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[ bamboo ] 17:50, Thursday, 19 June 2008

That's really funny :)

It's a copy'n'paste culture indeed.

[ bamboo ] 13:33, Tuesday, 20 May 2008

Another great Ted talk. I particularly love the sequence from 7:08 to 7:40.

I'm the man. The final man. You know, we've been mutating for 4 billion years but now because it's me we've stopped.

Except this time is true. :)

[ bamboo ] 09:43, Tuesday, 4 December 2007

What a great experience.

A chance to interact live with a dear friend. Free Software, Hacking, Women, Futurama, McDonalds, love spreading, Militant Atheism, Monty Python, Douglas Adams and the French Way.

Had lots of interesting exchange of ideas with Massi, ranging from "extensible parsing through composeable PEGs with  optimal performance" to Carlos CastaƱeda, Jesus Christ, meta-physics, religion and Pink Floyd. The Cryptonomicon really got me.

Got to put a face on Joachim and see how really cool Unity is.

Jeroen IKVM Frijters is a funny guy!

On Thursday I got to talk about db4o which led me to meet a few db4o users hanging around the conference.

Pedro Santos had an interesting question, how to monitor and control the usage of computational resources in a managed client/server application? In other words, how a sysadmin can make sure a specific client won't DOS the application?

For .NET servers running on Windows there are performance counters, what about Mono servers running on Linux?

I've also got to spread the gospel about boo for which I got a hugely positive response.

Thomas "Gaia" Hansen seemed to really get it and so we had lots of interesting discussions on how to take over the world boo style.

Jackson wants to hack on better nullable type support for boo!

Mark wants an extensible language where NullReferenceExceptions are impossible.

Miguel reassured me once again mcs won't be rewritten on top of the boo compiler infrastructure :)

The presentation material is here.

Looking forward to the next one.

[ bamboo ] 22:01, Friday, 9 November 2007

Evelyn Glennie shares with us just how.

Amazing presentation by an amazing human being/musician.

[ bamboo ] 08:02, Friday, 9 November 2007

Lessig gives an inspiring talk on how creativity is being strangled by the law.

Quoting JB: "We need more of him"

We certainly do. We certainly do.

[ bamboo ] 07:45, Tuesday, 23 November 2004

Nice teaser but I just can't wait to see Sam Rockwell playing Zaphod.

[ bamboo ] 09:52, Tuesday, 31 August 2004

Simply amazing!

Just watch and check the coincidences for yourself. It's quite a trip.

[ bamboo ] 15:28, Thursday, 5 August 2004

I've finally had the chance to watch Fahrenheit 9/11 last night. One of the funniest pieces I've seen in a long time.
The americans on the line behind us didn't seem to understand why I laughed all the way through.
Homer Simpson puts it best: "It's funny because it's true!".

[ bamboo ] 21:51, Friday, 30 July 2004

I have never heard anything like that.

The Sun Ship of John Coltrane, Elvin Jones, McCoy Tyner and Jimmy Garrision took me far far away to the deepest and darkest corners of the universe.

Ohm.

An even flow of love that irradiates from the very essence of the existence.