][ stefano maffulli

Chatting with a colleague about ascii art, I ended up playing with GIMP from this pic.

Tags: asciiart, fun

Get this: Microsoft execs are desperately trying to reach kids and hipsters (pretending Windows is a cool brand) that they allow anybody to broadcast their tweets in the store window at legendary Saks on Fifth Avenue New York.
So here is your chance: tweet about software freedom, GNU, and Windows7sins using the #holidaywindows hashtag. And have [...]

Tags: freedom, fun, microsoft, twitter

OSCON 2009 was as good as I thought it would be. This year there was no mobile specific track but lots of talks about cloud computing. I met very interesting people, attaching faces and voices to email addresses and identi.ca accounts. The BoF about mobile cloud gave me the chance to discuss ideas with [...]

Tags: community, fun, funambol, oscon

Check this out: Funambol’s R&D department just released a prototype user interface for driving cars. According to my colleagues that drove it in Redwood City, it’s so easy to use, even a caveman can drive it. The vehicle smashes driving age limit with “snap” finger-powered steering; integrates cruise control with Google Latitude to automatically get [...]

Tags: fun, funambol, icar, iphone

To celebrate 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth and 150th anniversary of his book ‘Origins of the species’ the Open University setup a special site. I’ve played with their Devolve me game.

Tags: darwing, evolution, fun

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Rainman

This is how I’m dressed when it rains… well, it pours, for days like it happened last week. I hope that now winter is over and we will [...]

Tags: fun, mip, rain, school

Only real hackers consider improving what everybody else thinks is already optimal. At Funambol we like to do just that and we decided to improve the iPhone user interface:
Funambol, the company that is known for putting the “fun” back in the mobile business, today released a high contrast user interface for the widely used [...]

Tags: community, fun, funambol, iphone, mobile, ui

This Wordpress needed some maintainance, but this time instead of upgrading ‘manually’ I decided to use the Wordpress Automatic Upgrade Plugin: boy, it was fast and simple. It seems to be working fine.’  If you spot any glitches let me know. Now for me it’s time to go play with the RC minihelicopter and away [...]

Tags: fun, funambol, wordpress

Some months ago, during a boring train trip, I plaid iwth famous Janis Joplin’s song Oh lord (Mercedes Benz). Here is the outcome, I hope you like it:
Oh lord, would you teach me to hack gcc
my friends all can do it, I should know that too
please send Mike to my home to help debug routines
so [...]

Tags: fun, hack, lyrics, song

Buon Natale
Visto che mi è stato chiesto, approfitto e rispondo alle domande di Alessio:
Chi o cosa ti ha spinto a creare un blog?
Principalmente per esercitarmi a comunicare in modo breve e rapido. Non l’avevo mai fatto prima, a scuola raramente insegnano a fare riassunti e i temi più lunghi vengono premiati di più (almeno [...]

Tags: fun