Entries Tagged 'everyday life' ↓
July 4th, 2008 — everyday life, happy
Playing at night with marten or a story why Twitter is so great.
People often ask me what is the value of constantly checking status of other people and updating mine. After doing this for a while in a group of friends you start getting completely new experience that makes the whole effort more than worth it.
Today it started with twit from @klemenrobnik at about midnight, with a short message that he is playing with his marten:
This turned out to be much more exciting as it seems at first. This marten is just a few months old and pretty wild. This was actually her nightly exercise in the wild. In a few weeks it’s going to a farm where it’s going to live in nature.
It actually proved quite challenging taking pictures of her with only Blackberry as it could not match the speed and interest of the general world. This is one of the rare times that built-in flash turned to be actually useful.
June 11th, 2008 — conferences, everyday life
It seems I’m a bit fanatical about social events related to tech and especially web 2.0 scene. So here are a few in Slovenia and around that you probably want to go to:
11th of June - Spletne urice goodbye party 2008 - http://web.zen.si/archives/2008/06/spletne-urice-88-goodbye-party-2008/
19th of June - CAFE BABE: Search and Findability, a Java developers oriented event, should be announced on http://www.kiberpipa.org a few days before the event
20-21th of June - Blogres, the Slovenian Blogging conference - http://www.blogres.si/
21th of June - Webmaster picnic - http://www.internetmojster.com/piknik/
24th of June - Firefox 3 Release Party - http://www.kiberpipa.org/firefox/
5th of July - PHP conference - http://phpkonferenca.si/
18-20th of July - Slo-Tech NEST, LAN party together with a lot of high quality lectures and workshops - http://slo-tech.com/ostalo/dogodki/nest2008/
Leave a comment if you know/organize any other events.
May 28th, 2008 — conferences, everyday life, ideas
Tonight I had a chance to visit Bloggers Delight meetup, sponsored by Berocca - a sort of vitamin tablets. They are trying to get more engaged in “social media” scene. They gave out free samples of their stuff, so while I’ve never heard of their brand I’m going to try it out and maybe this will become my preferred power booster of choice when I’m on not on the continent.
I’ve also met a lot of really interesting people. I’ll write about the ones I have Moo cards of, please correct me in comments if I say something wrong or want me to link somewhere else.
Lisa Lam is blogging at U-Handbag, site that specializes in handbag making supplies.
Julius Solaris is running one of the biggest blogs on Events and how to manage them. This is certainly something I’m interested in since I’m attending lots of events.
Illandancient is blogging about little known bands. Should have something nice and obscure for music lovers out there.
Chris Applegate is one of the masterminds behind the campaign, but also blogs at the qwghlm which seems that’s a lot about social media and UK scene.
Tom Phillips writes lots of cool stuff in his blog, while he’s not working as a real-life journalist.
Cedric Chambaz is “A mountain Dweller in the Thames Valley“, where he writes about cultural differences.
Linda Hartley is a great Flickr enthusiast and runs a number of exciting flickr groups, like classroom displays.
The Londoneer is traveling around the London and country, taking pictures and writing about things he sees. Really exciting blog.
Franco Lebanese is another blog about cultural differences, this time between France and Lebanon.
Xavier was also there, talking about his startup - Commentag - widget to sort discussions on your blog.
May 16th, 2008 — Planet Kiberpipa, Planet LiveCD, Tech, conferences, everyday life, ideas
Yesterday Metropol opened another hi-tech art installation, this time from Robertina Šebjanič produced by Daša Lakner for Kiberpipa Err0r group with title Pufination. The art piece is about pufies, 4 robots that communicate with each other and try to do everything to attract observers attention.
They blink, change color, wiggle, make sounds and are all together attention grabbing. Overall effect is very good with lots of visitors almost unable to walk away because of sudden emotional attachment.
Here is what artist wrote about her piece:
Pufis represent microorganisms living in an open ecosystem, while the collection of objects functions as a sensitive sensory network. The visitor is subsumed into the artificially produced »biosphere« through active sensor-based interaction. Pufination is incomplete without interaction. There’s no leading role, we’re all just cohabiting. The project thus highlights our relationship to other life as an important factor to every individual’s own survival. In Pufination, we find ourselves inside a simulated projection of our everyday. Decentralised control, close stimulus response and adherence to simple rules – this is what links robots and visitors in the Pufination.
Pufi robots are based on the Arduino platform. They communicate with each other by a wireless network and with people by touch, sound, light and vibration.
Full installation credits:
Idea, concept, design: Robertina Šebjanič
Programming, advice: Luka Frelih
Technical realization: Alojzij Sinur and Janž Verbančič
Production lead: Daša Lakner
Produced by: Cyberpipe (Err0r)
February 10th, 2008 — Planet Kiberpipa, Planet LiveCD, everyday life, time wasters
Some time ago I found the page poster child mario question blocks, which describes the process of creating real world mario objects. Months passed by and one day I decided that our hacklab Cyberpipe needs a block too. My brother Peter to the rescue, and we got our first block:
Uroš thinking I’m crazy for being amused with this cube
But then a few days ago I was wondering around old part of Ljubljana city center and I noticed that someone else had to have similar ideas quite some time ago:
There you go, proof that Slovenians know some Nintendo history.
