Ocrampal's blog

Evolution is a complicated beast. It seems so easy, yet there is no formula, no theorem, just a description of a phenomenon. This does not mean that the description is wrong, it means we are just scratching the surface of something much deeper than we currently know.

This article presents an interesting spin to the subject. 

- How the software industry is changing.
- How to look for applications.
- How to improve your programming skills, from a theoretical point of view.

I spent a few days configuring my new Acer Revo 3610. I installed Ubuntu 9.10, Boxee, UbuntuwinTV and Minitube (among other more mundane stuff).

I had to figure out how to fix the sound and the screen resolution, because I am using an HDMI cable to connect the Revo to the Samsung LCD TV.

I have been experimenting trying to integrate this site (powered by Drupal) with Facebook and Twitter. The Idea is to let my friends comment here using their accounts on those (and other) platforms.

So far I have not had much luck, because the FB module for Drupal cannot handle FB usernames, so if you commented here, your comment would appear as xxxx@facebook.com; the Twitter module, is still buggy and it seems that development has halted lately (hopefully I am wrong).

I was invited to give a talk at Bristol Meyer Squibb for a Marketing Seminar in Paris. The idea was to give a sense of the change happening on the Net/Web, how it affects corporations and what can be done about it. 

It was an opportunity to formalize some of my thoughts; if you're interested, the presentation is attached. It is a high level overview, nothing specific. The objective was to explain how fast technology is changing everything.

I was interviewed while attending the conference: How and Why of Promoting Entrepreneurship Abroad. The conference was sponsored by the Hoover Institution and the Kauffman Foundation. Richard Boly organized the event at Stanford. The interview is about Italy.

Update: I spent 3 great weeks in Pisa working on an interesting project: "A social network of cellular automata". Here I present the project to Stephen Wolfram:

And this is a nice CA rule.

I'll spend the next 3 weeks in Pisa, Italy, attending the "A New Kind of Science" Summer School.

Save complications from a nasty Chickenpox (Varicella), and if I do not scratch too much, I'll be attending the Living Technology Workshop in Odense, Denmark (March 17-18).

When I get well I'll have to prepare a 10 minutes presentation.