Always loved this quote from Cliff Stoll & Gary Schubert.I may or may not agree, but certainly I find more in my reach to meditate on that rather than about the sound of clapping with just one hand 😉
Back to the university time, before my call to the enterprise problems, I was a maniac of everything had to do with computational geometry and computer graphic in general. One of my favourite toys was LParser, a program which would produce elegant 3D sculpures based on simple recursive definitions. It was fascinating to…
I was lazily reading the Italian version of Scientific American, and I got on a very interesting article [ per noi italiani, il link è questo]: the point of the author was that computer and devices often interrupt us with events demanding our attention, regardless of the fact that we may be busy…
That’s how a colleague defined the weather last weekend in Seattle, and I loved the expression:-)It was lovely indeed. Seattle, Bellevue and Redmond are very, very nice places: and this comes from somebody who’s definitely spoiled in terms of outlooks (I was born and spent almost 30 years in Camogli, one of the…
I finally had the chance to see the mother ship. Driving on the motorway and seeing an exit for “Everett” was really amusing 🙂 the whole place is full of such hints, and needless to say I’m enjoying it a lot…
OK, we’ve all read for the last x years about how RFID is going to be a breakthrough technology for the supply chain. But what about more immediate consequences on the daily life of everybody? I’ve found the reason for which IMHO it’s worth waiting for a widespread adoption of RFID tags on…
Steve Cook gathers in one post three of the “must read” references about metadata out there. Find the time to check them out if you didn’t already, they are a great way of framing the matter in the correct context.
Sometime it’s only natural to sketch something senseless while following a presentation, having a phone call or similar activities. It’s not rare at all to see on paper trays in the neighborhood of a phone all sorts of spirals, patterns or smiley. Well, TabletPC and ArtRage can really bring this habit to new…
In an article about the new release of WS-ReliableMessaging on xml.coverpages.org, hosted by OASIS, among the references there’s a post of mine! And immediatly after the WS-RM specs page, so rank is not even that bad… Yeppa! 🙂
It’s so à la Cambrian Era fashion. Nature seems to be trying all possible forms of survival, while the selection make sure that only the stable niches will be occupied (in fact, the stable niches will be defined by the process). What elicited this not-so-neat consideration of mine? A growing trend I’ve observed…