Monday, September 10, 2007
Thanks for revamped work by Michael and the rest of the K2 theme team, finally this website too enjoys the bliss of the jQuery library for all interface sugar (namely search and interactive archive navigation). Thank you!
Sunday, September 9, 2007
Why do I blog this?: Aibo and the Nabaztag are definitely two of the most interesting examples of interactive gadgets. Aibos are sensitive to the physical environment and “learn” from it, while Nabaztag focuses on reacting to network events (feeds, email, other Nabaztag statuses) to create instances of peripheral (ambient) knowledge. The idea of these [...]
Saturday, September 8, 2007
Almost on a whim, after watching Serenity a couple of weeks ago, I spent the last day or so going through the 14 episodes of Firefly. Now, I’m usually immune to tv series but I’m starting to see a pattern: sci-fi gets me. Battlestar Galactica first, Firefly now (well we should mention Star Trek too, [...]
Friday, September 7, 2007
Going through a few months worth of feeds, noticed Anu’s post about him leaving Headshift. Of course I’ve been knowing the fact for a while, but still, seeing his feed there in the same page where the voices of other friends and now-ex-colleagues are collected and aggregated, makes me think of this whole crazy spinning [...]
Thursday, September 6, 2007
I’m sure there must be some kind of odd cosmic alignment going on today, whose most unfortunate side effects on planet Earth have undoubtly manifested as the sudden unavailability of Twitter and extreme slugginesh of services like Flickr and de.licio.us. If you add to this the apocalyptic amount of white noise generated by yesterday’s release [...]
Monday, September 3, 2007
My Oxfordian exile ended on saturday. It’s been quite sweet, especially thanks to Victoria’s hospitality, a very patient couch-guest, I must say. I owe you a big one. So I’m in London again, although still practically homeless, even if technically I’m not. A long story, indeed, worth a longer post as soon as the dust [...]