That’s how my hometown looks after two weeks of mappping, not bad at all!
I admit I feel a little proud when I see my work nicely rendered on the osm server but unfortunately I can’t tell anybody because nobody knows openstreetmap and even if I try to explain people don’t see the point in “making a copy of google maps”.
Anyway I’m sure that in a couple of years people will start using my map and they won’t even notice :) (and by the way mapping is way too fun).
Subliminal messages from Marvel Comics
I guess if Stark upgraded to kde4 :)
After years of uncertainty I know where I am: I bought a gps receiver!
This little guy worked out of the box (no ugly bluetooth) and it also features a nice magnet to stick to my car top (I look like a cop :P).
I immediately took it for a ride and this is the result:
The next step is to use it as a navigator…
As usual around this time of the year I turn one year older and as usual I have to use a calculator to know how old I am: 23
I can’t remember a number that changes so often…
As usual fosdem videos take forever to see the light, so I’m posting the ‘home made’ one from my girlfriend Giulia. Click on the image to download.
It is on my home server so be patient :-)
xkcd.com
From what you see on the net it looks like:
people simply ignore languages like OCaml, run as far as possible from C&C++, consider Java as everyday-every-use language and is really attracted to scripting languages (python, php,…).
Lately I had to admit that:
I simply ignore scripting languages, I run as far as possible from Java, I consider C&C++ as everyday-every-use language and I’m really attracted to languages like OCaml.
After this consideration I felt ironic that all my university exams were in Java and that my next assignment is a simple torrent system in Java.
I’m starting to hate coffee :-)
By the way the official torrent spec is really rough fortunately I found various community maintained spec much more accurate.
I don't work for Sun
Well well,
we are back in Italy (sadly), after a 3-days-diet of french fries and ice age weather.
My talk passed way too fast but smoothly, the fosdem guys very pretty excited about the project and will propose it to their university.
I also attended Renzo Davoli’s lighting talk about berkley sockets that I really enjoyed and we managed to talk a little bit about Marionnet italian invasion.
The last talk I saw was about ext4 from Theodore Ts’o, although I wasn’t really on the topic I always appreciate a good speaker.
As my first FLOSS conference I must say I’m impressed by the organization and the whole hacker community that despite what people may think is here to stay and to grow over time.
Well the first morning was really exciting, think of it as 2000 nerds acting as if it was the first day of school!!
Organization is incredible, they managed to control the orde and everything flows smoothly.
Now I am going to revise my talk a little because I saw a bunch of people talking about Marionnet and now I’m pretty nervous :P
Giulia is uploading her (20000) pictures on flickr and I can’t wait to see fosdem people reactions as they are the only fosdem pics as of now.
As a real first post I’m pleased to write that I’m at Fosdem 09!!!
We just arrived (ma and my girlfriend) in Brussels after 4 hours of delay due to bad weather and while we go to catch some dinner we’ll plan the conference.
Probably late this night I’ll practice my (lightning) talk: check it out
