http://chaosncoffee.com/blog Sparkles of caffeinated nonsense Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:26:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I don't know if it's because it was Bastille day or just because for two days in a row we had mostly sun, but today it felt different, so I made a small resolution on writing down a note about it, and here I am in the heart of the ... http://chaosncoffee.com/blog/2008/07/15/leaving-a-mark/ Today I read on WorldChanging this post about the debacle concerning the climate impacts of walking vs. driving. John Tierney writes: If you walk 1.5 miles, Mr. Goodall calculates, and replace those calories by drinking about a cup of milk, the greenhouse emissions connected with that milk (like methane from the ... http://chaosncoffee.com/blog/2008/06/22/walking-vs-driving/ Plenty of news these days, but not the right time to talk about those. Just wanted to quickly point out this thing that dawned on me now, sa I was finally having a closer look at Plurk. Plurk, you may say, is yet another twitter clone. I like to say it's twitter ... http://chaosncoffee.com/blog/2008/06/19/on-the-run-for-digital-ground-and-its-value/ another day, somehow shorter than the first, but equally engaging. I eventually did my small presentation, with the effect that I realized a good title for it just while presenting it. Here you can find the slides, published on google docs: Geeky note #1: presenting in google docs is ok... for a ... http://chaosncoffee.com/blog/2008/06/01/post-barcamplondon4/ The first day of this first barcamplondon of the post-BBC era is over, and here I am to write down a few considerations on the experience. The overall impression is awesome, and I think the general mood is that this event is definitely up to the standard we were used, although ... http://chaosncoffee.com/blog/2008/05/31/back-from-day-1-of-barcamplondon4/ Yesterday while reading my daily techmeme I saw this headline: Beautiful to use: Nokia unveils three new handsets that merge modern functionality with classic and sophisticated looks The first thing I thought was "wow! Are they really releasing the Nokia Remade?" Actually no, the new Nokias are just pretty neat handhelds, but nothing ... http://chaosncoffee.com/blog/2008/04/29/like-a-zippo/ About one week ago I wrote a post with a similar title on my Italian blog. It was to announce the "beta" of Filo, a small service (well, more like a weekend project) that I developed a while ago, and that turned out to be a good testbed for ... http://chaosncoffee.com/blog/2008/04/28/filo-the-line-that-joins-your-dots/ In case you didn't notice, yesterday was Earth Day. I'm not a big fan of whatever-days, but there've been a couple of interesting events in the last 24 hours that stimulated my interest. First, Dopplr added a carbon calculator service. Discussing it last night with MattB, I mentioned the fact that ... http://chaosncoffee.com/blog/2008/04/23/earth-day-focus-on-co2/ This week I'm circling on the Milan orbit. My headquarters until friday will be the newly opened and very white Cowo, a coworking space in the forever up and coming Lambrate area. Monday actually started exploring the neighbourhood and ended up with an introductory coffee for Alberto to the place. Milan these ... http://chaosncoffee.com/blog/2008/04/16/milan-burst/ Here at Headshift we love being green. We read our McDonough, some of us cycle a lot, we even have a green (and orange, ok) logo! And we always, always shut down unused appliances, like the coffee machine. Now, in order for a coffee machine to work it needs to warm ... http://chaosncoffee.com/blog/2008/04/11/coffee/