I know I’ll now have some problems for posting this, but I can’t deny that it is VERY FUNNY!!! It’s a blog, with daily comic-strips about a very particular “couple”: Jesus and Mohammed. The blog is entitled: Jesus and Mo. I was unable to find the name of the author (what a surprise), but I really don’t care. Is he American, Saudi, Egyptian, Iraqi, Thai, Chinese or Napolitan? I really don’t care, as long as the strips are smart and funny. ...
That was pretty exciting. A free, big, enlightening event about the “Google Stuff”… Ok, ok. Who spoke with me here knows that it was NOT so enlightening: most of the knowledge they brought from USA is and was already available on the web. But that’s probably not the point. The point is, I believe, to share. Share the culture, the vision and… the APIs. The Venue: Wembley Stadium!!! I went there for mainly two topics: Android and AppEngine. About Android, the presenter, Mike Jennings, was very funny (and you will see him as the second presenter in the video below) and a “great character”. But his knowledge of the Platform was pretty basic. I believe he sort of Project Manager or something like that. Plus, in the second part they invited to do a “technical talk about the SDK” a guy, Carl-Gustaf Harroch. He is developing an application that involves a bit of LBS (Location Based Services) and some Google Maps. Ok nice, but he straggled quite soon with our questions about… almost everything of the SDK. And, yes, I was quite bastard with my own questions. Come one: how can you do a talk like that without even knowing “enough” what is the meaning of the Tags within the AndroidManifest.xml? He was even quite young and not very confident, and he was unable to introduce the basic concepts before talking about more complex and in deep stuff. At the end, quite disappointing session, I must say. Probably, I knew more about it :-P . The USB freebie ;) About AppEngine, I went to a “CodeLab”: a session where you are supposed to code. And I did, focusing more on my own Python code. They were available for help and questions, either about the application they proposed to build, or about your own. “In chair”, Mano Marks: confident. Probably too confident. But, at the end, he was helpful, even if an answer or two where quite “upsetting” (I mean: if I ask a question about something you don’t know, and I tell you that you are wrong, don’t be arrogant and confident; wait and see my proof!!!). Now, let’s see the Keynote: ...
Deadly Funny!!! [Original Source: Zein’s Blog]
Sono sempre stati tra i miei “candies/sweets/cakes” preferiti (quando si tratta di cose piccole e veloci) (ovviamente, incomparabili ad un bel Baba’ ;) ). Il loro concentrato di cioccolata abbinata a Caffe’ o Nocciola e’ un “Marriage Made in Heaven”. Ma non sono qui per parlarvi di questo. Che sono un chiattone lo sapete gia’. Sono qui per parlare dell’ennesimo parto della mia mente malata circa la “Comparazione di Uomo e Donna”. O meglio, di quello che penso debbano essere Uomo e Donna per far si che le cose funzionino (si vede che ho il cuore nello zucchero? :-P ). ...
Cioe’, Saviano riceve la solidarieta’ dall’Ordine dei Giornalisti perche': […] ha aiutato anche l’informazione a capire meglio come la criminalità organizzata corrompa e devasti tante zone d’Italia. Dobbiamo a lui, come a Rosaria Capacchione, a Lirio Abbate, a Pino Manià ci, a Nino Amadore e ad altri giornalisti, una fondamentale opera di risveglio della coscienza civile. Le parole di Saviano prendono di mira stavolta anche le aree di contiguità e di compromissione con gli interessi della malavita presenti all’interno del giornalismo italiano. La nostra solidarietà - sottolineano -suonerebbe vuota e ipocrita se fingessimo di non averle lette: è del tutto evidente che chi è compromesso o anche solo distratto nei confronti della grande criminalità non ha diritto di cittadinanza nel mondo dell’informazione, che si propone invece obiettivi di tutt’altro segno, quelli della trasparenza e della denuncia […] ...
Today, 10th of September 2008, the final, complete, clock and anti-clock wise test of the Large Hadron Collider was a major success. The LHCis working and ready to start to “crash protons”… and probably blow up your (our all) mind ;) . 4.5K-1.9K: brrrrrrr Some interesting links (that are updated on a frequency of 15/30 minutes): LHC Cooldown Status - It shows the temperatures in the different sectors. While they were testing it was on an average of 1.9k!!! O_o ...
Some scientists working on the LHC at the Cern of Geneva had a cool idea to make people aware of “what” they are going to do. On the 10th of September there will be the First Beam (more info on the official website/blog), and I like the way they make sure people understand it’s NOT the end of the World. My personal answer to them is: Hey man, this shit is good! ;) ...
How can I say it without being unpolite with M$? … I simply can’t! [Original Source: melablog.it]
I don’t have an answer to this, it’s too early (we don’t even have a screenshot of it). But I strongly suggest to take a look a the Google Chrome Comic Book: a very new, fresh, funny and precise (!!!) way to introduce an incoming software. They discuss a lot of different topics: * Problems they wanted to solve * Performance * Process Isolation * Javascript VM and Performance * Sandboxing * Phishing and Malware * UI principles Very interesting. And, again, very innovative. Ah, the Rendering Engine they chosen is… WebKit (what a surprise!!! ;-) ) and… it’s fully open source. An early leaked screenshot follows. ...