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Hello ! My name is Chris Azoeuf or Christian Azoeuf.

I'm newbie at Wikipedia so bear with my small experience and my lack of correct procedures.
I started contributions to the Wikipedia with some articles about Punk rock in Belgium in the late 70's, as it was a hell of a (good) time for me.

But, as I'm interested in so many things, I could bring a little something in some other domains in this wikistuff...

Although I'm a native French-speaking person, I prefer to use English in this Internet environment just because English is much more commonly spoken/read/written and I'm quite comfortable with it.

Cheers
Chris 14:57, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

I have not edited much lately due to lack of time, so the below info may not be accurate anymore... Cheers
Chris 22:57, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

Short CV

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Born in 1959 in Namur, capital of Wallonia, Belgium.
I'm been living in Brussels since 1988.

I've done lots of things in my life. After studying photography, I worked in a factory, in TV and radio stations, in sound recording studios, in sound for theater shows and rock concerts, in a youth hostel, as a bartender, as express courier, in the import/export business, in a 3*** hotel, in a flathotel, in the Internet industry and back to the flathotel/aparthotel industry.

In the middle of all this, in 1987-1988, I traveled for a year throughout Canada and the US and it was very intense! I have been traveling a lot in the US before and after that and I have a real passion for the States in many regards. Don't misread me: my USA is the other half that voted against the Bush administration...

I started to create websites in 1995 when the Internet was still young in Belgium. In 1999 I made Web development and Web design my main job. Since then, I created dozens of websites, most of them are built dynamic and are fed from databases (MS SQL Server and MS Access), along with the help of my favorite scripting language since 1998 which is been Macromedia ColdFusion which is a great language for fast advanced coding and is so flexible.

Music

I'm very eclectic in my musical tastes. I first hit the rock'n'roll craze when I was 11 years old with Eloise from Barry Ryan. Then followed chronologically (just quoting a few): The Beatles with the White Album, the Glam rock wave, hard rock (Alice Cooper, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, etc.), Progressive rock, Woodstock, flower power, country music, protest song, Folk-rock, country, Bluegrass, Free jazz, jazz rock/Jazz fusion, reggae, punk rock, ska, Power pop, rockabilly, Salsa, Brazilian jazz, Latin jazz, etc.

My favorite of all and forever: The Ramones!

I can't stand rap music, Disco neither Blues.

I formed my first punk rock band in 1977 named The Razors (lead vocals). Then followed in 1979 Acné Juvénile (lead vocals and rhythm guitar), then The Charts (lead vocals and rhythm guitar), then Index (backup vocals and rhythm guitar) then a last band for which I don't recall the name (...) (lead vocals and bass guitar). I stopped making music around 1983-84 and now, I can't hardly play a few basic chords on my accoustic guitar... and, just don't mention singing...

My favorites places and cities

My thoughts about Wikipedia

Great idea and great tool. Nice way to organize and manage the infos. Though not very user-friendly and the learning curve quite long (too many infos to read in the Help sections, takes too long). I still have to understand how to deal with the Talk stuff, the copyrights params and many other ways to format. I find the server very slow and editing the wikipedia can take a lot of time.
Chris 11:18, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
I'll look for a wiki for ColdFusion though I could set up MediaWiki on my web server as a php app side by side with my CF server. But as I'm better with CF than with PHP and I always improve the code to suit my needs, I'd prefer a full CF app.
Chris 11:18, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
I'm having a hell of a time (loosing some actually) as it appears that my user profile is not recognized in the fr.wikipedia. It seems that I'd need to create a second ID to sign my posts over there... No way. There must be a way. I need to find out otherwise I'll add this to my Wikipedia NotMuchUserFriendly list... :-(
Chris 17:26, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
I'm wondering how this platform (Wikipedia) is seen by the big players selling encyclopedia books and other supports. I think they should not be very comfortable right now...
Chris 17:26, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
We can get addicted by this wikipedia. I'm surprised by the time I get involved in this, due to the slow server for a large part. I read here and there that many editors edit for 20 hours and so per week. I can see now...
Chris 17:35, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
came back here to update my picture. Hardly found this time the link to add (without removing the old) my new picture. If I'd do something like this for my clients (i.e. if I don't make this process easy"), I'd get fired... I cannot flame Wikipedia as it's a non-profit (really?) project, but I know they're a lot of competent people working there but it doesn't reflect any better usability... so far. A pity.

--Chris (talk) 15:35, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Contact

wikipedia@bubblecom.net

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-Hello ! My name is Chris(tian) Azoeuf.
+Hello ! My name is Chris Azoeuf or Christian Azoeuf.
-I'm [[newbie]] at Wikipedia so bear with my small experience and my lack of correct procedures.<br/>I started contributions to the Wikipedia with some articles about [[Punk rock in Belgium|Punk rock in Belgium in the late 70's]], as it was a hell of a period for me.
+I'm [[newbie]] at Wikipedia so bear with my small experience and my lack of correct procedures.<br/>I started contributions to the Wikipedia with some articles about [[Punk rock in Belgium|Punk rock in Belgium in the late 70's]], as it was a hell of a (good) time for me.
 But, as I'm interested in so many things, I could bring a little something in some other domains in this wikistuff...
-Althought I'm a native French-speaking person, I prefer to use English in this Internet environment just because English is much more commonly spoken/read/written and I'm quite comfortable with it.
+Although I'm a native French-speaking person, I prefer to use English in this Internet environment just because English is much more commonly spoken/read/written and I'm quite comfortable with it.
 Cheers<br/>
 [[User:Chris Azoeuf|Chris]] 14:57, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
+I have not edited much lately due to lack of time, so the below info may not be accurate anymore...
+Cheers<br/>
+[[User:Chris Azoeuf|Chris]] 22:57, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
 == Short CV ==
 {{Babel|fr-N|en-4}}
 Born in [[1959]] in [[Namur (city)|Namur]], capital of [[Wallonia]], [[Belgium]].<br/>
-I'm been living in [[Brussels]] for quite some time now.
+I'm been living in [[Brussels]] since 1988.
-I've done lots of things in my life. After studying photography, I worked in a factory, in [[Television station|TV]] and [[radio stations]], in [[Recording studio|sound recording studios]], in sound for [[theater|theater shows]] and [[rock concert|rock concerts]], in a [[Hostel|youth hostel]], as a [[bartender]], as [[Express mail|express courier]], in the [[import]]/[[export]] business, in a 3*** [[hotel]], in a [[flathotel]] and finally, in the [[Internet]] industry.
+I've done lots of things in my life. After studying photography, I worked in a factory, in [[Television station|TV]] and [[radio stations]], in [[Recording studio|sound recording studios]], in sound for [[theater|theater shows]] and [[rock concert|rock concerts]], in a [[Hostel|youth hostel]], as a [[bartender]], as [[Express mail|express courier]], in the [[import]]/[[export]] business, in a 3*** [[hotel]], in a [[flathotel]], in the [[Internet]] industry and back to the flathotel/aparthotel industry.
 In the middle of all this, in [[1987]]-[[1988]], I traveled for a year throughout [[Canada]] and the [[USA|US]] and it was very intense! I have been traveling a lot in the US before and after that and I have a real passion for the States in many regards. Don't misread me: ''my'' USA is [[U.S. presidential election, 2004|the other half that voted ''against'']] the [[Bush administration]]...
+I started to create [[Website|websites]] in [[1995]] when the [[Internet]] was still young in Belgium.
-I started to create [[Website|websites]] in [[1995]] when the [[Internet]] was still young in Belgium. In [[1999]] I made [[Web development]] and [[Web design]] my main job. Since then, I created dozens of websites, most of them are built dynamic and are fed from [[databases]] ([[MS SQL Server]] and [[MS Access]]). My favorite [[scripting language]] since [[1998]] has been [[Macromedia]] [[ColdFusion]] which is a great language for fast advanced coding and is so flexible. I just hope that the [[merger]] with [[Adobe Systems|Adobe]] will not have bad effects on ColdFusion.
+In [[1999]] I made [[Web development]] and [[Web design]] my main job. Since then, I created dozens of websites, most of them are built dynamic and are fed from [[databases]] ([[MS SQL Server]] and [[MS Access]]), along with the help of my favorite [[scripting language]] since [[1998]] which is been [[Macromedia]] [[ColdFusion]] which is a great language for fast advanced coding and is so flexible.
 == Music ==
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 I can't stand [[rap music]], [[Disco]] neither [[Blues]].
-I formed my first [[punk rock]] band in 1977 named ''[[The Razors]]'' (lead vocals). Then followed in 1979 ''Acné Juvénile'' (lead vocals and rythm guitar), then ''The Charts'' (lead vocals and rythm guitar), then ''Index'' (backup vocals and rythm guitar) then a last band for which I don't recall the name (...) (lead vocals and bass guitar). I stopped making music around 1983-84 and now, I can't hardly play a few basic chords on my accoustic guitar... and, just don't mention singing...
+I formed my first [[punk rock]] band in 1977 named ''[[The Razors]]'' (lead vocals). Then followed in 1979 ''Acné Juvénile'' (lead vocals and rhythm guitar), then ''The Charts'' (lead vocals and rhythm guitar), then ''Index'' (backup vocals and rhythm guitar) then a last band for which I don't recall the name (...) (lead vocals and bass guitar). I stopped making music around 1983-84 and now, I can't hardly play a few basic chords on my accoustic guitar... and, just don't mention singing...
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 == My thoughts about Wikipedia ==
 * Great idea and great tool. Nice way to organize and manage the infos. Though not very user-friendly and the learning curve quite long (too many infos to read in the Help sections, takes too long). I still have to understand how to deal with the Talk stuff, the copyrights params and many other ways to format. I find the server very slow and editing the wikipedia can take a lot of time.<br/>[[User:Chris Azoeuf|Chris]] 11:18, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
-* I'll look for a wiki for ColdFusion though I could set up MediaWiki on my webserver as a php app side by side with my CF server. But as I'm better with CF than with PHP and I always improve the code to suit my needs, I'd prefer a full CF app.<br/>[[User:Chris Azoeuf|Chris]] 11:18, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
+* I'll look for a wiki for ColdFusion though I could set up MediaWiki on my web server as a php app side by side with my CF server. But as I'm better with CF than with PHP and I always improve the code to suit my needs, I'd prefer a full CF app.<br/>[[User:Chris Azoeuf|Chris]] 11:18, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm having a hell of a time (loosing some actually) as it appears that my user profile is not recognized in the fr.wikipedia. It seems that I'd need to create a second ID to sign my posts over there... No way. There must be a way. I need to find out otherwise I'll add this to my Wikipedia NotMuchUserFriendly list... :-(<br/>[[User:Chris Azoeuf|Chris]] 17:26, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
-* I'm wondering how this phenomenum (Wikipedia) is seen by the big players selling encyclopedia books and other supports. I think they should not be very comfortable right now...<br/>[[User:Chris Azoeuf|Chris]] 17:26, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
+* I'm wondering how this platform (Wikipedia) is seen by the big players selling encyclopedia books and other supports. I think they should not be very comfortable right now...<br/>[[User:Chris Azoeuf|Chris]] 17:26, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
 * We can get addicted by this wikipedia. I'm surprised by the time I get involved in this, due to the slow server for a large part. I read here and there that many editors edit for 20 hours and so per week. I can see now...<br/>[[User:Chris Azoeuf|Chris]] 17:35, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
+* came back here to update my picture. Hardly found this time the link to add (without removing the old) my new picture. If I'd do something like this for my clients (i.e. if I don't make this process easy"), I'd get fired... I cannot flame Wikipedia as it's a non-profit (really?) project, but I know they're a lot of competent people working there but it doesn't reflect any better usability... so far. A pity.
+--[[User:Chris Azoeuf|Chris]] ([[User talk:Chris Azoeuf|talk]]) 15:35, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
-== External links ==
-* [http://www.bubblecom.net BubbleCom]: my small web services company's website.
-* [http://www.rhd.be Robin Hood Development] for which I'm also under contract for the web developments.
-* [http://www.frites.be Frites.be]: co-founded with Hugues Henry in 1997, a website for a different and humorous insight's [[Belgium]] and somehow about the [[Belgian Fries]]. Currently under rebuilding but takes some time...
 == Contact ==