Curiosity

I mean, you could puke because of IE8 for sure, but to make an ad to support the idea… :-P > I’m not really sure that this ad is from M$ but, what the hell, it’s disgustingly funny! :D

While Twitter is down (O_o), I decided to put this here: Linus Torvalds Facts. LOL! :D

1-Click to go from 2.7 to 2.8: BOOM!!! ;)

Last episode of the latest “Passate Parola” episode of the great Marco Travaglio. I wish it was in English: it would simplify a lot the life of who would like to understand the “Berlusconi’s Story”. There are Italian subtitles though: it could be useful for someone that is able to read Italian at lease.

Just a quick one. First day of the Google I/O 2009 in San Francisco (CA). Apart from a lot of informative and interesting topics and breakout sessions (I mainly focused on App Engine and Android), I came back at home full of: Stickers T-shirt Google Chrome comic paperback version A brand new “Google I/O device”, that is a black HTC Magic sim and firmware unlocked for developers + Android Market with Paid Apps support + Amazon Mp3 store +…!!!. How much? For FREE, of course!!! ...

Good Jobs Here at Home Ending Bad Habits I wish I had such a President: I don’t know if he is really going to do what he says, but at least he says correct and agreeable things.

After I received an email, this imaginary story came to my mind: Kiddo>Mom, my friend G. Android came today at school and said “he is Open Source and it’s cooooool”. Not everyone understood in it and ignored him. Then we all got it, and he became very popular. Can I do it too? Pleeeeeease!!! Mom>Ok S. Symbian, but don’t forget that you need to explain IP, binary compatibility, Active Objects, Descriptors… and you can’t give away all the secrets of your mommy away to those Open Source folks. Kiddo>But moooom, this is not really… Mom>Hey young man! This is my house and I say what you can do and can’t do. You do Open Source, but in my way! Nokia way! ...

For the once of you that tried “home made ways” to update their ADP1, like my previously published how-to, this news can be interesting. Google and HTC finally managed to push-out an official page on the HTC site, to explain step-by-step how to update firmware and baseband of the device. I just did it, having a very pleasant and straightforward experience. The phone seems to be way more stable, bug-free and the battery lasts for more then 50 seconds ;) ...

Another update for Detronizator.org’s theme. Say hello to “The Journalist”, from Lucian E. Marin. Great job Lucian! ;-)

WOW! I mean… WOW! Look at what people are doing using the power of HTML5 + a very fast Javascript Engine! Those experiments are collected here: Chrome Experiments (note the subtitle: “Not your mother’s JavaScript” - LOL). Bear in mind: this is not only because of Chrome itself. This is the power of HTML5 Canvas element, plus, of couse, the very (very) fast V8 Javascript engine). And indeed, I ran them on my Safari 4 beta without a glitch: the Javascript engine, SquirrelFish Extreme (SFX) is pretty good too. ...