Travelling, and not Arriving

          ... a good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving... (Lao Tzu)

Posts from December 2007

Scary GMail Christmas stories….

Before reading the linked story, please, check your GMail filters! Do you see anything unusual?
What would you do if a criminal stole something very personal, and very valuable from you?
What if they were able to target your business and criple your income?
You wouldn’t be too happy now, would you?
What if you also discovered that [...]


Noordwijk aan Zee

Noordwijk aan Zee, Netherlands, North Sea


Volkenkunde Museum, Leiden

On my way to Antwerp, I stopped for a day in Leiden, where I visited the Volkenkunde Museum. I’ll upload other pictures of the exposition here later this week.


The Adobe Vs Sun debate (aka Lessions learnt at a keynote)

It’s a common known fact that most of the conference keynotes are quite boring, commercial and (unfortunately) inevitable presentations that have the only purpose of announcing the latest and greatest news from the sponsoring companies; more seldom, something interesting happens: that’s the case of last Thursday’s Javapolis keynote.
The schedule looked like quite innocent:

Thinking in Flex [...]


Pointy update from Javapolis, Antwerpen

I’m starting to like this pointy-update style; I’m definitely too lazy to write a full post, or complete one of the several draft sleeping in my Wordpress database, so that’s the simplest way to write down what’s happening lately.

I hit the road last Sunday, in the early morning, for Leiden, where I spent the day [...]