For several reasons, I'm in the process of stopping YABON in his current form.

First, I've 3 new web projects that I want to build and YABON, v3, will not fit in any of them. Unfortunatly time is not on my side.

Next, according to me, YABON has a main drawback. YABON is too generic, too common and not strong typed enough. When you arrive here, you never know what you'll find. This could be fun, but I feel I have not succeeded here. The low level of supporters and usual daily readers confort my mind. Even most of my friends do not read YABON because it has nothing personal (well almost nothing if you remember the pictures of Alice's birth). I'll consider this drawback when building my next projects.

Finally, I have less and less fun going on the web because of YABON's required discipline of finding interesting stuff to post all the time. This is part of the blogging audiance secret: bringing fresh stuff on a regular basis (along with value added and strong-typed contents). At the beginning, blogging was an easy game to play 'cause almost everything was a new thing. Fresh stuff was easy to find. Now this excitement is gone (little by little) and finding new "publishable" material is much more harder. I do not want to become some kind of slave of my blog due to the fact that feeding YABON is a time consuming activity.

YABON will come back as a simple collection of links and quotes (the famous quote of the day). Also you may find on this page some sporadic personal news addressed to my family and friends as well as information on my other online projects. Thank you for your reading. Happy surfing.
Grégoire.
# 21.01.2004.

 Today, President Bush gives his annual address. As the election battle begins, how does his first term add up? George W Bush and ->the real state of the Union.
# 20.01.2004.

 ->Bush knew [via ->onepointzero.com].
# 07.01.2004.

 Leading companies and third-party analysts confirm it: Windows has a lower cost of ownership and outperforms Linux. Microsoft Corp. on Monday launched a new advertising campaign, referred to as ->"Get the Facts," which is designed to give customers information about the advantages of using its Windows operating system versus Linux, its open-source competitor. This latest move is yet another way the Redmond, Wash. software firm is trying to counter the effects of the Linux operating system, and is in keeping with the strategy embraced by Martin Taylor, who ->took over the role of Microsoft open-source and Linux strategist last July. Damned, they pay a guy to have linux counter strategies and that's all he have found...
# 06.01.2004.

 Norwegian programmer Jon Lech Johansen, who broke the DVD encryption scheme, has opened iTunes locked music a tad further, by allowing people to play songs they've purchased on iTunes Music Store on their GNU/Linux computers. We're about to find out what Apple really thinks about Fair Use, Johansen told The Register via email.
# 06.01.2004.

 Every pundit, blogger, correspondent, presidential candidate, reporter, scam artist, and all of their mothers, have something to say about Saddam. Here's our roundup of what they're spouting: from capture to trial to conspiracy theories, it's all in Saddamania!!! (well, a lot of it anyway).
# 30.12.2003.

 Okay, it's officially the last minute and you forgot to get your sister's roommate a gift. You're going to their holiday party tonight and you can't show up empty handed. What do you do? Fear not gentle bloggers, you'll have a great gift. ->The gift of blog. (it is powered by blogger, but could be easely adapted to your favorite web content manager).
# 24.12.2003.