July 18, 2008

Twitter is down...

But if it wasn’t, I would have come up with this: Real men don’t send mails to everybody, they flame somebody and let the world distribute their message. (from Lorenzo)

July 15, 2008

Video of the week

I may decide to upload a video once a week, using Animoto to mix up photos and music together. Do you like it?

July 11, 2008

Seattle and Chicago

I’m in Seattle, and will be in Chicago on July 16th and 17th. Anyone around?Or, suggestions?

July 9, 2008

Flying to Orcas Island

Yesterday I had tons of fun with Mike, a colleague of mine. We flew to Orcas Island and had dinner there. Amazing!

July 4, 2008

Tired, a bit

I’m a little bit tired, but satisfied: today I finally found an apartment here in Luxembourg, slightly more expensive than expected, but really nice, comfortable, and spacious. I’ll therefore be able to host 3-4 friends at the same time. If you know me, and know that I’d gladly host you (which is true for about 3.1 billion people on the planet, I let you guess who they are :-D), let me know. ... Read more

June 29, 2008

Internet connection is a human right down here

Just landed in Tallinn, Estonia, and I was pleasantly surprised to hear, from the Hotel Concierge, that “Internet connection is a human right down here”. Like air, water, and such. They rock. Check out my slides on Cloud Computing, and some pictures from Luca.

June 27, 2008

ACTA sunt servanda

Do you know the latin phrase, Pacta sunt servanda? It means that pacts (pacta is plural for pact) are to be (sunt) respected (servanda, to be observed). I’m playing with words, and in fact I’m talking about ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. Governments are trying to impose ACTA to the world. I’m at Reboot.dk right now, listening to Peter Sunde and Magnus Eriksson (from The Pirate Bay). Taken from wikipedia (bold is mine): “The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is a proposed plurilateral trade agreement that would impose strict enforcement of intellectual property rights related to Internet activity and trade in information-based goods. ... Read more

June 26, 2008

Copenhagen, day two

Second day in Copenhagen, first day at Reboot.dk. More on flickr. Cool conference, I must say.