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After two mapping weeks

paracetamolo — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 06:52:59 +0000

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).

Inside an Iron Man??? KDE of course!

paracetamolo — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:02:45 +0000

Subliminal messages from Marvel Comics

I guess if Stark upgraded to kde4 :)

I know where I am

paracetamolo — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:09:13 +0000

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…

Turning 23

paracetamolo — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 08:27:54 +0000

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…

Fosdem video

paracetamolo — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 10:59:17 +0000

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 :-)

Back from FOSDEM

paracetamolo — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:32:48 +0000

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.

First day

paracetamolo — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 19:03:37 +0000

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.

Hello fosdem!

paracetamolo — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 20:49:29 +0000

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