February 2012
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January 2012
3 posts
“The good thing about reinventing the wheel is that you can get a round one.”
“Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self esteem, first make sure...”
– William Gibson
December 2011
6 posts
“Of course, like all over-simple classifications of this type, the dichotomy...”
– Isaiah Berlin, The Hedgehog and the Fox
Major Flashback
Out Run.
“The true cook is the perfect blend, the only perfect blend, of artist and...”
– Norman Douglas
“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to...”
– Henry David Thoreau
“You know how the time flies
Only yesterday was the time of our lives
We were...”
– Adele
November 2011
6 posts
“To the past, or to the future.
To an age when thought is free.
From the Age of...”
– Winston in George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four”
October 2011
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Here's to the crazy ones
Here’s to the crazy ones.
The misfits.
The rebels.
The troublemakers.
The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently.
They’re not fond of rules.
And they have no respect for the status quo.
You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them.
About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them.
Because they change things.
They invent.
They imagine.
...
September 2011
3 posts
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Eargasm
Alicia Keys, “New York”
August 2011
11 posts
Pushing the envelope with GMail
Received the following messages from GMail today, a few seconds from each other:
“Permanently delete 80944 conversations from Trash?”
“Oops… the system encountered a problem (#767) - Retrying now”
Temporary Error (503): We’re sorry, but your Gmail account is temporarily unavailable.
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A long time ago, in a living room far far away
“If it was important, your phone would have rung. Now get back to work.”
– @mperedim
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July 2011
6 posts
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The Greek Crisis
A lot of friends abroad ask me the same question: “What has led up to the current financially hard situation in Greece?”. I found this excellent article from NY Times called “Can Greeks Become Germans?”, which summarizes the problem in a very detailed way. I’ll quote some large sections here, for reference.
[…] Germany is the epitome of a country that made...
“If @transifex ever entered the Linux desktop, the first thing I’d...”
– https://twitter.com/#!/glezos/status/93335171264286721
Brainstorming design mockups at summer seaside café
June 2011
11 posts
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“Thumbs up if you’re watching this in 2023 and you’re a time...”
– Comment on YouTube video
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“Greece was the ultimate bubble, and most of society was content with that — the...”
– Alex Christoforou (@alexwadja) on Mashable
“A woman’s shoulders are the front lines of her mystique, and her neck, if...”
– John Milton, The Devil’s Advocate
“So I guess this is where I tell you what I learned - my conclusion, right? Well,...”
– Danny Vinyard, American History X
“Arrived in San Francisco. My startup’s value just doubled.”
May 2011
5 posts
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Dark sailing weather
Keynote at the MeeGo Conference
I had the privilege to be invited to the opening keynote talk at the recent MeeGo Conference in San Francisco. Jim Zemlin, the Director of Linux Foundation, called me on stage to talk about MeeGo Localization and the acceleration of MeeGo’s availability in dozens of markets around the world we achieved with Transifex.
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