I recently had a discussion with a few people on whether one should filter the net or not for his kids. Here are a few thoughts I consider worth sharing.

I've got 3 kids (9, 13, 15), each one has his own laptop since they are able to read (and even before for the last one).

I took, since the very beginning the stance of educating my kids on what can be found and what can happen on the net.  I have also told them to tell my wife or me when they feel offended. I have also showed them how to block unsolicited contact on chats. In fact, I decided to apply to them the same principles that I got throughout my education^[1] . So far, only once was I asked by my youngest one how can she avoid seeing some sites when she does a search, and showed her how to use a filtered version of Google (that was 3 month ago).

Even though I have warned her about DRM multiple times, my wife loves purchasing her music on iTunes and did so quite extensively for at least the past two years.  A week ago she calls me for help, as one her favorite's artist music cannot be read on her iTunes or iPod anymore.  Each times she tries, it ask for her iTunes music account password, seems to say that it validates it and then ask for her password again!

First blog entry in english here, sorry for the french readers, but if you don't speak english, not much point to read this anyway….

It looks likes I'll be spending most of my summer on the US west coast this year, as I have just had confirmation that I'll give about the same conference on virtualization choices offered on Ubuntu in two shows. First one is Ubuntu Live on July 21st in Portland, the second one is Linux World in San Francisco on Aug 4–7th. 

[Update Jun 1] Ubuntu Live has been merged with OSCON and my conference has been moved a few days later…

If you have a good idea on what I should be doing in between the two, feel free to send it my way, as I will certainly use the week between OSCON and Linux World as vacation time.

Oh, I forgot to thank the AFNOR and ISO for its stupid final decision regarding Microsoft's OOXML published today: