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  Stef 1:59 am on 15 January, 2013 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: amazon ( 2 ), car, design ( 3 ), laptop, weird, wheel   

  Car dashboards are ready for disruption 

  

  The Wheelmate Laptop Steering Wheel Desk on Amazon seems like a joke but I believe it highlights how bad the dashboards of current cars are. I drive rarely but when I do I realize that in normal cars there is no easy way to take a fast note on a laptop *while parked* after a meeting. There is a place to put your travel mug, all sort of electric outlets and adapters but no retractable desk, not even for the passenger/shotgun seat. I think dashboards are ready for disruption.

  PS comments and pictures on Amazon are hilarious

   
   

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  stefano 10:00 am on 7 October, 2012 Permalink | Reply  

  Week 2012-10-07 in review 

  • OpenStack Swift community meeting starting in 45 minutes, on IRC: #openstack meeting http://t.co/MfIYya69 #
  • oh, @firefox, why is your Password Manager so useful and so *bad* at the same time? I hate it when it fails to remember passwords! #
   
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  stefano 10:00 am on 30 September, 2012 Permalink | Reply  

  Week 2012-09-30 in review 

  • Stay with ATT and their *awful* rip-off plans or go back to more honest-less coverage TMobile? #dilemma #
  • RT @fattoquotidiano: Lazio, #Polverini si è dimessa
    Anche l'Udc le toglie la fiducia http://t.co/OJ60xxfw < manica di buffoni disonesti #
  • Looking at the numbers of developers that contributed to OpenStack Folsom! OMG can that number be right? Won't disclose until triple checked #
  • OH on irc: <ttx> OpenStack 2012.2 ("Folsom") is out, great job everyone #
  • OpenStack Folsom Is Here With The Schedule Of The Summit http://t.co/r8H0Nu4f #
  • Do you know somebody that drives a Hummer with 'HACK GNU' license plate? http://t.co/y2uEg5LS #
  • Feedback needed for the OpenStack integration project. Details on: Providing a Unified View of OpenStack Projects http://t.co/bxr7jDLy #
  • Prof. Michele Boldrin is my hero: his research shows that *all* patents are bad for economy. Nice. http://t.co/4jU9qKKj #
   
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  stefano 10:00 am on 23 September, 2012 Permalink | Reply  

  Week 2012-09-23 in review 

  • The truth is that people don't read. No matter how short or simple is your message, people just don't read it #frustration #
  • If your email to my http://t.co/hY5B3ZS1 address bounced (over quota) try again now, problem fixed. #
  • It's time to buy a new laptop. It needs to be very light and support GNU/Linux 100%, with 2+ years service warranty. Suggestions? #
  • What? Maps continues to suck in iOS 6? Why upgrade then? No thanks, will stay with JB 5.1 http://t.co/aNiaPDNB #
  • Complete failure of San Francisco taxi system today. Even Über was no help, almost missed my flight #fail #
  • Welcome OpenStack by openSUSE community: http://t.co/CGnMGuAZ #ossum2012 #openstack #
  • Thank you openSUSE community for the warm welcome. Join the OpenStack Foundation and check out the job openings http://t.co/zSY55Ssx… #
  • Bitergia released the preliminary study of who's contributing to #OpenStack Folsom http://t.co/U7iht9Gd Comments? #
   
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  stefano 10:00 am on 16 September, 2012 Permalink | Reply  

  Week 2012-09-16 in review 

  • Task of the day: Vote for presentations at OpenStack Summit http://t.co/LxQG6psh #
  • Sanjiva and I would love to have your vote for this session: advanced way to look at open source metrics http://t.co/x16mRzwG #OpenStack #
  • http://t.co/kpdjWegY is so annoying: I can't contact more than 3 meetup groups per day. Seriously? #
  • Working with @Bitergia on reports #OpenStack developer's community: errors aside what do you think of preliminary data? http://t.co/rWdWrzCa #
  • stupid #airfare tariffs: two legs, one throw away $1500, open-jaw ticket, no waste $3500. Why? Idiots! #
   
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  stefano 10:00 am on 9 September, 2012 Permalink | Reply  

  Week 2012-09-09 in review 

  • last time a candidate president used his success in business to get elected, Italy ended up with Berlusconi. USA friends be warned. #
  • Three weeks without gluten, sugars, caffeine and alcohol. Day 1 and I'm already cranky. #

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    Andy 3:03 am on 13 September, 2012 Permalink | Reply

    “•Three weeks without gluten, sugars, caffeine and alcohol. Day 1 and I’m already cranky”

    Why? Have you gone insane or something? At least keep the alcohol!

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      Stef 10:18 pm on 15 September, 2012 Permalink | Reply

      Nope, can’t touch any of that. Trying to find out if I’m allergic or intolerant to any of that stuff. I’ll let you know the results in 2 weeks.

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  stefano 10:00 am on 2 September, 2012 Permalink | Reply  

  Week 2012-09-02 in review 

  • Stuck in SFO waiting for the aircraft to #cloudopen Hope not to miss @OpenStack party tonight #
  • It's insane that AT&T fails every time a few hundreds people gather for an event. And #cloudopen wifi is only marginally better #fail #
   
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  stefano 10:00 am on 26 August, 2012 Permalink | Reply  

  Week 2012-08-26 in review 

  • Just landed and already getting ready to pack for #CloudOpen Keynote panel at 9:30 on Wed http://t.co/psfDoZEr #
  • Wise sailor told me 'sailing is a humbling experience'. Look at Couts t-boning committee boat in front of the world http://t.co/wPU63UTR #
   
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  Stef 5:00 pm on 24 August, 2012 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: facebook ( 15 ), family, friends, privacy ( 29 )   

  Facebook, the social graph and peer pressure 

  I have stopped using Facebook months ago and following that decision I started cleaning up my list of ‘friends’. I removed from my list of ‘facebook friends’ all the people I don’t meet regularly, all the people that I don’t care about. I ended up with a very small list of close friends and family. Most of them are far away from San Francisco and don’t use Internet for anything but Facebook. I lurked on their life with a strange pleasure: I like getting pushed their updates, it keeps me close to them.

  Reading this post today The Boolean Graph by Kevin Rose I realized that I may be on the other hand of the spectrum. My social graph on FB is now relevant, with only people I really care about. Their silly pictures and jokes, comments to the news make sense to me and make me feel connected to them. Unfortunately none of them is interested in using Internet outside of the walled garden: they don’t consider starting a blog or email me regularly with their silly pictures.

  I’m thinking that probably I should start using FB more often again but I need a clear policy Is this bad?

   
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  stefano 10:00 am on 12 August, 2012 Permalink | Reply  

  Week 2012-08-12 in review 

  • the Big Bang Bundle by StoryBundle and the Humble Music Bundle: music and books to share with friends, no hassle http://t.co/Gm7RY5aJ #dbd #