Chaos’n'Coffee

It’s just the usual bloody deadline.
This one is due tomorrow, the soft part of it. So I expect to be slightly more available since tomorrow night. But I’ll still be hacking like hell till next week.

Meanwhile, lot of stuff is going on here, and it’s a shame I can’t spend enough time to go into details… but let’s try on a postcard:

Half-a-Hackday
Yes on saturday I was in Ally Pally for the Hackday. Half-a-day because I had to leave in the evening to have some hope to meet the aforementioned deadline. But I had a chance to catch up with Ludo, Antonio and Enrica and speak some Italian with them.
Also other “old” friends like good Pedro and Colin who are becoming usual conference buddies, James who was planning to tinker with Arduino, Ian who’s by now probably the most prolific event host in the geek-o-sphere and many others. I also managed to miss some, especially some new twitter-buddies (Uldis and Pixeldiva, among others), those that in the past weeks became the constant “voices” of my days (once I had radio for that, but it was far less interactive).
Since the plan was to stay until 6pm, I didn’t start a hack of my own, but was planning to join Jeremy since he introduced his idea at Reboot and I found it quite teasing.
The team was huge, the ideas stormed for a few hours while the hackfight took shape. It’s been fun. A lot. And the project, I must say, has been a very interesting example of how much can and can’t be done between the physical limits of 24 hours, with a mistery team, made of humans (who need to sleep or rest, even if Nat and Colin didn’t sleep at all, but they’re super-humans).
I’m very proud of having been part of this team, and of contributing some ideas to the game mechanics side of it.
So much so that instead of living at 6 I was still hanging around Ally Pally past 9.30 :)
Anyway, for a detailed chronicle of the hack and the project flow, have a look at Jeremy’s article

Beside hackday, life is going on fast and there will be news soon.
For the time being, it seems that a few more Italian friends joined the London bandwagon, so I spent some time in the past few days listening to their stories and trying to give some advice. I also thought the blog could be a good place where to put these… but that’s the kind of post I feel quite uncomfortable with. Oh well, we’ll see.
Oh and another thing: I was reading Jeremy’s post, and noticed he linked me on codewitch.org which is odd because that’s been on hiatus for five monthes or so now. But I guess that means something, or that not only in a lifetime we are asked to play a thousand roles, but that we are supposed to play them thoroughly. Or just that google doesn’t forget easily. Go figure :)
So maybe I’ll bring back codewitch soon.