• Glastonbury weather 🙁

    I guess it wouldn’t be a Glastonbury festival if it didn’t rain 🙁 It appears that showers are forecast for the weekend, even though it’s beautiful and clear now. I just hope that we won’t have to fight through the mud again (camera got wet in 2008, 2007 photos 1, 2007 photos 2, I didn’t…

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  • Zentity @ the “Repository Systems” workshop and Glastonbury

    I am writing this while on a plane to London and then to Frankfurt. I am going to Germany to visit relatives for a day, close to Manheim, before heading to Munich to give a talk about Zentity at the “Repository Systems” workshop. Then, on Thursday I am going to flight back to London and…

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  • 48h film project – Filming on location

    The shooting of our 48h film project entry was amazing (check out my previous post). On Friday, David (the director) and Arthur (the script writer) met with the rest of the teams to find out (through a draw) the genre of the film that we had to shoot plus the name of a character, a…

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  • At the Semantic Technologies conference

    I just arrived in San Jose for the Semantic Technologies conference. It’s been a while since I’ve been to a conference on a subject that I am VERY excited about so I do hope that the program is interesting. I am going to be at the Microsoft booth as well to demo Zentity and talk…

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  • The 48 hour film project

    My friend David is very much into film directing. While he was taking classes, he asked me to act in his film projects with his wife Sophie in the first one and other friends in the second one. It was a looooooot of fun and we even shot the “making of” :-))) Last year, David…

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  • Good read: “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data”

    I enjoyed reading the “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data” article by Alon Halevy, Peter Norvig, and Fernando Pereira of Google. Recommended.

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  • My parents’ visit

    It’s been a week since my parents left (they visited for 30 days). It was great having them around. If you’ve been following my twitter updates, you’d probably know that it was a bit hectic trying to balance work, parents, and a bit of social life. No matter how crazy life was, though, it was…

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  • Double WOW…

    I would ordinary have included this as an update to my previous post about Microsoft‘s Project “Natal” but I am soooo excited about the potential of the technology that I am posting a new entry. Double WOW WOW!!! I know that when Microsoft shoots a video and says that it’s not made up, they really…

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  • My new “toy”: BMW R1200GS

    Remember about a couple of years ago when I was considering to buy a motorbike? Few months later I went through a safety course and got my US rider endorsement. Then, last year I came very close to buying the 2008 BMW R1200GS (even put down a deposit) but then I decided that it was…

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  • Wow… “The controller is you”

    Now, this is very cool. Even if half of what’s on the video is actually real, it’s still very exciting. This should be the way we interact with technology all around us. Wayyyyyy cool (and I am not just saying because it’s Microsoft’‘s upcoming addition to the living room). Via Engadget.

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