1 === Fri, 31st October - Critical Mass ===
3 {{CriticalMass.jpg | The Boston Critical Mass (stock photo)}}
5 A few friends from 1CC invited me to this subversive event called the
6 [[http://bostoncriticalmass.org/|Critical Mass]]. I used the complimentary Acetarium bicycle.
8 While our group of 200+ bikes was riding on a roadway, we went into a road block. They knocked
9 down a couple of bikers and tried to stop others. I also ran into a young cop who had the bad
10 idea of walking to the middle of the road.
12 It was a lot of fun :-)
15 === Mon, 27th October - Embedded Systems Conference Boston ===
17 {{http://beagleboard.org/static/images/beagle-home-promo-left-2008-07-01.jpg | the awesome Beagle Board}}
19 Today I gave a talk about porting Sugar to the [[http://www.digikey.com/beagleboard|Beagle Board]],
20 a nice development system for Texas Instrument's OMAP3530 processor.
22 Slides here: [[http://www.codewiz.org/pub/olpc/slides/SugarBeagle.odp]]
24 Details of the talk here: [[https://www.cmpevents.com/ESCe08/a.asp?option=G&V=3&id=625476]]
26 === Tue, 21st October - Back to Boston ===
28 {{BostonSkyline.jpg|Cambdrige (left shore) and Boston (right shore) - stock photo}}
30 I have greatly missed this place ever since I had to leave earlier this year. My visa
31 is still a temporary B-1, which means I'll have to leave within 3 months. During this
32 time, I'm planning to give a talk, finally nail down the SugarLabs server infrastructure
33 and meet with the OLPC folks to discuss common goals.
35 I'll be staying at the [[http://www.acetarium.com/ | Acetarium]], the most exclusive
36 hacker accomodation in Cambridge.
38 === Fri, 10th October - ENEA research center ===
40 Me and my uber-geeky Italian friends went to visit the ENEA Research Center on the Brasimone
41 lake in Emilia Romagna.
43 [[http://www.brasimone.enea.it/]]
45 {{Pictures/vacation/brasimone_2008/P1010025.JPG|A researcher showing us the test fusion reactors|maxwidth=640}}
47 The center is located inside a dismissed nuclear plant, quite a suggestive setting for a lab researching
48 fourth-generation fission reactors and even nuclear fusion for the [[http://www.iter.org/ | ITER]]
51 Enjoy all the photos by asterix: [[Pictures/vacation/brasimone_2008]]