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Charlot: 2001-2011

Patchou — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 15:51:02 +0000

Mon plus vieux compagnon de route, Charlot, est décédé ce 13 Juillet 2011, aux environs de 19H.

Merci pour tout mon chat.

Flashback: Final Fantasy Concert in 2004

Patchou — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 18:36:13 +0000

Spring is here! Among other things, this means it’s time to do some house cleaning and in my case, I decided it was time to re-organize my documents, photos, backups and the remaining 297,106 files of D:\ into something more useful. While doing just that, I stumbled upon an article I wrote many years ago for ffworld.com, a french web site dedicated to Final Fantasy games. Now that I have this personal blog site, I think I have a nice opportunity to post the article again. The text is about the first official Final Fantasy concert ever presented outside of Japan, during the E3 of 2004. It’s all written in french but it has some pictures ;).

Read “Concert de Final Fantasy à Los Angeles, 2004″ (french).

All good things…

Patchou — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 21:48:52 +0000

My days with Messenger Plus! are now officially over. The Messenger Plus! Story article has been updated to close this chapter of my professional life.

Nothing lasts for ever, I’m glad I was there to witness Messenger Plus! reach so many people at its peak. The future of the software is now completely out of my control, I wish the new owners good luck with everything. My little Amélie is growing up, she’s two month old now and she needs all the time I can give her. For that reason, I’ll only be concentrating on small-scale projects this year (like Eorzea’s Guide). As usual, I have a lot of ideas for new projects/software and I hope I’ll have an opportunity to share some of them with you. Even if our meetings won’t be called “Messenger Plus! Meetings” anymore, there’s no reason why we couldn’t organize something like that this year, to share our memories and have some good old geek fun :-).

Whatever happens, don’t hesitate to contact me again via email or one of the many usual social networks. A good friend of mine from the community recently told me “don’t be a stranger” : I certainly have no intention to be one, all the opposite :-).

Life in the office

Patchou — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 22:46:18 +0000

Now that the office of Kimahri Software is up and running in Montreal, I can show you a graphical representation of what life is about to be in there (courtesey of my friend wtbw) :

Hello kitty

Patchou — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 19:10:16 +0000

Sometimes in life, you have to choose what you want to do. I’m not posting much these days as I need to focus on Final Fantasy XIII (little inside joke here). This activity requires a lot of concentration; after all, gaming is a serious business. While I’m hard at work, here is a picture of my cat Charlot. Why this picture? simply because I just saw it in a slideshow and I loved it :-).

I just got a PS3

Patchou — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 00:08:48 +0000

Final Fantasy XIII is almost out, it was time for me to get a PlayStation 3. Yes, I know it will be out on Xbox too but no, I won’t take the chance of getting a degraded experience. Everything is now plugged in, with my original PS2 cables (kudos to Sony for sticking to their own standards), and it’s ready to rock&roll.

I have to admit the system is very well made. The hardware is sleek and the user interface is very extensive. I think I still prefer the organisation of the new Xbox interface (looks more “entertaining”) but still, the PlayStation 3 has lots of options and can do a lot of stuff. I spent half an hour in their virtual world “Hom” and except for the never ending “downloading” and “loading” breaks, the idea is pretty cool. Now, all I need for some serious time wasting is the new FF. In the meantime, I’ll just have to finish KH Chain of Memories :-).

Avatar Night

Patchou — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 08:12:58 +0000

My girlfriend and I went to see Avatar for a second time at the cinema. We reserved seats for the IMAX 3D this time and it was worth every penny. As you probably have heard already, Avatar is definitively worth the price of its ticket. The world that was created for this movie is amazing, the story is simple yet very well told, and you can’t help but trace some parallels with the world we live in.

Highly recommended for anybody interested in sci-fi (and mean bad guys who don’t need oxygen).

The Messenger Plus! Story

Patchou — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 06:45:32 +0000

One of the reasons why I wanted to start this blog in the first place was to write about my past projects. Among these projects, one in particular stands out: Messenger Plus!. Most of the people who now know me online found my name through this software and since its creation in 2001, so many things happened… I think it was worth spending some time reflecting on this and writing about the experience.

The Projects section of this site now includes the finalised essay I wrote about my experience with the software and its community of people. If you’re interested or have some time to kill, you can now go ahead and read it.

Star Wars: In Concert

Patchou — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:23:57 +0000

Tonight, I’ll have the pleasure to go see the geeky concert of the year in Montreal: Star Wars at the Bell Centre. It is supposed to be a show with live musicians playing the best music taken from the 6 movies, with giant screens and lighting effects. John Williams himself worked on this project along with Lucasfilm. The show is still touring in North America so if you’re a fan of Star Wars, you should check out their future dates.

It’s nice to see that the Final Fantasy concerts organised in Los Angeles by Square Enix a couple of years ago paved the way to more musical shows of this kind. Let’s hope this trend will continue .

My new web site is ready!

Patchou — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:55:11 +0000

Thanks to WordPress, my new web site has been set-up in no time. The old patchou.com is no more, I am now working on a brand new blog/home page for myself. Work in progress, to be continued…