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Ideas, Ideas, Ideas

In this past days I have been playing with a lot of ideas that are clouding my mind… I am in the search of doing a nice project after many attempts to be working together with people on many different projects that seemed not to have any momentum on them (if I didn’t put more energy that I could possibly put in).

Basically I left those initiatives parked for the moment letting my thoughts wander (and wonder) around in the search of enlightenment. The software world is big, actually to big to grasp with the simple thought of a common practitioner. What is going to be the next big thing?

My ethics tell me that code should be free, available to everyone that wants to look at it. There is nothing better to be working with a program (or library) that you can actually look into, see how it was written and even, in some cases, correct a problem or adapt it to your particular needs.

Some people write free software to boost their egos, others to bust some giant, which is most of the time just wishful thinking (although in some cases it works). I personally think software should be written to help the user, the people that actually use your software. Of course this can be combined with the notion of coding as a service. I would see something like this in the sense I will code this application for you as a service for X amount, but everything but your real domain should stay free and available to the community (say because you could extract a common way of doing something in your application to a common set of libraries that has nothing to do with the problem domain of your customer).

So what am I actually after? I really don’t know yet, there are many ideas in my brain that range from the simpler ideas of creating management tools for distributed (or collocated) teams to creating some sort of AI agents that will help you with common day to day computerized tasks. The sky is the limit as they say, so I will keep on searching for that little (or big) project that will tickle me sufficiently so that it drives me actually to do that next big thing…

If you have any ideas drop me a line, I am open for nice ideas

iPhone 3g

I finally got the iPhone on the first day!

Last year I missed the premiere of the iPhone, but this year I didn’t want it to happen again…

Now I am a proud iPhone 3g owner and I can say that for the moment I am really delighted with it.

Cheers!

Spielberg, Spielberg, Spielberg…

I have always loved Indiana Jones movies, they gave me always this feeling of adventure in the past, where this archeologiest/adventurer tries to save artifacts from the past fighting against enemies right and left (most of the times Nazi’s).

So I decided to go with my son on his birthday to see the last installment of this saga; Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

To be honest, I had a mixture of “I love it” and “I hate it” during the movie. It was great to see Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones again, older, and not pretending to be the young man he once was, but on the other hand, Steve Spielberg did it again…

WARNING SPOILER ALARM!!!

I really don´t understand why Steven Spielberg has to make movies where there is an alien presence of some kind. E.T. was great, no doubt about it, but what goes to far goes to far. It reminded me a bit to A.I., which is a great movie, but he destroys it completely at the end where the aliens come to the earth and wonder about the child robot… Well, he did it again… Why not make a version of Schindler’s List with an Alien in it?

The relativity of time

Due to my recent birthday I started thinking about time and the time zones we live in…

I was thinking that it is quite odd when you live in another time zone (different from the one you where born) and are about to have your birthday.

Imagine this situation: It is the 10th of May and you where born on the 11th. As it happens you where born on another time zone, let’s say one in which they are one hour in advance. Wouldn’t this mean that your birthday will start on that same very day at 11 pm? To be fair you where not born on the 11th of the current time zone, but on the 11th of the one that lives one hour in the future of you.

Maybe this means, in this globalized world, where we are born in one country, but end up living in a different one, that we should consider the time zones when calculating this kind of things (birthdays, exceptional events we lived, etc)…

Nevertheless, this is just a thought that crossed my mind…

Any comments?

Yuck!