Month: July 2010

Pukkelpop 2010

If there is one place to be on August 19, 20, and 21st this year, it’s Pukkelpop 2010.  Pukkelpop is the largest alternative music festival in Europe, with an amazing list of bands coming to perform this year and without tens of thousands of fans gathering from the whole world.  Here are just some of the bands in the line-up for this August: Placebo, Iron Maiden, The Prodigy, Blink-182, Limp Bizkit, NOFX, Bad Religion, Gogol Bordello …

I’m sure this year it will a party like no other – Pukkelpop is celebrating its 25th year!  Happy birthday, Pukkelpop!

P.S.: Why am I so excited about the music festival somewhere in Belgium?  Because I was there last year and it was quite an experience.  Events of this magnitude don’t happen every year and if you get to attend one – that’s a life-time experience.

P.P.S: No, unfortunately I won’t be able to make it this year.

Day in brief

Presentation is everything

The following video is one of the excellent examples of how important the presentation is.  I’ve been told a billion times, and I’ve said it myself a few more, that nobody cares about the work you’ve done until it looks good.  Yes, sure you can get a few geeky friends to take a look and appreciate the smart algorithm or an elegant solution to the problem.  But if you want to make it big time – work on the packaging of your work as much, if not more than on the actual result itself.  If in doubt, watch the video.  If not – watch it anyway.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9J1b3MqiX8]

By the way, one other thing I want to point out about eating the food someone else cooked – if you are not sure you can handle the truth, don’t ask for it.

Via you are not as smart as you think you are.