From 97878c5fad26db8a17a0027132505c800a35d9e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bernie Innocenti Date: Sat, 2 May 2009 08:10:25 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Add 2008 blog --- blog/2008/November | 1 + blog/2008/October | 80 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ blog/2008/September | 3 ++ 3 files changed, 84 insertions(+) create mode 100644 blog/2008/November create mode 100644 blog/2008/October create mode 100644 blog/2008/September diff --git a/blog/2008/November b/blog/2008/November new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7dd559a --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/2008/November @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +This space intentionally left blank \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/blog/2008/October b/blog/2008/October new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0d1cdbd --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/2008/October @@ -0,0 +1,80 @@ +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 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c1b90eb --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/2008/September @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +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 -- 2.25.1