Nice to see good work…
Who has time to post anymore?
Saw this video, thought is worth sharing:
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Every now and then TechCrunch surprises, in this instance with an informative video. It’s an informal interview with Robert Cailliau which takes place during a brea at The Next Web conference in Amsterdam.
It’s got a bit of everything, factual history, reminiscing, opinion (i.e., iPad, IE, web standards, etc.).
Across the board it’s an excellent piece. And it turned me on to a new bit of kit from RunRev, some clever geeks in Edinburgh.
Watch this video:
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Hackers and lovers of hackers, this one’s for you. The beauty of a hack it’s not so new. BUT it is when it enables the bazillions of twitterers without forcing them to code. But then tags are not new so maybe it’s all a load of BS and will disappear tomorrow in a puff.
Over at GigiOm, Liz Gaines has a piece for noobs re how the hashtag became a component of the twitter vernacular after having grown up in the world of IRC.
According to Twitter, 11 percent of tweets now contain hashtags. This is on a platform that sees more than 50 million tweets per day.
Chris Messina (@factoryjoe) called them “channel tags” (as in IRC channel) in the beginning, however the name hashtag became more popular.
Just so you know, a hashtag looks like this: #hashtag
By putting a hash sign in the front of one of the words in your tweet you let others know the category. There can be more than one category. And there is no official dictionary of hastags, so feel free to make up your own.
When someone searches on a term (i.e., antisense) if you tweeted something like “Just read #antisense #mRNAi is major, big pharma #genetics #breakthroughs coming” they more easily find your tweet thanks to you hashtag emphasis.
Moral of the story: Simplicity Rules (kinda like pizza, eh?)
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In case you’re interested, I’ve been making pies. Pizza. Key Lime. That’s what’s taken the place of blogging. Heh.
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This could be interesting. I wonder what they sound like IRL.
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Happy New Year to all. Like you, I’m trying to stay warm through this cold snap and trying hard to get back to a balanced schedule of working out and working. Not so easy after weeks of homemade goodies and cheer.
BTW, Santa if you’re still in the vicinity I just saw a demo video of a new toy I would have put on on my list for being a good boy all year. So please Santa, could you swing by with one of these, please please please, and instruct Parrot to install hi-def cams instead of the standard-issue ones.
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It there anything better than maps? Whether you’re looking for something, need to know the state of something or need to know where you are relative to something you choose some sort of map. Take away someone maps and they’re screwed, give them a map and they’re you make them productive.
As you know I’m a bit of a maps addict (thanks, Google), here’s three apps (in no particular sequence) you may find cool:
The Casper online flight tracker. A beautiful implementation for aircraft tracking.
The marinetraffic.com vessel tracking site is amazing. And I checked, looking at the vessels map in a browser and looking out the window at vessels outside the harbor is a direct match. Amazing stuff.
And of course you might be interested in turbulence, so there’s the Live Turbulence Explorer to tell you where to watch out when you’re taking off with your jet-pack.
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You could say we brought upon ourselves the economic and environmental tragedies of today. And you’d probably be correct. Everyone is still finger pointing because, by definition there can be no absolute answer, so it’s safe. Fairness is at the bottom of all of this, but where? And why.
Perhaps a narrow definition of private property got us here, whether it’s carbon credits, water or whatever, we could probably stand some examination of property and responsibility. It’s actually a very interesting problem this business of problem solving.
Climbing the wrong hill is something not easy to observe. If you travel in problem solving circles you can easily visualise the nature of the problem, the problem of solving the problem that is.
It’s easier to solve a problem if know where you are. For example imaging being on a journey, you are in a dense fog climbing a hill hoping to pass over a mountain range. But what if you knew there’s a higher hill that has an easier path across the range nearby, of what if the other hill has the path and yours doesn’t. Obviously you would back down and change hills in the latter case. But you are in a dense fog, remember? Mr. fog is making a hard time for you. And if you’ve got the crowd following you their all-knowing leader or you’re being swept up the wrong hill with the crowd what’s going to happen?
A big thanks and congrats to Lin Ostrom.
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This is a great example of someone doing it right. Wish I could have been in LA for this.
First, if you don’t know what El Sistema is, watch the video.
Okay, so now imagine how this concept, all the good will and constructive energy, could be expanded.
And then the reporter said: “You are in America now, what Americans?” Dudamel didn’t miss a beat and shot back ”I am talking about Americans!” — to which the room packed with journalists erupted in laughter and clapping.
That Latin America is indeed part of America is something that Dudamel brings up often, but always with good humor and patience. At his news conference he reiterated that America is one — Argentina, Venezuela, Mexico, the United States, all included. That message is likely to resound in Los Angeles, a city that is half Hispanic and home to millions who migrated from southern portions of the Americas.
I get chills when I watch this TED Talk (WordPress is not letting me embed the video for some reason so follow the link; GD begins talk at about 5:20). The youth orchestra concept is powerful, wouldn’t it be cool if someone could get this together on a larger international scale? Anyone out there with more brains and bucks than me to work on such a project?
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One of the great things about summer is friends visiting town, hanging out and hitting the beach a lot, frescobol, BBQing and breezy nights sharing good wine, grappa and our other fav adult bevs. And let us not forget banana daiquiris (have you tried my recipe?), my Brazilian carnaval concoctions and other experiments at lunch time seaside to keep the August momentum rolling. And time for movies; I love summer break.
Accomplishments include a killer provoleta (sorry, no pics cuz it was too difficult to get the camera), home made ravioli and pasta, chocolate tarts (blueberry this time, peach last time) and of course the requisite weekly pizza experiment. Here’s some pics, I will post more in September but it’s getting late tonight and time to hit the hay.
It was great seeing you all, hope next summer is as much fun, am thinking about moving the location to make it easier for everyone and also have a larger kitchen. Enjoy the pics:
pizza experiment #nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
pao de queijo
making ravioli in a tiny kitchen
chocolate tart (with blueberries)
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I know, I know. It’s been a long time between posts. My only explanation, truth be told excuse, is it appears there’s an global conspiracy to keep me from enjoying recreation time. Until I solve this one, here’s a video that caught my attention. Enjoy.
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