EVOL.reverse

About two years ago I was doing kung-fu regularly and my energy levels were at the top. I felt like I could do anything in this world. I was having a vegetarian diet and life just seemed good. That’s the energy that led me to take on a new challenging job in Lisbon and after a year changing to Germany and experiencing life abroad for a while. That’s the energy I need to revive.

VD, I’d love to know more about what led you to write this. I would think Sun is definitely on the bandwagon of grid computing and powering many companies and startups that together make the “Computer is the network” thing true. Sometimes by providing hardware but also by being behind the curtains of software that is used by them: MySQL, Java, Netbeans, VirtualBox, etc… and OpenOffice for which you seem to contribute.

Via this site:

“The new web is moving beyond connecting pages to interconnecting data objects, concepts, and things. Ultimately Web 3.0 is really about creating technology that more accurately mirrors how we see and think about the world around us.”

• Attention. “Applications that are smartest at competing for our attention—or at helping us understand what we should be paying attention to—will have a distinct advantage in the web 3.0 world”.
• Agents. “As just one small example, you tell it that you want to be kept abreast of upcoming social media events, and it checks Upcoming.org, Facebook, Evite, Meetup, etc. and shares with you the events it finds, allowing you to sign up for them through its own interface.”
• RSS. “Content syndication will be at the heart of web 3.0. It empowers almost everything I’ve been talking about in this post to some extent. Don’t sell it short. Look for ways to use it and build applications around it.”
• Semantic Web. “What if there was a way, for instance, that my blogging software could understand that what I was writing about—in plain English—was an event I was trying to promote, and could translate that information so that it could automatically be shared with Upcoming, Evite, Eventbrite, Facebook, etc.?”

This is a cool poster illustrating the use of Agile methodologies in software development.

Yesterday we went on a visit to GSI, a research center that features a particle accelerator. We were welcomed by Dr. Abel Blazevic, a physicist working there, that gave us a presentation about the place and the research. After that we went on a tour around the campus. The place is very interesting, everything seems very custom made, almost as a big garage full of inventions put together. The scenario of a science fiction movie put to live. The highlight of the visit was this sphere (I won’t risk explaining what the sphere is for), every tube that composes part of it costs around 50.000 euros and was provided by a different country. Now that’s impressive.