November 2008
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http://tinyurl.com/pattern-seeking-genius
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Is there such a thing as pure genius? →
This article over at Guardian is an excerpt from “Outliers - The Story of Success”, the new book from Malcolm Gladwell, my favorite pattern-seeker, a.k.a. the author of best-selling books “The Tipping Point” and “Blink”.
The book is an account and analysis of people we tend to consider outstanding, if not geniuses - people like Mozart, The Beatles, Bill...
want to read: Outliers
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The Last Lecture of Randy Pausch: Really Achieving...
If you haven’t watched this video, the so-called “last lecture” by the Carnegie Mellon professor Randy Pausch, I strongly recommend you that you do. I’m pretty sure it will be a time well spent.
Pausch delivered his “Last Lecture,” titled “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams,” at Carnegie Mellon on September 18, 2007. This talk was modeled...
http://tinyurl.com/palin-turkey-interview
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had excellent Slava food, disco fitness, shower, and finally - bed!
is done eating his keyboard for today. Time to eat something proper now…
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pragmatic yet geeky software development: writing code that generates code for a code generator. :-)
sleep deprived
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Yahoo's Yang decides he's no longer the right CEO →
Emotional detachment from Yahoo! forced onto its co-founder Jerry Yang by the inevitable power of the market… and Microsoft.
Gotta get moving like this guys fingers across the keyboard. :-) Ready, steady, GO! ♫ http://blip.fm/~ry7x
Lazy drum groove for the late night hours… and soulful sax jazzin’ it up. ♫ http://blip.fm/~rtk9
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Barry Miles and Silverlight - Los Viajeros (The...
has his Slava today. :-)
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Use Google Chrome and Gmail for mailto: links
Here’s a useful tip for all of you internet power users…
Go through these questions first.
Are you using GMail to send (most if not all of) your mails?
Are you using Google Chrome under Windows as your default web browser?
Would you link your GMail’s compose mail dialog to popup whenever you click an email link (those beginning with mailto: instead of http:)?
If you score...
got my twitterank.com (93.24) and my Twitter password changed. If you Twitterank yourself, you better do the same.
Serbs mastering Beijing Tennis Masters and I missed all final matches. :-)
survived (easily) another tough week. Recovering with a Darkwood Dub concert now and Nintendo Wii tomorrow. :-)
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The real (T-Mobile) G1 experience and what the...
Read about marketing and tech support errors committed by T-Mobile around the release of G1 mobile phone in the UK and what can industry learn from them.
[via MEX - the strategy forum for mobile user experience]
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Google Talk adds video and talks in languages...
In case you’re not following fresh news for every single piece of software, you should be interested in what’s new in Google Talk (a.k.a. GTalk).
Yesterday, Google has unveiled a great new feature - video chat. No more a plugin is needed for video with your GTalk voice session (if you knew about the existence of such plugins at all). It has yet to be seen how Skype/EBay will cope...
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living in http://tinyurl.com/eu-capital-of-cool :-)
http://tinyurl.com/obama-disrupts-history
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watching US presidential election statistics and visuals on #CNN
Idea: the next US elections should include voters in all 200+ unincorporated territories, i.e. countries where US has vested interest in.
2h14min after the first polls have closed it appears that Obama will win easily. GoBama!
Wow! Reporter calling in via hologram on #CNN :-)
Go Obama, yo mama!
another day of Indian summer in Belgrade had to lead to a bike ride to Ada Lake and back. :-)
enjoyed the “so good” concert by Ben Westbeech last night. Meet dear friends, watched kids breaking, doing windmills, flips and stuff… :-)
October 2008
42 posts
enjoyed doing the presentation on REST, Web 2.0 apps and services yesterday. Arriving online soon…