From: bernie Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 07:28:07 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Edit page Blog/2009/April X-Git-Url: https://codewiz.org/gitweb?p=wiki.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=e1fcc6754cfe9c4adcb7c0df46d90dd9ce976879 Edit page Blog/2009/April --- diff --git a/Blog/2008/November b/Blog/2008/November deleted file mode 100644 index 7dd559a..0000000 --- a/Blog/2008/November +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -This space intentionally left blank \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Blog/2008/October b/Blog/2008/October deleted file mode 100644 index 0d1cdbd..0000000 --- a/Blog/2008/October +++ /dev/null @@ -1,80 +0,0 @@ -The story continues at [[Blog/2008/November]]. - -== Bernie's brain backup of October 2008 == - -=== Fri, 31st October - Ties === - -Met my old buddy Ties on Jabber and he pointed me at a few nice photos from his Flickr -photostream: - - * http://flickr.com/photos/80049722@N00/2848749676/sizes/o/in/set-72157607884586577/ - * http://flickr.com/photos/80049722@N00/2749741413/in/set-72157607884586577/ - -=== Fri, 31st October - Critical Mass === - -{{CriticalMass.jpg | The Boston Critical Mass (stock photo)}} - -A few friends from 1CC invited me to this subversive event called the -[[http://bostoncriticalmass.org/|Critical Mass]]. I used the complimentary Acetarium bicycle. - -While our group of 200+ bikes was riding on a roadway, we went into a road block. They knocked -down a couple of bikers and tried to stop others. I also ran into a young cop who had the bad -idea of walking to the middle of the road. - -It was a lot of fun :-) - -=== Tue, 28th October - Daneel and Giskard == - -{{Daneel.jpg|Daneel, my faithful Apple iBook}} - -My old PowerPC iBook served me well for over 5 years, accompanied me around the -world twice or so, carrying three Linux distros on the same hard drive. Not to -mention all the stickers, which conferred it great hacker value. One month ago, -the integrated ATI GPU broke beyond any possibility of repair. - -Such a great loss had to be compensated with something at least half as cool. -I chose a lightweight Lenovo Thinkpad X200s, with a LED backlit 12" display, a -low-voltage U9300 processor and **no** stupid CD reader or writer. - -Today my package was delivered home and I installed Ubuntu 8.10 Interpid, just -one day before the official release. - -{{http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3061/2932872936_c7a3b17a95.jpg | Giskard, my new Lenovo Thinkpad X200s}} - -=== Mon, 27th October - Embedded Systems Conference Boston === - -{{http://beagleboard.org/static/images/beagle-home-promo-left-2008-07-01.jpg | the awesome Beagle Board}} - -Today I gave a talk about porting Sugar to the [[http://www.digikey.com/beagleboard|Beagle Board]], -a nice development system for Texas Instrument's OMAP3530 processor. - -Slides here: [[http://www.codewiz.org/pub/olpc/slides/SugarBeagle.odp]] - -Details of the talk here: [[https://www.cmpevents.com/ESCe08/a.asp?option=G&V=3&id=625476]] - -=== Tue, 21st October - Back to Boston === - -{{BostonSkyline.jpg|Cambdrige (left shore) and Boston (right shore) - stock photo}} - -I have greatly missed this place ever since I had to leave earlier this year. My visa -is still a temporary B-1, which means I'll have to leave within 3 months. During this -time, I'm planning to give a talk, finally nail down the SugarLabs server infrastructure -and meet with the OLPC folks to discuss common goals. - -I'll be staying at the [[http://www.acetarium.com/ | Acetarium]], the most exclusive -hacker accomodation in Cambridge. - -=== Fri, 10th October - ENEA research center === - -Me and my uber-geeky Italian friends went to visit the ENEA Research Center on the Brasimone -lake in Emilia Romagna. - - [[http://www.brasimone.enea.it/]] - -{{Pictures/vacation/brasimone_2008/P1010025.JPG|A researcher showing us the test fusion reactors|maxwidth=640}} - -The center is located inside a dismissed nuclear plant, quite a suggestive setting for a lab researching -fourth-generation fission reactors and even nuclear fusion for the [[http://www.iter.org/ | ITER]] -international effort. - -Enjoy all the photos by asterix: [[Pictures/vacation/brasimone_2008]] diff --git a/Blog/2008/September b/Blog/2008/September deleted file mode 100644 index c1b90eb..0000000 --- a/Blog/2008/September +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ -We didn't blog very much this month. Actually, we didn't blog at all. - -And we go so proud of it that we use plural to refer to ourselves. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/blog/2009/April b/blog/2009/April new file mode 100644 index 0000000..41bbb09 --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/2009/April @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +== Bernie's brain backup of April 2009 == + +=== Negligent === + +I've neglected to updare this blog for a few months. Several things happened, including: + + * 2009 Jan: Visited the [[Pictures/vacation/EastCoast2008|East Coast]] with Silvia + * 2009 Jan: Attended the [[Pictures/conf/XOCamp2009|XO Camp 2]] + * 2009 Feb: Attended the [[Pictures/conf/Fosdem2009|Fosdem 2009]] with a few friends from Italy and SugarLabs colleagues + * 2009 Feb: Visited [[Pictures/vacation/brussels_riga_stokholm_2009/|Brussels, Riga and Stockholm]] with Tommaso + * 2009 Apr: Attended a meeting/miniconf in [[Pictures/conf/Bolzano2009|Bolzano]] with WalterBender + +I am currently back in Florence, trying to find a way back in the US. + + +=== Tue, April 14th - Tokyo === + +I couldn't resist grabbing a super-cheap round trip to japan, a place I've always wanted +to visit. By "always", I mean: since when I was in kindergarten, watching great series +like [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel_Jeeg|SteelJeeg]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazinger_Z|MazingerZ]] on TV. +My dad accepted to accompany me in this trip even though he wasn't particularly fond of Japan. Until now, that is! + +The first day was simply amazing, but I'm way to tired to tell a lot about it. +The [[Pictures/vacation/japan_2009/Tokyo/Tuesday_April_14|photos and videos]] hopefully document it appropriately. + +NOTE: if you can't watch the videos in the wiki, get a recent browser featuring HTML5 or send me a patch +to add support for old-style HTML video embedding.