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Oh! I didn’t know all these existed in the early days. I feel betrayed. I only remember Donkey Kong’s bananas. May be now is a good time to catch up

Hisham at work discovered by coincidence this marvel. The website has a huge collection of, “images from bygone days” for my homecity (and others). Just wonderful. I really appreciate the effort that is being done by the owners to preserve such marvelous collection. A wonderful compensation for that time camera I wanted to have, and a strong reminder of...

What an idea! A documentary about a group of interns at Fog Creek, during a real world assignment of designing, developing and delivering Copilot in 12 weeks. Boondoggle Films presents a journey through the world of software development from the perspective of a unique upstart, four quirky interns, and the world of The Geek. Aardvark’d: 12 Weeks with Geeks...

I’m off to Cairo for some RPG training. Although, I’m not quite convinced with the language, but it is always nice to see how things perform. Besides… it’s kind of a company training policy.

I want to have one of those “Time Cameras” I once read about in one of the comic books (Mickey Mouse) :-). Living in a cultural cross roads country where many cultures have met, shared, collided or died is definitely exotic. The daily trip to work (45 min ride) involves passing through many old neighborhoods of the city.There, ONCE...

It looks like there’s a relation between application developers and classical music composers 🙂 I’ve haven’t any info to tie up both, but after listening to some of my old favorites, it’s becoming clearer. Many composers have had compositions that resembles the number of decently developed apps in ones life. A musical composition resembles a software project with a...

I finally was able to avoid the temptation of NOT writing on this blog 🙂 Spending too many hours staring at a monitor and working my fingers around a keyboard for a an approaching release has made it more difficult just to WANT to be around any form of technology 🙂 But, here I am again. I’ve been wanting...

It seems that when posting with w.bloggar (version 3.x at least) all my comments settings were adjusted to “Allow comments for 7 day” on the postings. When checking with the JRoller editor, comments setting were defaulted to “allow comments for unlimited days” Had a quick look on w.bloggar’s forums, but was not mentioned. Any suggestions?

Breaking the silence (long time no post). I came across an insightful post (/.) about geek management (by geek managers). It listed a lot of wonderful experiences and books. Hope I had more time for thorough read, enjoy!

This post is a modest contribution to the relief efforts by providing a link to the The Southeast Asia Earthquake and Tsunami blog for “News and information about resources, aid, donations and volunteer efforts.” And a shortlist of links to Aid Groups provided by CNN. Today, the death toll is at 77000+ Our condolences for those who lost their...