So I’ve been to Matteo and Flavia’s wedding, and it’s been amazing. The wedding was on Saturday night. I got to Vitória the same day and spent half the afternoon by the pool on the roof of our hotel, together with the groom (meanwhile the bride was relaxing in a spa), then we dressed up and 7pm went to the place. No church, just a restaurant organized as a ceremonial room, with a small ritual table in the middle of several dinner tables. No grand-pa/mas in sight. Just the four parents and about fifteen pairs of uncle-aunts. Average age was in the 30-35 range. Men were dressed with a dark suit, while ladies had a long soirée dress. Lots of ladies. Gorgeous. Read the rest of this entry »
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So I’m going to Brazil again. I’m currently blogging from the Charle De Gaulle airport in Paris, on my way to Rio de Janeiro. I didn’t remember this airport is so ugly. The embarking area doesn’t even have a restaurant. I have to wait here three hour for the connection flight, and I’m bored to death.
Anyways, this time I’m going to visit the city of Vitória and to attend a Brazillian wedding! Stay tuned.
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Yesterday I got my brand new Sony Vaio, a VGN-C2S. I’m very glad they gave me the silver version rather than the pink one! While I was still unpacking it, the guy who brought it started to say: don’t worry, we already removed Vista and installed XP Professional instead. I thought he was joking: Please??. Well, everybody knows Vista is broken so people don’t want it. But don’t worry, XP works flawlessly on this laptop.
So I began to configure it. Everything worked except Internet Explorer that couldn’t load any page, complaining about DNS problems. The fact is all other applications – including Outlook – worked and ping in a command window confirmed DNS configuration was OK. How can you call this flawless? And I wouldn’t care about IE, but of course without it I had no way to download Firefox or anything else!
Trust me, getting started a computer has never been so hard in my life.
After unsuccessfully twiddling several hours with all possible configurations including firewall and Internet preferences, reading articles on the web, and whatever came to my mind, I gave up and installed a Gentoo. Aaahh. I’m so relaxed now.
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This weekend I’ve been to PyCon Uno, the first italian conference dedicated to the Python programming language. It’s been very interesting, in particular Alex Martelli’s keynote on managing the tech development and a presentation on sqlalchemy, but this post is not about the conference.
Marco Pesenti Gritti’s final keynote was about One Laptop Per Child, a project to bring a low cost computer to children in those third world countries where the benefits of worldwide information and education technology would be otherwise impossible. With the help of UN and MIT, they are trying to build a 100$ book-size laptop with a 1200×900 colour display and consuming just about 2W. It’s going to be developed using open source software only, and to use Python and GTK+ to develop a revolutionary environment that discards the desktop/office metaphor and puts emphasis on children activities. Several states already joined the project and did preliminary testing on some of their schools.
I think they did a very good job and hope this is going to be a great success.
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Is there anybody out there who doesn’t know who Steve Jobs and Bill Gates are? Everybody and his brother know that they are the leaders of Apple and Microsoft and have been dominating the personal computer industry for the last 30 years. In all of this time, they’ve been very careful to appear together very rarely, but last Wednesday they shared the stage at the D: All things Digital conference. They chatted about how the industry evolved during their kingdom and talked about how they think our digital future is going to be. A warm and friendly chat, like a get together for long-standing friends who finally relax and nostalgically recall the common past. But wait, look at the picture, is that a real smile? Read the rest of this entry »
