Well, the OLPC project finally has some production hardware to show. And - frankly, it gets me more drooling than yet another sleek Apple design. It’s quirky (that always scores brownie points with me), it’s cool (what is cooler than connecting kids), and running a simulation under VMware shows something that is, well… different in […]

1. Do not show people designs in the pub
While I was doing that, someone passed a basket of chicken wings over my keyboard. Nothing bad, except for the fact that the bowl with sauce in the basked wasn’t level and thus leaked over the wings and, through the basket, on my keyboard. Result: a very […]

Take a cucumber, some tomatos, and a capsicum from the fridge (the veggies must be cold). Go to your garden/balcony[1] and cut a nice handful of herbs (basil, thyme, coriander/cilantro and marjoran formed my catch). Cut the lot, add olive oil, balsamico, a bit of honey or sugar and some salt and pepper. Blend so […]

A quickie - we are busy putting Squeak out under an OSI compliant license, solving at last the whole mess around the original Squeak license.

The baseline version has been re-licensed by Apple, so now the task is to find all contributors since the very first version of Squeak, and ask them to sign a […]

I’ve been toying with the idea of buying the SMC Skype WiFi phone but never had a real reason for it apart from the obvious gadgetness (gadgetosity? ) of the thing. However, eBay internally uses Skype quite a bit so I went for it. It’s a nice little phone, I now have Skype in […]

Well… April 1st, no kidding, I’m starting a new job. Some of you might have heard of my new employer who’s logo you can admire here on the left
At the moment I am at a new employee training in London. What I’ve seen so far is a company with clear goals […]

The election results are in, which means that we have a new board. With some luck this’ll be the board that will take SqF to some “official” form, now that we have the budget and the decision to start incorporating in California.

In any case - I’m happy to serve another term. The Squeak Community […]

Well, a bit more than doodling -Oekaki is wildly popular and I take my hat off to the artists. Since I have a Wacom tablet, drawing and playing with the Gimp has become loads more fun, but I still can’t produce anything decent .

Anyway, I was chatting with someone and text wasn’t enough, […]

An interesting comparison between ODB and RDB. I can only agree with most points and add my two cents.
The most important - because user-visible - argument heard against ODB’s is the lack of a query language, or these days more the lack of a OJDBC+SQL interface. The reason being that “the user is otherwise not […]

A quicky - not about to do full movie reviews on my blog, but I liked Das Parfum by Süskind a lot when I read it, and finally Hollywood dared to make a movie out of it.
Like the book, movie is out of the ordinary, slightly disturbing, and definitely worth a view.