Advent calendar
Originally uploaded by david.orban.
I have been recently contacted be a Museum of the city of Surrey in British Columbia, Canada. They were asking for permission to include my photo of a rather nice, and unusual advent calendar. Of course I complied eagerly, and asked about the nature of their ...
Remembering the heroism of our space explorers - 1
Originally uploaded by david.orban.
The space museum is closed. Not just closed, but in ruin, and abandon. Russia is a leader in the commercialization of its space infrastructure, as well as everything else it has, but in the meantime it forgot to keep ...
Pirates' market
Originally uploaded by david.orban.
Inside this market all types of software can be found on conveniently assembled CDs or DVDs. A typical price for a CD is 100 rubles ( about 4 dollars, or 3 euro), independently of the content. You can find the latest releases of Microsoft Windows Vista, ...
New apartment buildings
Originally uploaded by david.orban.
I am told these sell for five thousand dollars per square meter. No local with a normal job can afford them of course. Even if a lot of the local salaries come from unofficial sources. The real estate market with come back to earth, but ...
Signs of the past
Originally uploaded by david.orban.
The lingering signs of the communist era express the physical difficulty of parting with the past: be it monuments that praise principles not shared anymore, crumbling public housing, now sold at astronomical prices which make Moscow one of the most expensive cities in the ...
My russian illusions
Originally uploaded by nicointhebus.
I am leaving for Moscow tomorrow and will be there for the first time, spending a week mainly for business, but as usual with the hope of having some time to look around as well. Having been raised in Hungary in the '70s, where the ...
Al Shugart, founder of Seagate Technology, the leading hard disk manufacturer, died yesterday at 76. Shugart invented the technology behind the hard disks, starting from a a capacity at that time unbelievable of 5 MB, and built starting from scratch the company that brought them with a constant evolution, to ...
Lost in the city!
Well, there were a lot of adventures to be had driving the Segway around. We went to the supermarket, and shopped around, to the amusement of the other shoppers. We went to the restaurant, and, yes, the kids got lost. They were very cool about it. When ...
Segway at the eatery
Well, this went pretty well. Not only they didn't throw me out at the eatery, called Midì, where I go to have lunch, but actually were curious, and wanted to try the Segway themselves! As I entered I asked if they minded if I parked it inside, ...
Segway i2
For a few days, thanks to the friends at SCM I am testing the newly released Segway i2. I have already driven the old model, but I am glad to have the chance and test it at some length. My intention is that of bringing it everywhere, to see ...
@skebby I think you should switch to tweeting in English.. :)
At Polimi attending the meeting of the network od Milan area Tech Incubators http://www.reteincubatori.it http://twitpic.com/17vsob
Old Jews Telling Jokes is back! http://oldjewstellingjokes.com/
Mar 10th 2010
RT @xenijardin: National Hobo Ass'n: "Unlike tramps or bums, hoboes are usually very resourceful, self reliant, appreciative people." http://bit.ly/9PpiyZ
RT @Wolfram_Alpha: RT @WolframResearch: Congrats to #Wolfram's Theodore Gray, whose #PopSci Gray Matter column got an #ASME nomination! http://bit.ly/9loGKc
@rapportive why do you have to do a dns lookup when I click on outgoing links for a message? Slows things down a lot!
@PeterDiamandis Love the idea. ARGs are going to be huge soon, and gamification of healthcare is a perfect application!
RT @google: Coming soon to @GoogleBooks: up to 1m Italian classics, thanks to Italy's Ministry of Cultural Heritage http://bit.ly/bQ7YVB
@luigibaricelli yes, we are here. How can we help you? :) Sim, nós estamos aqui. Como podemos ajudá-lo?
Social Usability Checklist by @ibridazioni http://ibridazioni.com/2010/03/10/social-usability-checklist/
Danila Medvedev
Mar 9th 2010
@farnamstreet thanks! I subscribed to your rss
@climagic yesss! I knew you were out there somewhere in cyberspace :D
@andrewhessel Yes! My domain auto renewal notices trickle in in a constant stream of reminders of how much more I could still be doing..
@Folletto you just made me spend $20 on @macheist! If it were not such a great deal, and a very cool promo, I'd be annoyed :D
Pondering the ROI of preparing against all cognitive biases listed by Wikipedia http://bit.ly/9Tfk3m What do you say @michaelvassar?
I bought the Mac Heist bundle. 7 awesome Mac apps worth $260+ for just $20 and got 3 cool bonus apps free! http://bit.ly/heist-it
Posted 2 pictures to flickr.
Register for the free online Gov2.0 Conference on March 11! http://en.oreilly.com/gov2-international @gov2events
"University And Cyberspace: Reshaping Knowledge Institutions For The Networked Age" June 28-30 Torino http://bit.ly/9sYXXv
RT @zittrain: Who controls the historical record in the digital age? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kpur7yJ7EE
Recovered some lost files with the power of ... the Unix command line! So proud. #realmendontusemice
Still not done reading the special by @theeconomist on "The Data Deluge", and the "Technology Quarterly" of the new issue is here! QED
Posted 5 pictures to flickr.
@mdbraber Me too! Very excited to come and speak at #momoams ...
