets For Free in Paris Bars and Restaurants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Unbelievable but true, this is indeed a post about&#8230;yep: Toilets The city of Paris faces a huge lack in the number of those public facilities. Anyone who has been to Paris knows that and it&#8217;s one of the very few reasons why I hate Paris at times. Not only there is not enough but they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/139/how-to-use-toilets-for-free-in-paris-bars-and-restaurants/</link>
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		<title>Logement étudiant en Essonne</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Je le dis et je le répète, le statut d&#8217;étudiant est extraordinairement avantageux ! Vous cherchez un logement étudiant en Essonne ? Avec la liste qui vous est fournie ci-dessous, profitez de votre statut avant d&#8217;aller vider votre portefeuille chez les agences immobilières EVRY CROUS : ATTENTION DOSSIERS A REMPLIR DE JANVIER A AVRIL Les [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/136/logement-etudiant-en-essonne/</link>
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		<title>On Supplementing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having been working out for now about 8 months, I&#8217;ve come across about 6 common types of individuals that hit the gym fairly frequently: Type 1 By far the most common : &#8220;I have been rather skinny so I want to gain muscle&#8221; Type 2 Still quite common : &#8220;I am (or have some extra) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/132/on-supplementing/</link>
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		<title>Buying Books in Singapore</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although buying and reading books may not be listed in the favourite hobbies in Singapore (although shopping for books could be), you may need, at some point of time, to purchase a book. Forget about Amazon, there is no Amazon Singapore, besides so far I found no Amazon website that accepts to do international shipping [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/130/buying-books-in-singapore/</link>
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		<title>The Best Bakery in Paris</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are going to Paris, no matter whether you are French or foreigner, you must consider some bread and bakeries touring. There is official rankings of bakeries and yearly awards of the Best Baguette Award and such things, which you may want to try. In the following I apologize for the low quality of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/128/the-best-bakery-in-paris/</link>
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		<title>Posture: Step Zero for a Healthy and Fit-looking Body</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Posture is the way you hold yourself, it&#8217;s the way you stand, the way you sit, any other common still position. I have seen quite a number of people hitting the gym because they to develop their chest, shoulders or back, to have the so aimed-for &#8220;V shape&#8221;. Then you would just look how they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/127/posture-step-zero-for-a-healthy-and-fit-looking-body/</link>
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		<title>An introduction to telecommunications&#8230;in Singapore</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is 3 mobile phone networks in Singapore, by order of popularity : Singtel Starhub M1 They are said to be equivalent, I haven&#8217;t really been through a serious study of their prices, I was at Starhub and paid on average 36 S$ per month for ton of sms and quite a lot of phone [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/126/an-introduction-to-telecommunicationsin-singapore/</link>
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		<title>Setting up a business in Singapore</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Currently looking forward to start some business activity in Singapore, I was seriously wondering how that is done AS A FOREIGNER of Singapore. Briefly, you either start a &#8220;business&#8221; (French equivalent: EURL), with one person only, your income is taxed based on Income Tax, or your &#8220;company&#8221; (French equivalent: SARL), in which at least two [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/125/setting-up-a-business-in-singapore/</link>
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		<title>The Biggest Drawing In The World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love when technology or science serve the purpose of artistic creativity! This artist send a GPS suitcase allover the world to draw a self-portrait! I love the idea ! http://biggestdrawingintheworld.com/drawing.aspx]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/123/the-biggest-drawing-in-the-world/</link>
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		<title>Singapore And Creativity: Two Separate Islands</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first thing that shocked me a few weeks after my arrival in Singapore is how bureaucratic the whole system is. But to a certain extent that&#8217;s fine when you come from a country like France. The real problem is the lack of flexibility, or shall I go further and say creativity. Typical example: Suppose [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/121/singapore-and-creativity-two-seperate-islands/</link>
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		<title>Le Footsie Bar: For Finance Workoholics Only</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Think of a bar where you would buy your drinks depending on offer and demand, that&#8217;s the Footsie bar. It is said to be the favourite bar of Jerome Kerviel he did really good there and could get 30 cocktails for less than 50 Euros&#8230;no wonder it affected his performances during daytime! The more a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/120/le-footsie-bar-for-finance-workoholics-only/</link>
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		<title>A Healty Entrepreneur Lifestyle Far From Stereotypes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a number of seducing aspects of being an entrepreneur and running you own company. As for any other job, one is how it is IMAGE. For most jobs there is no real danger or risk in giving a lot of importance to the image you are giving through your job. But when it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/119/a-healty-entrepreneur-lifestyle-far-from-stereotypes/</link>
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		<title>Facebook Satire &amp; Parodies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is a neat video of what Facebook would be like in real life: Embedded Video Other fun Facebook related videos: An off-Facebook group inviting to  boycott Facebook. Embedded Video A fake add,not bad. Embedded Video &#160; &#160;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/118/facebook-what-is-a-friend/</link>
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		<title>Lucid Dreaming, Your Bridge To The Matrix</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I tell people I can fly, not without an ounce of provocation, I get those funny looks, just as expected&#8230; Of course I cannot fly, but who told you I was talking about real life? From a person to another, people experience various levels of the feel of reality in dreams. When I have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/117/lucid-dreaming-your-bridge-to-the-matrix/</link>
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		<title>Track people&#8217;s interest in YOU: Statcounter.com</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s simple, you have GOT to read this if you are: a student, that may soon need to look for an internship. soon to seek a job and want to assess quantitatively how much interest your recruiters show for your application. a blogger and want the most detailed information about visits. You can try here [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/115/track-peoples-interest-in-you-statcountercom/</link>
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		<title>Age &amp; Language-Learning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I was looking for a limited a list of words I should go for first when learning a new language, I bumped into this interesting paragraph from this blog. No computer program can change the fact that, for whatever reason, learning a language is hard for adults. Rosetta Stone seeks to emulate a child&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/116/age-language-learning/</link>
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		<title>Parfois On Se Dit Qu&#8217;On A Vraiment Une Vie de M****</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ceci n&#8217;est pas un billet ou je m&#8217;etale sans fin sur mes malheurs&#8230; Bien au contraire, je partage avec vous ce qui vous procurera 5 minutes de fou rire la premiere fois, puis 2 minutes de sourire par jour. Rire et sourire, c&#8217;est tres bon pour la sante mentale. En quand ca va bien la [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/114/parfois-on-se-dit-quon-a-vraiment-une-vie-de-m/</link>
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		<title>The Whatever Kid</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whatever humor exists, it is based on surprise. A typical situation at which a kid can be a lot of fun is when it tries to (or you make him) behave or say things like an adult would. Just tell me how cute is this baby saying &#8220;what-eveeer&#8221; with so much elegance and womenhood!]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/113/when-kids-speak-like-adults/</link>
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		<title>Light Grafitti</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How cool is this?  A very progressive type of art, not surprisingly coming straight from Germany: LichtFaktor, a group of artists that became famous for their light grafittis. I love the concept, very innovative. Finally a solution to keep the good things of graffiti without being out the law and troublesome, nor buying paint. Besides, the 3D aspect and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/112/light-grafitti/</link>
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		<title>Income &amp; Company Tax: France vs. Singapore Duel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I roughly compared the income and company tax in Singapore and in France. France : Company Tax = 36% / Income Tax = 40% if you earn over 65K Euros / year. Singapore : Company tax = 22% / Income Tax = 15% up to 60K Euros / year and the max is 20% [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/111/income-company-tax-france-vs-singapore-duel/</link>
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		<title>Featuring Flight Of The Conchords</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, I am coming to you with a great, great little but fun band from New Zealand. Using music as a vector of humour is something mastered in. With their hilarious lyrics, great voices, and very expressive face and body expressions, it looks more like a sit-up comedy show than like a music performance. Ladies and Gentlemen, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/110/featuring-flight-of-the-conchords/</link>
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		<title>L&#8217;experience Typique du Novice aux Concerts de Classique</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Désolé pour les erreurs d&#8217;orthographe: vive les claviers qwerty&#8230;(et le Bescherelle) A force d&#8217;être toujours partant quand on me propose des activités de prime abord farfelues, on finit par se retrouver dans des situations assez amusantes. Imaginez Youcef, qui a grandi dans son petit village perdu (Beauville) dans le Lot-et-Garonne, issu d&#8217;une famille pour le moins modeste, première génération [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/109/lexperience-typique-du-novice-aux-concerts-de-classique/</link>
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		<title>16 Things I Wish They Had Taught Me in School</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Very insightful content. I used to like to convince myself that I am too busy and have to many things to do. This article helped me realize how to save time, reduce stress, and handle more stuff and better! I particularly suggest the Parkinson&#8217;s Law. You well read it and say &#8220;Yeah, that&#8217;s so true&#8230;&#8221;. Also, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/108/16-things-i-wish-they-had-taught-me-in-school/</link>
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		<title>Text-To-Speech Or Recorded Voice? The Border Becomes Unclear.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Around year 2000, I had tested AT&#38;T Natural Voices and was quite surprised out of the quality of the results that it can yield. But Acapela seems to be giving AT&#38;T quite a hard time (provided that it&#8217;s not in fact the same project). It becomes now very hard to figure out whether some speech [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/107/text-to-speech-or-recorded-voice-the-border-becomes-unclear/</link>
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		<title>12 Tips to Improve the Quality of Your Free Time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For those whom can afford free time (barely my case, at least I like to believe so). It is about how to make your free time less boring, and productive in a fun and enjoyable way. Quite insightful: Are you happier at your job, or during your free time? Unless you’ve followed the research of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/106/12-tips-to-improve-the-quality-of-your-free-time/</link>
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		<title>Become Top-Model Within Few Hours</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is something that must make you feel less frustrated next time you look at those beautiful models in the magazines, with their perfect skin, perfect body lines and face features&#8230; And if in spite of this there remains an ounce of doubt, watch this, away from meals is preferable.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/105/become-top-model-within-few-hours/</link>
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		<title>Intraview Episode 2: The Entrepreneurship Adventure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday was the 13th of the month. I have decided that the 13th of each month would be a particular day for me. This has been done in the same convention that people used to decide that a year contains 365.25 days and is composed of 12 months and that a week is seven days, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/104/intraview-episode-2-the-entrepreneurship-adventure/</link>
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		<title>Chinese Education And Richness Durability</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having so far spent 3 months in Singapore, where I met a fairly important number of Chinese people from China and Singaporeans with Chinese origins, I have realised how peculiar for a European the family richness transfer is in Chinese-type cultures. Basically, it is a common thing that the most established family wealth does not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/103/chinese-education-and-richness-durability/</link>
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		<title>Master The Crowd</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Does it happen to you to be in some crown let&#8217;s say in a metro station, and people as usual walk in random directions, it is stressful and just makes everybody walk slower. So eventually every now and then you would boost your brain and try and predict the shortest path but it takes a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/102/master-the-crowd/</link>
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		<title>Genetics To Invade Social Networks, Insane But Real.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Online Social Networks : How to cross the bottom line ? GENETICS. Forget about Facebook and Meetic, 23andme.com, a website specialised in individual DNA analysis (which in an acceptable and innovative service), prepares a transformation into a dating/networking website based on people&#8217;s genetic code. Facebook has that application called &#8220;The Most Likely&#8221; which invites your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/101/genetics-invade-social-networks-insane-but-real/</link>
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		<title>Harvard / Altran Course On Innovation In Science And Engineering</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Harvard / Altran course &#8220;Innovation in Science and Engineering&#8221; is a course that addresses students in any Grandes Ecoles or universities based in Île-de-France. From April to May 2007, four student from INT took this course. Namely Florian Fainelli, William Germain, Youssef Barhomi and myself Youcef Banouni. I am posting this article primarily for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/100/harvard-altran-course-on-innovation-in-science-and-engineering/</link>
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		<title>How To Sleep Like Normal People Or Even Better</title>
		<description><![CDATA[26.5 years! That&#8217;s the average amount of sleep for a person in their lifetime. In other words if we were to put altogether your sleeping time, you would sleep for 26.5 YEARS STRAIGHT !!! So yeah, since it takes quite some time, it must be important, and you better know how to do that well. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/99/how-to-sleep-like-normal-people-or-even-better/</link>
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		<title>(Computer) Pranks That Will Make Your Friends Curse You</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My friends (robotics club sweet times) pushed the pranks further to not wrap just my chair, but also ME ON IT&#8230;with a vaacum cleaner attached to my feet, how random is that uh ? I think those bastards even took pictures of that wrapped and taped (not so?) human-looking thing struggling with what seems to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/98/computer-pranks-that-will-make-your-friends-curse-you/</link>
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		<title>Prepare yourself for Singapore!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I am coming to Singapore soon, what stuff should I bring, and what can I leave home?&#8221; . I get every now and then this question from people and friends coming to Singapore and whom want to make sure they get just the necessary and do the right things before coming. So here&#8217;s your todo-list [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/97/prepare-yourself-for-singapore/</link>
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		<title>How to valorise your blog on Facebook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As more and more people are becoming real Facebook addicts (it is indeed quite addictive) you may want to take that opportunity to get people to know you blog and read your post. And please, don&#8217;t be fool enough to, like many bloggers, just assume that people have subscribed to your RSS feed. Even in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/96/how-to-valorise-your-blog-on-facebook/</link>
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		<title>Big Dog, an impressive and scary robot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is what can probably be seen as the state of the art quadripedal robot. It walks like a dog, a big one though. Its major skill ? Balance and ability to progress on almost any type of field : woods, rocks and even ICE are no major problem for this insane robot. Check this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/95/big-dog-an-impressive-and-scary-robot/</link>
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		<title>Inside the Twisted Mind of the Security Professional</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Uncle Milton Industries has been selling ant farms to children since 1956. Some years ago, I remember opening one up with a friend. There were no actual ants included in the box. Instead, there was a card that you filled in with your address, and the company would mail you some ants. My friend expressed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/94/inside-the-twisted-mind-of-the-security-professional/</link>
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		<title>24 heures pour retirer un contenu illicite, c&#8217;est la loi.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[C&#8217;est toujours bon a savoir : Si (et je ne vous le souhaite pas) un contenu illicite vous concernant est présent sur un site, l&#8217;hebergeur (et non le proprietaire du domaine) dispose d&#8217;environ 24 heures pour le retirer. En savoir plus : Condamné pour avoir tardé à retirer un contenu illicite Un hébergeur écope d&#8217;une [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/93/24-heures-pour-retirer-un-contenu-illicite-cest-la-loi/</link>
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		<title>Outils de programmation : Jolt Awards dévoile le TOP 13</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Pour la 18e année consécutive, un jury américain a décerné, le 6 mars, les Jolt Awards, qui récompensent les meilleures solutions de développement des 12 derniers mois. Voici les lauréats. &#62;&#62; La suite&#8230; ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/92/outils-de-programmation-jolt-awards-devoile-le-top-13/</link>
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		<title>The Price-Placebo Effect</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Very interesting : In brief, researchers have shown that the more you pay for something, the more you have pleasur using it, not matter if it&#8217;s wine, energy drinks, or as the US recent scandal suggests : sex. Explained with neuroscience, when you pay more, you expect more, more receptors are activated, so greater the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/91/the-price-placebo-effect/</link>
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		<title>Altran organise un grand concours sur Facebook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ La société de services informatiques invite les candidats à développer leur propre application Facebook, dans le cadre du concours « AppliChallenge ». &#62;&#62; More&#8230; ~~~~~ Commentaire de l&#8217;Electron Libre ~~~~~ Du point de vue recruteur, c&#8217;est une initiative très pertinente et dans l&#8217;air du temps. Cette nouvelle méthode de recrutement ne s&#8217;intéresse pas seulement à vos compétences [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/90/altran-organise-un-grand-concours-sur-facebook/</link>
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		<title>Le cybercrime, aussi dévastateur qu&#8217;un tir de missiles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Le directeur de la sécurité informatique de l&#8217;Otan s&#8217;est exprimé lors de l&#8217;E-Crime Congress. Selon lui, une attaque contre des infrastructures réseau peut avoir de graves conséquences. http://www.01net.com/editorial/373884/le-cybercrime-aussi-devastateur-qu-un-tir-de-missiles/]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/89/le-cybercrime-aussi-devastateur-quun-tir-de-missiles/</link>
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		<title>Top10 des requêtes bizarres</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Après avoir installé Stat Traq, un plugin de WordPress (mon outil de gestion de blog), j&#8217;ai le plaisir d&#8217;accéder aux requêtes que les gens ont tapé dans les moteurs de recherche avant d&#8217;être renvoyer vers mon blog&#8230;bah ça promet ! D&#8217;abord les inclassables : jeux devoture Certainement quelqu&#8217;un qui cherchait des jeux DE VOITURE, et [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/88/top10-des-requetes-bizarres/</link>
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		<title>Innovact, un salon à ne pas manquer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Salon Innovact &#8211; 18 &#38; 19 mars 2008 &#8211; Reims. &#8220;Unique en Europe, le forum Innovact permet aux jeunes entreprises innovantes européennes de trouver les solutions de leur développement : formation, partenariats, financement, transfert de technologies… grâce à un large éventail de services.&#8221; 12e édition mardi 18 et mercredi 19 mars 2008 au Centre des Congrès [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/87/innovact-un-salon-a-ne-pas-manquer/</link>
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		<title>Tired of not sleeping well enough ?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is a compilation of 33 &#8220;secrets&#8221; from a doctor to get a perfect sleep routine. http://www.mercola.com/article/sleep.htm]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/86/tired-of-not-sleeping-well-enough/</link>
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		<title>28 Ways to Make Money with Your Website</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are several lists with “ways to make money with a website” on the Internet, but none of them seem to be complete. That is why I (the original author) decided to create this one. If you know a method that is not listed below, just let us know and we’ll update it. http://www.dailyblogtips.com/ways-to-make-money-online-with-website/]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/85/28-ways-to-make-money-with-your-website/</link>
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		<title>Bill Gates n&#8217;est plus le plus riche du monde</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Eh oui, notre ami Billou n&#8217;est plus l&#8217;homme le plus riche du monde. Pour devenir le plus riche du monde désormais il s&#8217;agit d&#8217;être PDG (et si possible fondateur) d&#8217;un grand groupe incontournable ou investisseur pertinent à plein temps. http://www.01net.com/editorial/373493/bill-gates-n-est-plus-l-homme-le-plus-riche-du-monde/ Les remarques sont vives à son égard, en particulier au sein de la communauté française, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/84/bill-gates-nest-plus-le-plus-riche-du-monde/</link>
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		<title>Chien mou beat-box, debile, mais c&#8217;est pas grave !</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Le porte-nawak à l&#8217;état pur. http://www.beatbox.tele2.se/]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/83/chien-mou-beat-box-debile-mais-cest-pas-grave/</link>
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		<title>Les produits qui ont fait parler d&#8217;eux au Cebit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Des composants industriels aux gadgets improbables en passant par les PC « tunés », on trouve de tout à la Foire de Hanovre. Voici une sélection de produits qui ont marqué cette édition 2008. http://www.01net.com/editorial/373643/les-produits-qui-ont-fait-parler-d-eux-au-cebit/]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/82/les-produits-qui-ont-fait-parler-deux-au-cebit/</link>
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		<title>Warning : Online Web Based Desktops Are Taking Over And These 15 WebOS Are In The Running To Do So</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After having a feel that ONLINE DESKTOPS would be the desktops of the future, I am forwarding today a list of what is seen at the top online desktops of the moment. Go Web 2.0 ! http://rangit.com/operating-systems/online-web-based-desktop-os-operating-system-webos/]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/81/warning-online-web-based-desktops-are-taking-over-and-these-15-webos-are-in-the-running-to-do-so/</link>
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		<title>Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I&#8217;ve heard many war stories,&#8221; says Harvard Business School associate professor Connie Bagley, reflecting on conversations with former students who have started business ventures. To prepare current students for the HBS Business Plan Contest, Bagley gives a seminar in which she shares these war stories with the prospective entrepreneurs, in the form of a list [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/80/top-ten-legal-mistakes-made-by-entrepreneurs/</link>
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		<title>L&#8217;Owasp, une association qui prêche la sécurité Web aux entreprises</title>
		<description><![CDATA[L&#8217;Open Web Application Security Project publie son guide en français. Interview du président du bureau hexagonal.Source : http://www.01net.com/editorial/372337/l-owasp-une-association-qui-preche-la-securite-web-aux-entreprises/]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/79/lowasp-une-association-qui-preche-la-securite-web-aux-entreprises/</link>
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		<title>Tablettes de chocolat sur lit de&#8230;d&#8217;hopital !</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dans la familles des billets de blogs qui apprennent à désapprendre, en voila un qui vous économisera quelques douleurs pénibles. Je confirme maintenant l&#8217;information sur laquelle j&#8217;avais un doute depuis un moment : L&#8217;exercice classique pour les abdos (qu&#8217;on connait tous) est terriblement mauvais pour les vertèbres lombaires (bas du dos). Quel exercice ne pas [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/78/tablettes-de-chocolat-sur-lit-dedhopital/</link>
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		<title>« Certains conseillers Wengo gagnent jusqu&#8217;à 2 000 euros par mois »</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wengo, reconvertie dans le conseil en ligne, vient de lever 6 millions d&#8217;euros. Entretien avec son PDG, David Bitton.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/77/%c2%ab-certains-conseillers-wengo-gagnent-jusqua-2-000-euros-par-mois-%c2%bb/</link>
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		<title>John Cleese’s “Letter to America”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[John Cleese, illustre acteur dans la bande des Monty Python,  s&#8217;adresse à l&#8217;Amérique (ou plutôt aux Etats-Unis) dans une lettre des plus hilarante pour quiconque a eu le plaisir de côtoyer des Etats-Uniens et éventuellement des Britanniques. En vous souhaitant bon appétit, je vous invite à la savourer avec délicatesse car c&#8217;est très fin : [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/76/john-cleese%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cletter-to-america%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<title>Origines profondes de la Tecktonik</title>
		<description><![CDATA[C&#8217;est tout un mythe qui s&#8217;écroule maintenant : Tecktonik origins by jeanbamin]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/75/origines-profonde-de-la-tecktonik/</link>
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		<title>Aujourd&#8217;hui les logiciels en ligne, demain les OS en ligne !</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1230. C&#8217;est en millions d&#8217;euros une estimation du marche du logiciel en ligne EN FRANCE SEULEMENT. Dans l&#8217;absolu c&#8217;est énorme, de manière relative : c&#8217;est bien plus que l&#8217;an dernier.  L&#8217;information vient confirmer mes plus intimes convictions quand a l&#8217;avenir du logiciel : davantage de centralisation des solutions logicielles, davantage de clients légers. Ne soyez [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/74/aujourdhui-les-logiciels-en-ligne-demain-les-os-en-ligne/</link>
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		<title>Apres &#8220;Un indien dans la ville&#8221;, &#8220;Un parigo a Singapour&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Voila la liste des phrases, remarques, questions auxquelles vous aurez certainement droit si vous venez de la region Parisienne&#8230;ou si vous vous appelez Youcef Banouni. &#8220;You don&#8217;t need to dress formally, it&#8217;s an unformal meeting.&#8221; &#8220;So you had a presentation today?&#8221; Et alors celui-la il est collector : &#8220;Excuse me I am looking for the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/73/apres-un-indien-dans-la-ville-un-parigo-a-singapour/</link>
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		<title>D3o, le matériau de rêve !</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dans la série des matériaux intelligents, je viens de mettre un nom sur ce matériau aux propriétés mécaniques extraordinaires dont j&#8217;avais vaguement entendu parler. Commercialise par la société britannique du même nom , le D3o (prononcez dé-trois-au) est une pâte qui bizarrement est malléable quand on la malaxe a la main et rigide en cas [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/72/d3o-le-materiau-de-reve/</link>
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		<title>OpenID rassemble pour devenir l&#8217;identifiant unique du Web</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google, IBM, Microsoft, Verisign et Yahoo! ont rejoint cette fondation, qui développe une technologie de gestion d&#8217;identité en ligne. http://www.01net.com/editorial/371554/openid-rassemble-pour-devenir-l-identifiant-unique-du-web/]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/71/openid-rassemble-pour-devenir-lidentifiant-unique-du-web/</link>
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		<title>Melodows</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A sweet melody, 100% based on Windows 98 &#38; Windows XP sounds ! Nice job, they stole my idea]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/70/melodows/</link>
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		<title>Gutemberg Hotline</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Le Helpdesk version Gutemberg quand le livre etait un nouveau medium ca donne ca :]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/69/gutemberg-hotline/</link>
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		<title>Ne cherchez pas Chuck Norris</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tapez “Find Chuck Norris” dans Google puis clickez sur “j’ai de la chance”&#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/68/ne-cherchez-pas-chuck-norris/</link>
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		<title>Le sac a dos solaire</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On en a rêvé, ils l&#8217;ont fait : Le sac a dos solaire ! Quel globetrotter n&#8217;a pas rêvé un jour de  pouvoir recharger tout ses appareils pendant qu&#8217;il gambade, ein, franchement ?  http://www.voltaicsystems.com/ Techniquement très pratique, il faudra quand même de gros efforts sur l&#8217;esthétique avant de voir la génération tecktonik se ruer dessus [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/67/le-sac-a-dos-solaire/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vous vous souvenez dans le film Matrix, le passage avec les hommes-piles ? Cet article est en plain dedans : Comment générer de l&#8217;énergie électrique a partir d&#8217;un humain ? Voici une solution possible, qui relève plus du bricolage que de la recherche amont, mais c&#8217;est pas inintéressant : http://www.generation-nt.com/marcher-recharger-batterie-telephone-portable-mobile-actualite-68011.html C&#8217;est quand même pas pratique [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/66/66/</link>
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		<title>Création graphique autour du thème &#8220;USB&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[L&#8217;USB, c&#8217;est beau. http://www.dialog05.com/main.html#]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/65/creation-graphique-autour-du-theme-usb/</link>
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		<title>MySpace ouvre ses portes aux développeurs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Le site communautaire met en ligne une interface de développement, afin de permettre la mise au point de nouvelles applications pour ses membres. http://www.01net.com/editorial/371183/myspace-ouvre-ses-portes-aux-developpeurs/]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/64/myspace-ouvre-ses-portes-aux-developpeurs/</link>
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		<title>Les widgets futiles de Slide évalués à 500 millions de dollars</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Je viens de comprendre comment créer de la richesse a partir d&#8217;applications souvent débiles sur les réseaux communautaires. C&#8217;est pourtant très simple&#8230; La jeune pousse américaine vient de lever 50 millions de dollars, ce qui la valorise à dix fois ce montant. Ses widgets pour les sites sociaux ne sont pourtant que divertissants. http://www.01net.com/editorial/369930/les-widgets-futiles-de-slide-evalues-a-500-millions-de-dollars/]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/63/les-widgets-futiles-de-slide-evalues-a-500-millions-de-dollars/</link>
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		<title>Facebook arrive en VF</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Aujourd&#8217;hui disponible en espagnol, le site promet une version française dans les semaines à venir. Dans les deux cas, ce sont des internautes bénévoles qui ont été mis à contribution. http://www.01net.com/editorial/371426/facebook-arrive-en-vf/]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/62/facebook-arrive-en-vf/</link>
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		<title>Sachez ce que vous mangez !</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dans la série des sites qui vous veulent du bien, je vous propose un triptyque intéressant pour documenter ce que vous mangez. Ce n&#8217;est que maintenant que je réalise l&#8217;importance d&#8217;une nourriture équilibrée. Nous somme des machines très complexes, Le top #1 : Nutrition Data J&#8217;adore ce site pour son caractère exhaustif, pour un même [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/61/sachez-ce-que-vous-mangez/</link>
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		<title>Le top de l&#8217;expression faciale</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Je pense avoir trouve une perle rare : le top ou presque de ce qui se fait actuellement en termes d&#8217;animation du visage en 3D, a partir de moyens basiques, et avec un resultat tres rapide. C&#8217;est l&#8217;entreprise Image Metrics qui sous-traite pour les meilleurs boites de jeux videos et autres fournisseurs de contenus animes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/60/le-top-de-lexpression-faciale/</link>
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		<title>Wii-fit, l&#8217;accessoire ultime</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Biensur, c&#8217;est une fois qu&#8217;on le voit qu&#8217;on se demande pourquoi on y a pas pense plus tot ! http://www.journaldugeek.com/?2008/02/13/10079-wii-fit-l-accessoire-ultime]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/59/wii-fit-laccessoire-ultime/</link>
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		<title>Interview &#8211; Laurent Le Moal : « Un acheteur en ligne sur trois utilise PayPal »</title>
		<description><![CDATA[La filiale d&#8217;eBay compte conquérir les grands sites marchands et les PME/TPE. Le point avec son nouveau directeur général. http://www.01net.com/editorial/371540/laurent-le-moal-un-acheteur-en-ligne-sur-trois-utilise-paypal-/?rss ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/58/interview-laurent-le-moal-%c2%ab-un-acheteur-en-ligne-sur-trois-utilise-paypal-%c2%bb/</link>
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		<title>Graduate admissions experts on how to acquire the most effective letters of recommendation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the number of computer science and engineering students electing to go to graduate school increases, so does the competition to get into top schools. Students applying to competitive programs need to make sure all the elements of their applications are strong, including their letters of recommendation. But persuasive letters of recommendation should be easy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/55/graduate-admissions-experts-on-how-to-acquire-the-most-effective-letters-of-recommendation/</link>
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		<title>Secrets of Greatness: What it takes to be great</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Research now shows that the lack of natural talent is irrelevant to great success. The secret? Painful and demanding practice and hard work What makes Tiger Woods great? What made Berkshire Hathaway (Charts) Chairman Warren Buffett the world&#8217;s premier investor? We think we know: Each was a natural who came into the world with a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/57/secrets-of-greatness-what-it-takes-to-be-great/</link>
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		<title>Sell Yourself Successfully</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many of my friends have often solicited me for tips on how to write a good resume in English, along with a unique cover letter. Eventually, they would catch vivid interest, and together we would work on getting a good recommendation letter and prepare the interview. I take this opportunity to also drop a word on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/56/sell-yourself-successfully/</link>
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		<title>Interview exclusive de l&#8217;Electron Libre &#8211; N1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Parce que l&#8217;Électron Libre est un VIP (Very Important Particle), la rédaction a décidé de mettre en place une interview pour apporter des éléments de réponse a toutes les interrogations possibles au sein du fanclub de l&#8217;Electron Libre, a savoir bien souvent, d&#8217;autres VIP 12/02/2007 , a 17h30. Journaliste : &#8220;Alors Youcef, comment ça se [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/54/interview-exclusive-de-lelectron-libre-n1/</link>
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		<title>Sucres lents et sucres rapides n&#8217;existent pas !</title>
		<description><![CDATA[C&#8217;est sans aucun doute la plus grande legende urbaine dans le monde de la nutrition. En effet, le concept de sucres rapides et de sucres lents est une grosse erreur. En resume : Par sucres rapides on entend courremment des sucres dont la molecule, simple, est rapidement diffusee dans l&#8217;organisme. A l&#8217;inverse, par sucres lents on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/53/sucres-lents-et-sucres-rapides-nexistent-pas/</link>
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		<title>Faire de la muscu intelligemment, c&#8217;est possible.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Voila un chouette site bien documente sur la musculation. Beaucoup d&#8217;exercices sont documentes, et des conseils tres pertinents sont formules afin de bien exercer les mouvements, dans le respects des articulations et des limites de chacun.  http://muscul.az.free.fr]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/52/faire-de-la-muscu-intelligemment-cest-possible/</link>
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		<title>Le radio reveil a virements automatiques</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Programmez le pour virer 50 euros a un organisme bien debile pour toutes les 5 minutes de sommeil supplementaire&#8230;simplement genial ! REVEIL GARANTI. http://www.fredcavazza.net/2008/01/14/inutile-donc-indispensable-n%c2%b04-le-radio-reveil-avec-virement-bancaire-automatise/]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/51/le-radio-reveil-a-virements-automatiques/</link>
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		<title>Uncyclopedia, la desinformation amusante</title>
		<description><![CDATA[L&#8217;encyclopedie de la connerie et de la derision a trouve un nom, Uncyclopedia. C&#8217;est une chouette parodie de Wikipedia, je conseille, ca detend. http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Main_Page]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/50/uncyclopedia-la-desinformation-amusante/</link>
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		<title>Social Engineering : How to get valuable information for free</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is the idea. Having in the past been involved in online business, I have been in charge of the whole buying and reselling process, including advertising and customer relationship. After a while, you become more and more worried about time efficiency. You try to maximize the benefits per human worked hour. One factor to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/49/social-engineering-how-to-get-valuable-information-for-free/</link>
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		<title>Sleep deprivation leads to impaired risky decision making</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Basically, under sleep deprivation, one tends to expect reward where there may potentially be none, but they also are less reactive to loss. Actually, this article is so right, the first wrong decision I often make when I lack sleep is not to wake up. http://www.nus.edu.sg/corporate/research/gallery/research124.htm]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/48/sleep-deprivation-leads-to-impaired-risky-decision-making/</link>
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		<title>La pierre d&#8217;alun (chebba)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Toujours dans la categorie des produits naturels, traditionnels, et helas peu populaire car peu documentes, je vous presente la pierre d&#8217;alun. La pierre d&#8217;alun est un cristal naturel (sel double) transparent et au gout tres apre si on pose sa langue dessus. Elle est utilise par les anciens pour ses proprietes interessantes : desinfectantes, elle [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/47/la-pierre-dalun-chebba/</link>
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		<title>Les bienfaits du savon noir (saboune el beldi)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Etant de plus en plus curieux et interesse pas les soins et la medecine naturelle, j&#8217;ai decide de me documenter sur les produits traditionels marocains. Un minimum de rigueur scientifique veut qu&#8217;il est difficile de se contenter de &#8220;les gens disent que c&#8217;est bon pour &#8230;. que ca soigne &#8230;.&#8221;, et helas la culture marocaine [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/46/les-bienfaits-du-savon-noir-saboune-el-beldi/</link>
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		<title>Des bonus de plusieurs millions pour les meilleurs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Les bonnes années, certains patrons de salles de marché peuvent gagner 10 millions d&#8217;euros. http://www.lefigaro.fr/societes-francaises/2008/01/31/04010-20080131ARTFIG00331-des-bonus-de-plusieurs-millions-pour-les-meilleurs-.php]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/45/des-bonus-de-plusieurs-millions-pour-les-meilleurs/</link>
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		<title>Lampe sans pile : Zone Ecolo équipe Air France !</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Le concept est pas nouveau, mais il peut etre interessant de voir que comment cette version du produit a su tirer profit du meilleur des technologies relatives : LED et piles a supercondensateurs. Air France aime, Air France l&#8217;a achete ! http://quotidiendurable.com/news/lampe-sans-pile-zone-ecolo-equipe-air-france]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/44/lampe-sans-pile-zone-ecolo-equipe-air-france/</link>
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		<title>Sink positive !</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://quotidiendurable.com/news/une-idee-geniale-pour-economiser-l-eau-en-milieu-urbain]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/43/sink-positive/</link>
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		<title>Un showroom louable aux entrepreneurs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Voila une idee qu&#8217;elle est bonne, et qui va interesser nombre de talentrepreuneurs ! http://www.journaldugeek.com/?2008/01/31/9939-et-si-on-allait-a-la-cantine]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/42/un-showroom-louable-aux-entrepreneurs/</link>
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		<title>Ubuntu debarque dans les gendarmeries</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://www.journaldugeek.com/?2008/01/31/9940-ubuntu-flique]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/41/ubuntu-debarque-dans-les-gendarmeries/</link>
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		<title>Un bon clavier !</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Je le dis et je le repete : les claviers sotn amenes a disparaitre tres vite, en particuliers ceux-ci www.journaldugeek.com/?2008/02/01/9952-c-est-bon-un-clavier]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/40/un-bon-clavier/</link>
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		<title>A la recherche du courtier de la Société Générale&#8230; sur Facebook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://www.01net.com/editorial/370531/a-la-recherche-du-courtier-de-la-societe-generale&#8230;-sur-facebook/]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/39/a-la-recherche-du-courtier-de-la-societe-generale-sur-facebook/</link>
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		<title>Et le meilleur film impossible à faire avec un mobile est&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Il fallait le faire : un festival du film tourne avec son telephone portable haha ! http://feediz.01net.com/item-272013-582505993.html]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/38/et-le-meilleur-film-impossible-a-faire-avec-un-mobile-est/</link>
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		<title>Amazon veut mettre la main sur le Web qui n&#8217;existe pas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pas mal, il fallait y penser. http://www.01net.com/editorial/370901/amazon-veut-mettre-la-main-sur-le-web-qui-n-existe-pas/?rss]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/37/amazon-veut-mettre-la-main-sur-le-web-qui-nexiste-pas/</link>
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		<title>Gros plan sur Microsoft, Yahoo! et Google</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://feediz.01net.com/item-282063-512682974.html]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/36/gros-plan-sur-microsoft-yahoo-et-google/</link>
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		<title>6,2 millions d&#8217;abonnés pour le réseau social Copains d&#8217;avant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[6,2 millions d&#8217;abonnés pour le réseau social Copains d&#8217;avant]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/35/62-millions-dabonnes-pour-le-reseau-social-copains-davant/</link>
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		<title>YouTube UK rémunère les auteurs de vidéos populaires</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://www.generation-nt.com/youtube-royaume-uni-partner-programme-remuneration-revenus-publicite-video-actualite-67578.html]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/34/youtube-uk-remunere-les-auteurs-de-videos-populaires/</link>
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		<title>Google prend pied sur le marché en vogue des &#8220;sites de socialisation&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Projet OpenSocial, est ce que ca vraiment marcher ? Mhhh..je suis assez perplexe. http://www.lemonde.fr/technologies/article/2007/11/02/google-prend-pied-sur-le-marche-en-vogue-des-sites-de-socialisation_973758_651865.html#ens_id=1006226]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/33/google-prend-pied-sur-le-marche-en-vogue-des-sites-de-socialisation/</link>
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		<title>Des souvenirs oubliés peuvent renaître sous l&#8217;effet de stimulations électriques du cerveau</title>
		<description><![CDATA[En effet, j&#8217;ai fait passer du 220V a travers mes tempes, ca m&#8217;a rapelle mon dernier comma d&#8217;il y a 10 ans Plus serieusement : http://www.lemonde.fr/sciences-et-environnement/article/2008/01/30/des-souvenirs-oublies-peuvent-renaitre-sous-l-effet-de-stimulations-electriques-du-cerveau_1005322_3244.html?xtor=RSS-3244]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/32/des-souvenirs-oublies-peuvent-renaitre-sous-leffet-de-stimulations-electriques-du-cerveau/</link>
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		<title>La pollution de l&#8217;air intérieur, &#8220;enjeu sanitaire majeur&#8221; et négligé</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Utilisateurs d&#8217;encens, de bougies et de produits menagers, et vous autres&#8230;..fumeurs/fumeuses : AEREZ VOTRE INTERIEUR ! http://www.lemonde.fr/sciences-et-environnement/article/2008/01/31/la-pollution-de-l-air-interieur-enjeu-sanitaire-majeur-et-neglige_1005600_3244.html?xtor=RSS-3244]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/31/la-pollution-de-lair-interieur-enjeu-sanitaire-majeur-et-neglige/</link>
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		<title>Microsoft présente une offre de rachat de Yahoo! pour 44,6 milliards de dollars</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft, le numéro un mondial des logiciels, a présenté vendredi, une offre de rachat de Yahoo! pour 44,6 milliards de dollars (30 milliards d&#8217;euros). http://www.lemonde.fr/technologies/article/2008/02/01/microsoft-presente-une-offre-de-rachat-de-yahoo-pour-44-6-milliards-de-dollars_1006223_651865.html?xtor=RSS-3208]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/30/microsoft-presente-une-offre-de-rachat-de-yahoo-pour-446-milliards-de-dollars/</link>
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		<title>Quiz Geographie &#8211; Asie Level 2 : Les capitales</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Si vous avez pas fait le level 1 c&#8217;est pas grave puisque les pays (localiser les pays) sont clairements indiques http://www.ilike2learn.com/ilike2learn/asiacapitals.html J&#8217;attends vos resultats biensur]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/29/quiz-geographie-asie-level-2-les-capitales/</link>
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		<title>Films en streaming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://joox.net  Je me demande comment fait ce site pour pas avoir ete interdit. En attendant ca fait beaucoup d&#8217;heureux !]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/28/films-en-streaming/</link>
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		<title>Challenge Projets d&#8217;Entreprendre, quelques conseils</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Article dernièrement mis à jour le 30/03/2007, à 8h11 (heure française). Monter un Business Plan (BP) solide, en une semaine, ça relève en effet du Challenge. Comme toujours, c&#8217;est systématiquement à la fin qu&#8217;on se rend compte de ce qu&#8217;on aurait du faire. Pour une fois, grâce à l&#8217;article du free electron two thousand and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/25/challenge-projets-dentreprendre-quelques-conseils/</link>
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		<title>Créole Mauricien, mode d&#8217;emploi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Après avoir rencontré quelques mauriciens (culture ge : Maurice) à Singapour, j&#8217;ai eu l&#8217;occasion  d&#8217;apprendre quelques mots de Créole Mauricien. Je voulais partager ça parce que c&#8217;est vraiment marrant en fait quand on essaye de comprendre l&#8217;origine des expressions. Exemples : éna lwin enkore pu allé ? Comprenez : y en a loin encore pour [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/26/creole-mauricien-mode-demploi/</link>
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		<title>Accelerating Innovation: People, Processes, &amp; Technology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Jack Shaw is a great Keynote speaker. He did a very engaging presentation punctuated with facts and examples filled with daring concepts to provoke, inspire and mobilize the audience. His speech was aligned with the company&#8217;s strategy. He sent a clear message about the power of technology to leverage competitiveness, bringing innovation and growth to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/24/accelerating-innovation-people-processes-technology/</link>
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		<title>Explorez le potentiel des vos idées</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;J&#8217;ai une nouvelle idée&#8230; J&#8217;ai pas encore trop creusé, mais elle me plaît beaucoup et m&#8217;a l&#8217;air innovante.&#8221; Si vous vous dites cela souvent, cet article est fait pour vous. Il donne quelques pistes aux esprits en proie d&#8217;innovation, quelques conseils basés sur une expérience qui bien qu&#8217;encore très courte, peut quand même servir. Toute [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/23/explorez-le-potentiel-des-vos-idees/</link>
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		<title>Clauses de confidentialite</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Vous etes sur le point de devoiler une superbe (ou pas) idee de business ou l&#8217;invention la plus tip-top du siecle. Comme tout createur, vous avez moyennement envie que des petits malins vous piquent votre idee et la commercialise, et vous avez bien raison. C&#8217;est pas de la parano, les cas sont nombreux, pour ne [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/22/clauses-de-confidentialite/</link>
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		<title>Russel Peters would have a heck of a success in Singapore</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Russel Peters is that &#8220;Canindian&#8221; comedian whom excels at kindly mocking Indians and Chinese people. No matter whether they are from Hong-Kong or emigrated to Canada, it is ALWAYS tremendously hilarious especially if you have a certain experience with these communities. I&#8217;ve know him for long, but I just realized how much success he would [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/21/russel-peters-would-have-a-heck-of-a-success-in-singapore/</link>
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		<title>Quiz Géographie &#8212; Connaissez vous l&#8217;Asie ?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://www.ilike2learn.com/ilike2learn/asia3.html Dîtes moi quel score vous obtenez du premier coup !]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/20/quiz-geographie-connaissez-vous-lasie/</link>
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		<title>Tension in the elevator ? GONE !</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Like me you certainly have noticed that the atmosphere in an elevator, for some reason, is TENSED, no matter in what culture&#8230;Thas is human, indeed, but WEIRD. SO, here is a non-comprehensive list to kill the routine. Any suggestion welcome ! Have fun. If you start getting in real trouble, just apologize, and say it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/19/tension-in-the-elevator-gone/</link>
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		<title>Pour rigoler un peu dans le métro</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Source : Groupe Facebook &#8220;Pour rigoler un peu dans le métro&#8221; &#160; 1. Lorsque les portes se referment, hurlez de toutes vos forces comme si vous aviez coincé votre bras dans la porte, puis quand tout le monde se retourne pour voir si vous allez bien, dites : &#8220;nan, je déconne !&#8221; puis asseyez vous [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/18/pour-rigoler-un-peu-dans-le-metro/</link>
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		<title>My NON-MATERIAL Wish Board</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is the list of what  I intend to accomplish or be in my life: TRA-VEL. Explore the whole world by spending a significant amount fo time totally immersed in local people&#8217;s lives and environnement so as to experience new ways of living an understand local values, objectives, traditions, politics, ethics and way of perceiving life [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/17/my-non-material-wish-board/</link>
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		<title>My MATERIAL Wish Board</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the list of the MATERIAL stuff I would like to own, eventually trought a gift from people I will appreciate a lot . Note that some stuff may not exist. The latest Audi R8, and the driving licence that comes with for an extra euro A, lightweight, Multitouch Tablet PC, with unlimited high-speed internet, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/16/my-wish-board/</link>
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		<title>Les combinaisons de touches qui sauvent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ça s&#8217;apelle les Magic SysRq keys. Seul souci, il faut que le noyau Linux ait ete compile avec&#8230;ce qui n&#8217;est pas toujours le cas. http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/15/les-combinaisons-de-touches-qui-sauvent/</link>
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		<title>Photo Stitching</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Le stitching est l&#8217;art de composer un panorama a partir de plusieurs cliches pris en pivotant sur soi. Voici un superbe logiciel que m&#8217;a montre Benoit Mortgat, et avec lequel on a obtenu d&#8217;excellents resultats : http://hugin.sourceforge.net/]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/14/photo-stitching/</link>
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		<title>Mashable, social networking news</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Un site excellent, qui informe des nouveautes en terme de reseaux sociaux sur le net (du type Facebook, MySpace et autres) http://mashable.com/]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/13/mashable-social-networking-news/</link>
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		<title>NUS &#8211; Premieres impressions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Voila quelques jours que je suis a la National University of Singapore. NUS, un campus de thai En termes de superfiecie, c&#8217;est un campus relativement grand (150 hectares) par rapport aux grandes ecoles francaises comme Telecom INT, mais assez comparable a une universite de bonne taille, comme l&#8217;Universite de Paris-Sud XI. Mais comme l&#8217;architecture est tres [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/12/nus-premieres-impressions/</link>
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		<title>Salsa In Singapore: A Selection Of The Best Spots</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Where to go dance Salsa in Singapore? There are some I&#8217;ve tried,  and some I&#8217;ve just reviewed, enjoy reading, and see you on the dancefloor maybe. You may also want to join the Facebook group &#8220;Where to Salsa in Singapore&#8220;, which is unrelated to this blog. First of all, everybody not into Salsa will point [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/11/salsa-singapore/</link>
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		<title>Premieres photos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Voici les premieres photos d&#8217;une journee de dingue a Singapour : Singapore, Day2 &#8211; Part 1/2 : http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=14302&#38;l=e004c&#38;id=517467949 Singapore, Day2 &#8211; Part 2/2 : http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=14305&#38;l=1eaca&#38;id=517467949]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/10/premieres-photos/</link>
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		<title>Singapour &#8211; Premieres impressions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(les accents ne manquent pas a Singapour, sauf sur les claviers, je m&#8217;en excuse par avance) Je suis arrive a Singapour le 11 Janvier, vers 1h du matin, entier et sur deux pattes, c&#8217;est un bon debut. Le vol depuis Paris est assez long en fait : Compter 7 heures pour Paris-Dubai, et idem pour [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/9/singapour-premieres-impressions/</link>
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		<title>USB Cells</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love this contraption, incredibly simple idea, and yet quite a clever one : http://www.usbcell.com/]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/8/usb-cells/</link>
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		<title>INPI : Consultations Gratuites</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Si vous avez imaginé un produit, une méthode ou un procédé, et que vous vous interrogez sur sa brevetabilité, sachez que l&#8217;INPI (Institut National de la Propriété Industrielle) propose des consultations gratuites. Voilà texto la réponse d&#8217;une aimable personne de l&#8217;INPI à ma question sur le sujet. &#8212;-  Le personnel de l&#8217;INPI est à votre disposition [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.youcefbanouni.com/6/inpi-consultations-gratuites/</link>
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